Exceptional Status Players | Where Are They Now? 

The Maple Leafs Pack Has Just Hit The store 🍁 therthcompany.com/collections/all What is Bedard's potential? And do you think Shane Wright becomes a top line player?

Everyone shut up Rob The Goat posted a video🗣️🗣️

great content as always rob always well written and delivered

Thanks for another quality video with great context & analysis. Best hockey channel out there & it isn’t even close. Keep grinding Rob, 100k is so close you deserve it!!

I'm happy to get to see Misa here in Michigan and he's gotten on more of a role recently. Plus, we have to remember that he's still two years away from being drafted. He should continue to develop.

Bro, I’m so glad I found your channel. I love your insight and opinions. I love your passion for hockey. It’s appreciated, brother. Be easy, Rob! 👊🏻

Just to update Bedard's stats for the First Half of the Season (41 Games Played tomorrow) *he'll still be off 15 Goals 33 Points

Unreal that in this company Misa putting up 19 points in 16 games is a "slow start." Banger video as always, Rob. Loving seeing your 'Nucks flying this year, as is my dad the biggest Canucks fan in Alberta.

Feel like you should have ended on McKenna as he got the Savoie treatment and is tearing it up rn. Btw love your vids especially Prospects vids love the content keep it up🎉❤❤😊

What nobody talks about when it comes to Bedard... the Blackhawks do NOT have any forwards that would be top 6 in a playoff contending team. Crosby had Malkin. McDavid had Nugent-Hopkins and Eberle. Bedard is playing with essentially 3rd and 4th liners. Once this kid gets a few Bonifide top 3 and Top 6 forwards around him, he'll be putting up McDavid like numbers

Yeah epic video Rob never dissapoints🎉🎉😂😂😂

Wrighter is in the right spot. But I still see a ton of upside for him in the long run. He needs his AHL time.

As a hawks fan who prayed for the last few years to get Bedard, I couldn’t be happier. Would love to see Shane Wright really progress too, love the Kraken so far and thinks he could be a sick along with Beniers over in Seattle

6:45 "He was a grown man in a child's body." I think you mean that the other way around. Lol.

Great video rob

That golden eye music

1:19 holy shit that was a sick passing clinic!

Rob The Boss ! best hockey content in the league

I just got a Beniers Young guns for 20 on ebay, looked like it was in mint shape on camera. 🙈🙏

How you gonna put wright over Joey Vel... one plays night in night out producing at the highest level while the other plays high level beer league ahl

You forgot Gavin Mckenna Connor Bedards cousin who is exceptional status in the whl plays for Medicine Hat Tigers

1:26 Halifax??? He played for Rimouski!

I'm pretty sure Corey Perry was the first exceptional status player. Before the official adoption of the "exceptional status" rule players were allowed to play for their hometown team if deemed good enough. I think Perry was the player who played a couple games but I can't find anything on it.

grat video, I got autographs of shane wright on a puck, john taveres on a stick of his and ,conor mcdavid on a puck.

While the whole exceptional status thing wasnt a thing in the 70s, Gretzky basically went that route as well.. I think he could have deserved a mention here at least

Remember sean day....pepridge farms remembers 😂😂😂😂😂

We need to get him to 1 million subs🎉

Cant wait to see wrighr play

Crosby playing in NS at 13. Send him to billet family in Ontario or Montreal.

What video editing software do you use?

Kraken should have called up Wright already. They have gone cold and Beniers is off to a bad start!

Regarding Misa being slated to go 1st in 2025, Corey Pronman from The Athletic recently (last week) put out a "way too early prospect rankings" and had Misa at 6th. I know they're not the be-all and end-all, but if he's not doing great this year and they already have him that low there's a decent chance he doesn't go first. Article title is "2025 NHL Draft top prospects: A way-too-early ranking of James Hagens, Porter Martone and more" (I'll reply to this with a link to the pay-walled article, just not sure if posts with links get auto-deleted) 1. James Hagens 2. Porter Martone 3. Roger McQueen 4. Logan Hensler 5. Matthew Schaefer 6. Michael Misa - "Misa has been very good in the OHL since being named an exceptional status player. As a prospect, his talent level is closer to that of Shane Wright than the very best exceptional-status players, though. Misa is a very strong skater and puck handler who can project to create at an NHL pace and be an asset offensively. He competes well enough and has good playmaking instincts. There is a lack of a wow factor in his game, even though there are a lot of positives."

Just gonna slide in…

BRANDT

5:05 is that you Bisping?

