The love affair with size in NHL scouting these days has grown to preposterous levels; some people would rather take a kid who is over six-feet tall than a smaller player with higher production. Why that is, I don’t know. It seems there is no pleasing both crowds, and what I mean by that is not every player can be Anthony Mantha.
With that being said, the NHL seems to be trending towards smaller, mobile, puck-racing defensemen. But who is to say that big guys can’t be mobile, too? This thought has made me warm up to Nicolas Hague.