Stankoven seems pretty far from a sure thing and not in the same ballpark as a guy like Mercer, but I'm fine with him being included.
Interesting thinking back though, the flames had a shot at him in the draft, I can remember a lot of people hoping they'd take him in the draft thread on this board in 2021 when they took Stromgren instead. Not that his profile hasn't changed a bit but our scouting staff passed on him when he was a big scoring, small, WHLer. Not sure they would be that much higher on his as a high scoring, small AHLer.
To me Harley and Lundvist are two guys you want to be targeting... young puck moving NHL level dmen.
Wyatt Johnson is their version of Mercer, but way more valuable as he's still growing and has more team control before his big payday left, can't see him being included.
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