How good are the talking heads about predicting the draft

[Cranky]

I was over at HF and found this interesting post....

By MrNasty in HF....


McKenzie was off an average of 2.6 rank positions.

McKenzie 2.6
HockeyProspect 3.4
Recrutes 3.4
HockeyBuzz 3.9
Dobber 4.1
McKeens 4.2
Marek/Sportsnet 4.85
Kennedy (THN) 4.85
THN guide 5.3
Draft Analyst 5.5
ISS 5.6
Button 5.8
Future Considerations 7.2
Pronman 7.4


It appears the closest one to predicting who are the top draft choices.

Note Button is one of the worse. His nonsense about Kotkaniemi and Tkachuk is just that, nonsense. Although I hope that Carolina reads him like it's the bible and Svech drop on our lap.

[Disgruntled70sHab]

... I'm going off the board ...
... they're only opinions but I actually like what the guy did ...

[folatre]

Interesting information, guys. Button may well be off base again by the look of things.

[seventeen]

He's been well off base often in the past. He's not one whose opinion I valued very highly, just from comparing what he thought of some guys I had seen play. If NWT gave us his mock draft, or (horrors) BC, I'd probably put more stock in those than in Button's.

Well, maybe not BC's, but that's assuming I ever got to the end of it.

[Skilly]

We better not draft Brady Tkachuck ...