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Its rather simple. At 5 OA you should be taking the best player available. Parekh won’t even be the best defenceman who will be available at 5 OA.
If the draft goes as it should the first three picks after Celebrini should be Demidov, Lindstrom and Levshunov. It would take a bold person indeed to take Parekh ahead of Dickinson, Buium or Iginla. In this writer’s opinion there are at least half a dozen other players, including Yakemchuk, Silayev, Catton and Sennecke who should (will) go before Parekh.
In following Beck’s progress this year, I have had the opportunity to watch Parekh’s level of play and in this writer’s opinion I have doubts about the transferability of his game to the NHL. I may be wrong. Perhaps with work, as you note, he can develop the skills necessary to play effectively in the NHL.
But at 5OA I want to draft a surer option. And the depth of this draft, particularly in the top, 10 offer much surer options than Parekh. Much surer. If we miss at 5 OA, we are setting back the pace and course of our rebuild significantly.
Well explained!
Hughes targeted hot trending players in Slaf and Reinbacher. Both with size and skating strengths. I think we are going to target someone with the same strategy.
Don't be surprised if we pass on Demidov and Lindstrom and take Iggy. I won't be. We did pass on Wright and Michkov who were deemed BPA by many (including myself).
Demidov has me confused a bit. I hear a lot of good things but I see a undersized forward. Would be a bold statement but who has the better NHL career? Iggy or Demidov? Most will say Demidov today and you can't blame them. Safe pick in terms of popular BPA talk but there is a part of me that wonders.... Is he Yakupov or is he one of Kucherov or Datsyuk. I don't have Demidov measured up with some of the Russian greats who has size to their resume.