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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Now we are back to "What constitutes success?"
What makes Zav, MacKey, & Poolman (none of whom have played a professional hockey game) better in your eyes than Ruzicka, or Yelesin (who with Gadwin got an NHL call up)?
Are Roman and Linus failures to be used as stats on bad drafting, or just guys who didn't pan out in the great NHL crap shoot?
Though not success, in their cases I think it is just guys who couldn't take it to the next level to warrant a special contract/team slot.
A team can only have so many contracts and only have so many players at each level.
You could consider MacKey & Poolman as the 4th round replacements as they only cost the team money, not picks, to acquire. Two guys who were not progressing out, two guys who seem to be progressing in.
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3 of the 4 I mentioned have yet to play but their potential seems high enough, like nhl level player potential, so I guess that's why I mentioned them. We will see I guess. Phillips seems like a wild card, dont want to write him off yet.
Ruzicka and Yelesin seem like high floor, low ceiling guys to me, maybe bottom of the roster depth for a few years? Need guys like that to step into limited roles to prevent spending too much on the bottom 6. If they make it as depth, that will be a success. We need more than that though. Those are the types of guys other teams have as well. We need to stay ahead of the curve and have a better stable of prospects in order to be successful.
I liked the Pelletier pick, and valimaki. All I'm saying is we need more ammo for the gun for our prospects to produce prospects like that. I realize they are 1st rounders but you can find similar level prospects in the 2nd and 3rd round sometimes. Dube was an excellent pick for example. We need more of those level picks, not less. You'll never find guys like dube if you trade the picks all the time. The gustafsson and Forbort trades pissed me off. Just more of the same from this GM. The lack of quality picks is starting to show imo, is all I'm trying to say.
I realize our team is mostly homegrown and guys like lindholm and hanifin were acquired via Hamilton who was acquired via picks. That was the one good draft pick trade BT has made and it was because he got a u23 former 1st round dman back. Not middling depth. The system is hurting, but the team is young so all is not lost. Need to stop trading those picks though unless it's for a thoroughbred like Hamilton.