Caleb Malhotra
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I think that would be a terrible bet for the Leafs, but I never bet against inefficient talent evaluations at the NHL level.
We see those shape the draft every single year.
No one thought Shane Wright was going to go to the Kraken at four, right?
Jesse Pouliarvi would go to the Oilers at four, right?
No one thought Pierre-Luc Dubois would go third.
I mean, we literally almost every single year see surprises at the very top of the draft.
People would have laughed at you the day after the draft lottery if you'd said that that was happening.
going third overall people would have laughed at you the day before the draft if you told them that that was happening so you know don't take to the bank that it's just gonna be mckenna stenberg one two right the the leafs have a weird set of considerations unusual set of considerations they should take mckenna in my opinion but we'll see what they do the san jose sharks have a ton of young forwards a ton of smallish forwards the the 510 winger right the the six foot skilled perimeter oriented winger like
Are we sure that they wouldn't take a defender in this draft class with four or five really good bets ahead of one of those two wingers?
Like you could be sitting at three and one of those guys that we don't expect to be there that we feel today like the Canucks lost out on could absolutely still be available when the Canucks are on the clock.
And by the way, one of those two guys could be there and the Canucks could still pass on them.
There's absolutely scenarios here, too, where the Canucks would take Malhotra over Ivers Stenberg.