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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
What’s negative? Wasting picks and prospects on a roster constructed to do #### all or hope they stay patient draft high end talent at the top of the draft so that they have a consistent team that doesn’t require having to looking for the hardest asset to get.
Maybe you are negative because you don’t want them to have success annually?
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All of these things you believe we need are not going to arrive at the same time.
We currently have some great young wingers (22-24 years old).
A seemingly fantastic young goalie (24 years old).
Some great up and coming defensemen (19-23 years old).
A couple of nice mid-6 centres (23 and 26 years old).
Why not add a 22-year-old #1 centre to that mix?
Would that not be even better than waiting a year to hopefully add an 18-year-old potential #1 centre, who then needs 2-3 years to acclimate to the league?
Or, let's say we
SOMEHOW get McKenna next year and Dupont the year after.
We're then into 2028, 2029 or even 2030 seasons before those two are truly ready to compete as game breakers.
Well, then everyone above is now 3-5 years older as well, and perhaps starting to decline.
I would love to see this team as is with someone like Wyatt Johnston, then see how we grow and add to that.
Never mind the veterans who would still be around, but a team with Johnston, Coronato, Zary, Frost, Pospisil, Suniev, Gridin, Battaglia, Basha, Parekh, Brust., Poirier, Kuznetsov, Solovyov and Wolf looks really nice to me, and looks like something which could compete for quite a few years, if all turn out.
The last four words are pretty key, as who is to say whomever we draft high after tanking 2-3 years even works out?
No one is suggesting we trade a first rounder for a middle 6 centre, or a 28-30-year-old centre. It's a true potential young #1 we are talking about trying to add here.
I don't buy any of the nonsense that our first is in play for Byram, either.