We know how to bred them in Canada.

davo be in high b tier by the end of his career- ultimate fizzler.. went from the true goat the games ever seen to total average role player 9 months later.. ulty sadge

I'm curious if michkov will be on one of these. That's even if Russian Bedardsky ever makes it to Philly. I don't he'll step on American ice at all. I have a strong feeling that he won't make it out of Russia and once again the Flyers will have wasted a pick. I hope I'm wrong. I guess we'll see in a couple of years. I'm loving Bedard..kinda over hearing about him nonstop. We all know his story more than he does

You didn’t put Bedard in the S column?

I really hope there is another honest to goodness reason they are being denied the exception status here other than the “threatening to go to college” route that is mentioned here as being the reason? Chicken shit broken system if that is really the reason at the end of the day as far as those leagues losing money being the reason why they prevent them from being approved, if it’s really the case?

My house was in this video lol

Being in Philly I'm pretty unfortunate that I can't really watch an oilers game unless they're playing the Flyers. So I haven't been able to really watch and focus on McDavid aside from highlights. Kinda sucks. Also...wtf is day?

Veleno will be a C tier after this season, he looks really good this season

6:46 i think you mean a child in a grown mans body haha

You never want to wish young men any bad times. But let's be real, Shayne wright was full of himself in his interviews, he was full of himself at the draft stating he was going number one and have Habs the full stair down when they didn't pick him first. It reminded me of Zadina that wasn't picked by the Habs and he said he would scor lots of goals against the Habs and he isn't even in the NHL now. I am enjoying seing Shayne Wright struggling to make the NHL LMAO. Slavkoski is just starting to show some promise but he has some work to do to be a top two forward. He has a great attitude however and works his but t off. Just goes to say that not all drafts are the same. Had Bedard made it to MTL he would become a GOD at the REAL MECHA SHRINE of Hockey. FTL...

gotta do a new video with Gavin Mckenna

Misa is not going 1st in 2025, that’s James Hagens

Imagine barzal and mcdavid on the same line Jesus

Jordan McDavid ?😮

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say the pandemic and Canada’s ludicrous response dethroned the CHL as the best path to the NHL

The CHL is way better than college leagues, my local team, the London Knights, feels like a mini-NHL, that's how they market themselves too. They have a massive (For the Juniors) 9,000 seat stadium that they sell out nearly every night, they have a history of flashy, dynamic players that get drafted high, then make a huge impact. John Tavares, Nazem Kadri, Darryl Sittler, Mitch Marner, Matthew Tkachuk, Corey Perry, Patrick Cane, Rick Nash and Max Domi, even the current roster has a bunch of dynamic and fun players like Easton Cowan, Denver Barkey, Jackson Edward, Ruslan Gazizov and Kasper Haultunan. A very very successful franchise with diehard fans that love the team. Businesses that sponsor the team will have a sticker on their door saying they're a proud partner and will often have deals and sales when the Knights score, everything about the team screams professional and well run. Only down side is they don't have a real goal horn, it's a recording that plays through the sound system, it's a recording of Boston's horn and their goal song is the same as Chicago's

pluh

I mean i remember being 20 playing against 15 year olds......just house league though haha

Honestly Im hoping Joe Valeno can get the 2nd line centre by the end of the year in Detroit. I mean we kinda need him to. Copp and Compher are not better than him.

Who decides who is exceptioonal?

Bedard is defiantly “S” Tier

Saying Tavares wasn’t a game breaking player stinks of recency bias. Being a PPG up until 4 or 5 years ago was like putting up 100 points nowadays.

I'm still mad about Bedard going to the Hawks. That franchise does not deserve a player that talented. Let me put it this way, I'm a Sharks fan myself and I would have rather he went to the *Ducks* than the Hawks even if it meant having to face him more times per year with the team in the same division.

Mcdavo is over rated definitely peaked in the ohl…. He’s doing a good job holding down last place in the league though I wonder where him and Leo will go when they request trades next season

Dont u make this same video every year?

Good video, bad tierlist.

15 is the age of exceptional status players. Not 14. Crosby did not go back to play for Halifax after SSM. He also did not go back to Midget AAA because of parents harassment. He went to SSM because he can play against older players. Do your homework before making videos

LOL. Grown man in a Child body 😅

I know there was Eric Lindros, Brad Marchand, etc... but in my mind. Shane Wright will ALWAYS be the BIGGEST BlTCH IN NHL HISTORY! He doesn't even deserve a passing grade. he is the biggest flop pick EVER! (in my mind)