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The Hockey Writers' prospects experts Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini, and Dayton Reimer get together to dive into Peter's final rankings for the 2024 NHL Draft with some fallers from his last rankings.
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Let's go to our fallers. And of course, when there's risers, there's guys that fall down
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I Peter, who's your biggest ballers from your mid term to your final ones here
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They I'm going to get to the one that's on everyone's mind. And that is Anton Suleyev
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Mainly because of the fact that yes, he's big, he's mobile, he's got that's a Dana char like
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person that personality but skill set to his game, maybe a little bit more offensive production
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But after that hot start, he hasn't really quite he didn't maintain that consistency. And I kind of
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expected that as a teenager in the KHL, there is bound to be some regression. And there was not to
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say that he won't be as aggressive as productive next season. The season after that, I just had
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some reservations that maybe his decision making was a little bit off at times, even defensive play
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didn't quite seem to match that as what happened was what I saw in the first half of the season as
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well. I just feel like there are other defensemen that also started to make their impact. And I
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could really can't say anything about Adam Yurich, right, because he hasn't played all year. But you
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know, there's a possibility where I feel like there's more upside possibly with a guy like EJ
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Emery, Stan Solberg. You know, I just had some question marks about the offensive production. And
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again, it's counterintuitive where you shouldn't like write off a teenager playing at the pro
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league. I just want to see a little bit more. But yeah, that's just where that was my reasoning for
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dropping saliv down. Again, it's very likely that he does go top 10 because some teams are definitely
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gonna not want to pass on that because of that size and mobility and even the physical play. It's
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just it seems like everything else kind of took a step back after that. Another faller and Dayton
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sorry about this, but Luke Misa fell out of my first round. After being a highly dynamic and very
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very creative playmaker, I still think highly of Luke Misa. I just feel that, again, other players
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answer the call, they rose up their play increase. But also, if that play alone for Misa is going to
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be enough to be replicated next season in the season after that, like, can you still maintain
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that? There were question marks about that as a result, because of that. And it took a little bit
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longer for me to try and see that I will admit that, but I still think he's going to be a very
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effective or very valuable top 50 pick because of that playmaking creativity and skill that he
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possesses, especially when he's on the Russian and neutral zone, hard to contain him. And that is
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the reason why he just fell as a result, but everybody else kind of like up their game when he
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really didn't quite do enough and kind of just stayed stagnant
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