bert
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That's your evaluation of the situation?
Haha.
Draft status has nothing to do with the player after he is drafted. You know that right? Might as well trade Stone for Drouin... I mean 3rd overall come on. Stone is a 6th rounder and Drouin is only 20 years old... makes so much sense.
I can only imagine if you were GM and somebody offered you 2nd OV from the 2006 draft(Jordan Staal) for Karlsson who was 15th overall in 2008. I mean 2nd overall for 15th overall... who would be dumb enough to turn that down?
Looking a draft status ... please.
Let's send everything we have for Yakupov too, he was not 3rd overall, not 2nd overall, he was 1RST OVERALL!!!! The draft status meter explodes.
No my evaluation of the situation is well documented throughout the last 3 months. Repeating myself over and over again with next to no counter argument is exhausting.
I watched Drouin as a Jr live 8 times. He is a superstar talent, his numbers back it up, so do his accomplishments. He has elite elite vision and skill, he really just needs an opportunity. The fact that you compared him Yakupov makes me think you have never watched the player or dont understand the sport. Yakupov has tunnel vision and a shoot first player, I never liked him. Secondly the 2013 draft was simply a much better forward draft than 2012.
I dont want to trade White, he looks like an awesome prospect but he isnt a first overall level talent like Drouin. He is very likely going to be something similar in the mold of a Lazar or Zibanejad a two way forward that is a right handed shot.
Ottawa is missing a legit game breaker up front, that's what Drouin is. He can create offense out of nothing better than anyone in his draft class.
No idea about the rest of the ridiculous tangent you went on about trading Stone etc I never said that. Is White going to be as good a player as Stone?... Probably not.
Patrick Eaves was an unbelievable College player too, right handed shot went to BC just like White. He even played first line on a WJC winning team.
Dont get me wrong I am a big White fan, love what I am hearing/seeing of him, however there are no guarantee's he is going to be a star either. That's the risk. At this point both Drouin and White are very young hockey players, Drouin was/is a better prospect still is.
Drouin was the top ranked prospect not playing in the NHL just a year and a half ago. That wasnt an accident.