[Tinordi]

How is giving up a 2nd or 3rd round for a promissing 21 year old with NHL experience, not make us a contender?

Which player are you talking about specifically? Who is promising that's in the spectre of possibility for a team to not match an offer sheet? The history of offer sheets suggests that they are not useful tools to acquire players. Please demonstrate otherwise.

There are plenty of players who develop into far more than they are at 21. In fact, you're much more likely to hit a "home run" getting an established 21 year old than just some random 2nd/3rd round pick.

Again this all depends on you successfully being able to acquire the player, which is very very faint.

I guess I'm not a real fan, because I want to exchange a 3rd round pick for a 21 year old who is already proven and may develop into something far more? What possible kind of sense does that make.

Who is the mystery player that you speak of?

I'll say it again...only on the internet is acquiring a 21 year old considered throwing away the future. Are you guys honestly telling me that if you could acquire a player like Backlund for a 2nd or 3rd round pick you wouldn't do it? Let's be honest here too, the odds of acquiring a better player than Backlund in the 2nd or 3rd round are what? 1/30, so 3%?

The only way to build a contending team is through the draft. You need to swallow this down. The window is 4 years away. That's how long it will take. Any bit of Berglund or Tanev that we acquire with our picks is only shuffling deck chairs around. Berglund and Tanev are not the players that you build an elite core out of. Those players, while theoretically accessible with offer sheets merely muddle you along further the path of mediocrity.

This jackboot cavalier attitude to developing the future and instead wanting to take the shortcut is the REASON we are in this predicament. Now you want to double down on this failed strategy. Open your friggin eyes.