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The top 15... some of them are a bit ???
Levshunov is smaller than Burns and I don't think has that kind of offensive potential... it's hard to give that guy a comparison because coaches will want to try to mold him to fit a playstyle in their system, so he could end up being a 30 or a 60 point player, depending on what coaches want him to do. He reminds me a lot of Adam Larsson, who was also pretty playdoh when NJ drafted him. His offensive ceiling is much higher than Larsson (that is, what Larsson's ended up being because he was molded to be a more rugged D who wins puck battles and makes breakout passes), but I think it strongly depends on his coach. If he's going to play next to, in Anaheim's case, one of their power play young guns on left side, he's probably going to just complement them.
Zeev plays more of an every-man game... like a Noah Dobson on the left side. Quinn is a vision skatey guy.
Demidov plays a lot like Jack Hughes... talent-wise, though I'm not sure he has Jack's vision (like maybe two people in the league do), but he certainly has the feet and the hands comparable.
Catton reminds me of Sakic a lot... only difference might be playoff performance... Quebec/Colorado didn't know they were getting that when they drafted him, though.
Silayev is hard to gauge... he's mobile like Power, but he plays rougher, but not as rough as Chara did, and I'm fair sure he doesn't have the same offensive potential Power does. But at his size, if he has that dominating personality, he could end up being something like a Pronger, or he could end up just being something like a taller Bouwmeester. Guys playing in men's leagues are really hard to gauge if they're not in important roles... (same problem with Ustinkov, Solberg, and Artamonov
Eiserman reminds me of Brett Hull... because of his effectiveness as a shooter, gets kind of lazy. As the result, he'll be a 50 goal scorer you'll have to find the right linemates for (high maintenance), like a bigger version of Debrincat, but more effective at winning puck battles. A lot of snipers are reticent about puck battles these days. So he'll be a coach's headache, but coach can't say anything because he just flat out gives the team a better chance to win because he only has to work half as hard as everyone else to score.
Lindstrom... Evander Kane... big player, can shoot haaard. He's kind of braggy, so he's probably gonna piss a few people off, and then he'll develop an edge, supposing he can stay healthy. Keith Primeau also similar to him... he's big, but he's not Lindros/Ovechkin/Slafkovsky big. He's more Primeau big, Matthews big.
Corey Perry comparison with Nygard is excellent, Thomas is pretty spot on for Celebrini, Lindholm for Dickinson, Johnson for Connelly, and a lot of the guys in the rest of the first round are pretty similar.
Last one... Tij may be similar to Rust in size, but has considerably higher ceiling, and will play with a fiercer intensity. His playoff / U18 performance suggests he's going to have Jarome's knack for playing harder and heavier the harder and heavier games get.
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