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Originally Posted by Bingo
Depends on what you do with the pick I guess.
I wanted Zary in that grouping and was rattled when they traded down twice ... but then pleasantly surprised to get him anyway.
Adding Poirier is a good piece of business.
And I think people are a little more high on Boltmann now too no? Not emerging prospect level, but less of a wasted pick level?
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It’s true but to me 3rd round players with warts aren’t enough for me to miss out on the bigger names with less warts this year even that year. Right handed players with offensive ceilings like mercer had or forester had or even the 2way promise Schneider had were tough to overlook. If anything I trade up for the second to get closer to t the back end of the first.
Boltman is a plain pick and has limited offensive upside. He could top out as a solid fourth dman as a ceiling and sixth/seventh dman as a floor. Not really anything you can’t pick up cheaper than a 3rd like Luke Schenn who cost a late 3rd, floating around the fringes of the league. IMO an offensive ceiling lottery ticket is better than a common floor that is easily obtained. Unless boltman turns into Rhett Warrener we don’t have anything to get excited about. His scouting th report doesn’t really inspire much of it’s me. I think kuznetsov is a better prospect mind you he was a second. But still I’d swing for offensive upside.
Poirier is a decent bit of business as you say but his defensive game has a long way to go to defend at the nhl level and his offense isn’t Cale Makar like. So really we have a lot of development left with him. He’s not physical and he will struggle at the pro level with his coverage. Think a worse Noah hanifin. He has his warts but no prospect evaluator is saying things are on the up with him. His recent benchings confirm the sentiments if anything. I hope all the prospects do well but to play at the highest level you have to be very competent physically as a dman unless your offence is top tier. He falls into neither category. This to me the risk wasn’t worth the reward but I’m not a decision maker.
I banged the table for the flames to move up to draft kopitar and the same for scheifle to no avail. All we have are these outlets it’s ride or die with our teams decision makers. I’m almost ready for Todd button to move on. The gaudreau pick was good. Tachuck felll into our laps. Coronato looks good but could leave. Anderson was good. Ruzicka is still a project.
This team needs more size skill and pp threats. No more little dudes although I like Pelletier but at the back end of the first round it’s tough to find studs. Coronato will have to justify the Bison namesake at the highest level but I do believe his scoring instincts will thrive in the league. Maybe he’s a joe Mullen type ?