Lil Sebastian Cossa
Opinions are share are my own personal opinions.
- Jul 6, 2012
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It Bouchard or Dobson for me. Just pick one of them. Dont take a winger and dont take a small defensmen. This is so easy where Detroit is drafting at and at least one will be there at 6.
Im confident Detroit will **** it up as they never make the easy smart move.
I hate takes like this. If you're so determined to think the team will never do anything right (which is ****ing insane, by the way because the Wings have as many titles as any team in hockey in the last 30 years. Hell, they have more titles than any team not named Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, LA, and New Jersey since 2008. In other words, they are one of six teams in the last decade to win the Cup. )
They make the easy smart move all the time. They're just hamstrung from doing it at will because the cap and the twin lockouts. I mean, 2012, their first trip was to Wisconsin to land Suter. It truthfully isn't their fault that Craig Leipold went bat**** and signed Suter and Parise to $198M in contract. In 14, they went to Matt Niskanen, Dan Boyle, and one other guy.
At 20 in the 2013 draft they took 50 goal scorer in the QMJHL Anthony Mantha
At 15 in the 2014 draft they took Dylan Larkin
Hell, in 2016, they freed up enough cap space to shoot for Stamkos. The fact that he didn't choose to speak with them is irrelevant, they made the easy call.
They were the only team really interested in Radulov for awhile. They sat on Andreas Athanasiou's ridiculous contract demands and got him to stay here and not blow out their negotiations with all future RFAs by caving to a KHL offer sheet.
God damn it, they've made mistakes, but the Wings still generally do know what they're doing.