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Originally Posted by Bingo
Another indication from a year ago (guessing) that the team is in a rebuild was Conroy on 960 talking to Steinberg about Iginla's involvement in the team and he said something like "yeah Iggy was asking, like how many picks is too many picks?"
The natural age gap between draft years spaces out your system for blue chip prospects to a large degree, but you can't draft 36 junior hockey players in three years and not have to make decisions that you might regret.
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Exactly. Drafting and developing players is not an exact science. So many factors on and off the ice and different development curves makes it impossible to know who to keep when you have a bunch of top 9 projected 22–25-year-olds and a bunch of 19-22 years old coming or making the club early and you can only keep a few before the hit waivers. Smartest hocky minds of all time do not bat 1000 on these decisions. Not even close.
I said several times in the off season we need to trade someone and if we can't trade Kadri or Coleman, Zary was my next pick. I was told that was a terrible suggestion and he is part of the future. I responded with he is good but how good matters to me and if we can get a good return, what is a realistic expectation. Some suggested PPG. He is pacing for 12 points.
Now it probably makes sense to keep him as his value seems low. But if we move him and he excels elsewhere, I blame not enough ice for this.
I'm not suggesting I'm right always, I suggested Ras would not increase his trade value, yet he has started well enough that you could say he has and I was wrong.
Too much at once is not a good thing IMO