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  1. I think I found your problem...
  2. Thanks for posting. Great article and sounds like a lot of the things some of us have been saying....
  3. Preaching patience = Homer. Not like we have any choice anyway, unless one of these guys had a time machine. In which case I hope we draft Sanheim instead and watch CDC really freak out!
  4. Sure it can. Tkachuck was clearly closer to making the NHL, that doesn't make him the better player in the long run. Virtanen was, as you said, always projected to a project and be less of a scorer but bring other facets. So let's give him the time to be that project. That's all I'm saying. Short of generational 1st overall players you can also always find players drafted after other players who outperform them. It's not an exact science and it doesn't make the other picks 'bad' either. If we were drafting biggest need, we probably should have nabbed Sanheim with our 6th then
  5. You sell Hansen far too short. Never mind if he added 30'ish pounds of muscle. Seriously, have you guys even looked at historic 6th overall picks?
  6. A Hansen with size who can physically intimidate teams I'll take on my team any day, thanks.
  7. I didn't tell anyone what Nylander's ceiling was...
  8. I'm not declaring him a finished project. He'll almost certainly continue to improve. I don't know how you can argue he hasn't had a better development path and hence is further ahead. I thought that's what most of you were complaining about? Lol
  9. People were expecting Bertuzzi? That's all some of us were Weber hoping for. A 40'ish point Jannik Hansen with size-esque, middle player would be fantastic IMO. And certainly still within reach.
  10. That may be your point but it's not what you posted We'll see what happens. Adversity can be a good thing. I'm still optimistic he becomes a good player for us in a few years and am happy to see it through and not fret over every bad game and micro-analyzing his every move. Right now, I just want to see him doing hard work towards playing with pace/attack, playing that way consistently and unlearning all his bad junior habits and generally becoming a pro. The rest should follow if he can do that.
  11. Yup. There is more to the game of hockey than an individual players GAP stat line though, right? A players GAP does not entirely equate to their value in trade or to their team.
  12. We might very well. We are rebuilding after all. You actually can't claim the underlined as truth. And there was certainly even less of a guarantee of it when they were all drafted.
  13. Or they're rightly more concerned what the team looks like in 2+ years than right now. The other guys are perfectly fine players. Doesn't mean anyone messed up. You can't have all the players.
  14. Man that was horrible coverage by Philly. No one even touched him until after he scored
  15. He was never forced to really learn fundamentals in Junior for multiple reasons, then he was unable to go to the AHL where he would have been best served last year. I'd say he's comparatively, approximately 1.5-2 years behind in development due to a large extent, circumstance. (And yes, also some immaturity etc).
  16. If Nylander and Virtanen where clay sculptures, the artist creating them would be putting the finishing touches on Nylander. Virtanen would be like an amorphous blob of clay still. Yippee for Nylander, he got started sooner and he's closer to a finished product. I'm not so sure what's so difficult to understand about those of us willing to be patient? Are the other guys presently ahead? Yup. Were they always likely to put up more points? Yup. Has Virtanen matured and developed at a slower pace so far? Yup. Is it still FAR too early to declare any of them final products? Yup.
  17. Like this And FWIW, I didn't really 'compare' them.
  18. Yeah I'd say Utica next 1-2 years, then a few years on the 4th and eventually, likely swap places with Sutter in 5+ years and take over as 3C if things go well.
  19. Well I don't know about that last part. Hischier will almost certainly stay in junior or go to Utica if we do manage to luck out on the lotto and draft him. Gaudette, Lockwood etc are still likely a couple years away and Boeser will likely be in a middle 6 role next season if he makes the team. With the right trades etc... it certainly possible but I wouldn't call it likely. I do think we'll likely be slightly better than this year though. A bit more youth/talent injected and more/better depth in Utica should mean both teams do better next year.
  20. Forward group is still very much a work in progress. After seeing how Benning and Co transformed our D core in a couple seasons, I'm excited to see what they do the next couple years with more focus on the forward group.
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