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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
It is easy to find a bottom 6 player though, especially when you dangle a second round draft pick. Lazar is a project, not a commodity. You don't pay a second for a project. Can he turn out, absolutely. Are the odds likely in our favour, nope.
The point is we didn't pay a 4th or 5th round pick for this project, we paid a 2nd which I think is an extremely high price for someone who really has a limited ceiling. People seem to talk on here like he was a free addition.
Say we are contending this year and need some help at the deadline. A 2nd could land us someone like Brian Boyle. Basically the pick of the litter of any bottom 6 player available.
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I'm a little more optimistic for Lazar than you, however seeing how our offseason went I definitely agree with the value of a second rounder and specifically how important it would have been to this team with the sheer volume of picks we spent on Stone, Smith and Hamonic.