Chris Peters

I watched him live that year.

I saw a player that was dominant, that had the puck all the time, that could really drive play.

And the USHL is difficult for anybody, but it's really difficult for 16-year-olds.

And I got to see Adam Fantilli do the same thing, basically, that Lawrence did.

at the same age at the at the Card Cup playoffs and and so that resonates with me a bit but what I will say is yes his projection for me has slipped and a lot of it has to do with what I saw from him in college and it wasn't that you know he didn't produce that didn't concern me as much because that didn't necessarily surprise me what does concern me a little bit more is

I saw indecisiveness.

I saw an inability to kind of make plays, the inability to process the game at pace.

And then when he went to the under-18 Worlds, I was expecting dominance, and we did not get that from him.

We didn't get that really from any of the Canadian players at the under-18 World Championship where, you know, they faltered and disappointed.

And so he slipped a bit, but I think the thing is that, you know, having seen him for the last two years and seen where he's at,

I'm not as concerned about some of the things I saw in college because he also was injured for a portion of the season.

So do I think he's going to slip?

I do, but I don't think he's going to slip terribly far just because he has a great skater, very good skill, has two-way capabilities, plays a pretty well-rounded game for his age.

And I think that he's a guy that we'll probably look at and he's producing at a very high level in college next year.

and we'll be back on track.

But, yeah, for me with him, it's much more about the body of work than the here and now.

But, yeah, you're also projecting a little bit off of that too, which can be dangerous.

Yeah, well, it's a really interesting proposition.

I mean, I think it's really going to depend on, you know, the distance between picks.

Because, you know, the weird thing is, is that to me, only one of them is a projected first rounder, you know.