SEVEN YEARS AGO, scouts were saying a lot of the same things about Miro Heiskanen and Cale Makar that they’re now saying about Sam Dickinson and Artyom Levshunov. The parallels are pretty remarkable, actually.
Back then, Makar was a right-shot, late-birthday defender with tons of offensive flair. Levshunov is all those things, too. Heiskanen was a left shot with a more physical bent to his game and the perception of being a better all-round defenseman. Meet Sam Dickinson.
And like 2017, when Heiskanen and Makar went third and fourth overall, the margin between them isn’t tight so much as it is hermetically sealed. “I guess you can tell by what I’m saying about them that I have them second and third on my list, eh?” said one scout who was asked about…
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