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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Plenty of good prospects? Who? Look at that list.
The previous regime extracted nothing of value out of the previous core (Iginla, Kipper, Regehr, Langkow, etc). If handled properly he would have some additional asset capital to work with.
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Well the assets he inherited were
1) a 21 year old winger who averaged 27 goals and 52 assists for 79 points on an 82 game basis over the first 6 years of Brad's regime
2) a 20 year old center who averaged 31 goals and 38 assists for 69 points on an 82 game basis over the first 6 years of Brad's regime
3) a 24 year old dman who averaged 7 goals and 30 assists for 37 points on an 82 game basis over the first 6 years of Brad's regime.
And he inherited assets that he turned into the following picks and prospects
Four 2nd round picks
One 3rd round pick
One 4th round pick
One 6th round pick
A 22 year old prospect who was a former first round pick
A 19 year old prospect who was a former 2nd round pick
I do not think we have any current players or prospects in our system who will match collectively just numbers Gaudreau, Monahan and Brodie put up in their first 6 years under Brad. I think you could make a pretty strong case that this team is in a poorer position in terms of young talent or players who could be traded for young talent compared with what Brad inherited.
Rasmus is 24 but he has never had a single season where he averaged over an 82 game season the pace that Brodie averaged over 6 seasons. You have a 24 year old Hanifin who you can say the exact same thing about. And you have a 22 year old Valimaki who is not as good as Brodie was at the same age.
Up front you have Tkachuk, Dube, Pelletier and Zary. Highly doubtful any combination of any of our top 2 forward prospects or young players will be as productive as Monahan or Gaudreau. A new GM would have to move some serious pieces to accumulate the draft picks the previous regime's players were able to accumulate and have 3 young players who turn out to be as good as Brodie, Gaudreau and Monahan.