Scott Wheeler

He's very competitive, but that's never going to be a hallmark of his game.

And it's not the hallmark of Klinghues' game or Kael McCarr's game or you go down the list.

But he needs to defend the rush at a really, really high level, which is what he did at lower levels.

And I think once that sort of comes and he figures that out, the offense will also come back the other way and he'll start playing with more confidence and being more assertive, both offensively and defensively.

And then I think you've got a potential star defenseman on your hands.

Yeah, there can be some pretty significant changes.

You'll, by and large, see most of the same names in those first two or three tiers year over year, and you'll maybe see movement within the tiers, but the tiers change.

pretty rarely change in terms of a guy dropping two, three tiers like David Yuracek has for me over the last year.

You can see the signs all along.

I was a little bit lower on Yuracek in his draft year.

He was sort of around 10 on my list when he went six overall.

And then it just sort of unraveled for him.

His footwork never got better.

His decision-making didn't.

at times became an issue, but really the boots and the pivots against the rush became a major, major problem for David.

And he just hasn't been able to improve it.

And I think as a result, you're looking now at a third pair PP two guy rather than a second pair PP one guy.

And that's a big difference, right?

So that's the difference between a three, $4 million defenseman and a seven, $8 million defenseman.

So there are guys who sort of hit walls, just don't get better.