Ask A Scout: Your Chance To Get Answers To Your Questions

Did you think Central Scouting’s final rankings were any better or worse this year than in the past? Stephen Johns was ranked ahead of Mark Alt – but the Canes took Alt. Is that just a matter of an individual team’s needs asserting themselves? Archibald, Silas, and Schemitsch were all ranked ahead of Levi who was correctly tagged, it turns out, by David Burstyn and others to be a sleeper pick. Was it just the Compuware connection, or does he have more upside than the others? Stahl also looks like a good deal if you put stock in the NCS rankings, but how reliable are their rankings?

Thanks for arranging this, Cory, and thanks for generously offering your time and expertise, Max.

Do you have access to any information on Mattias Lindstrom’s condition post-injury? Is he an NHL prospect?

Among Lindstrom, Jared Staal and Oskar Osala, which do you think most likely to succeed in the NHL as an immovable object near the net? (The Canes need that and don’t seem to have it on the NHL roster.)

As for the defensive prospects, what do you think of the relative NHL potential of Sanguinetti, Dumoulin, Faulk, Alt and McBain? This may be an unreasonable request and, if so, feel free to decline, but which pairing do you see as the ceiling for each of these young defensemen?

I’m also wondering if Dumoulin’s outstanding performance at BC this year suggests he should have gone higher than the late second round, or do you think that would still be about right for him? Was Sanguinetti drafted too high, or does he have first-round talent?

i’m sure we’ll all enjoy seeing this, and tks for doing it! from what i’ve seen, there will be plenty of good Q’s for MAX, and don’t let him go until he answers them all, ha,ha!

A player that often gets overlooked is Chris Terry. In his second to last junior season he had 101 points and then in his final year 94 points in just 53 games. He was captain on the team and won several leadership and community awards. He seems like a class kid and a natural leader. He is not big but at 5’10" and now close to 200lbs he is big enough. He also had a solid rookie campaign in Albany last year.
Question is, is he a legitimate NHL prospect or one of these kids that was a great junior but destined to spend his career in the minors.

Clearly scouting isn’t an exact science. Do scouts consider themselves successful if they’re sort of right about 90% of the players? Exactly right about 20%? Is there a rule of thumb?

How does that rule of thumb compare with the way scouts evaluate team drafts?

Cory, do you have an idea of when Max and you will do this?