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Why Patrik Laine, not Auston Matthews, is the top NHL draft prospect

What Patrik Laine is doing at his age has rarely been done before in the modern era. Roni Rekomaa/AFP/Getty Images

There is a great debate between favoring Auston Matthews and favoring Patrik Laine as the top overall prospect in the 2016 draft class, and in crafting my top 100 rankings for the class, I landed on Laine.