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for your other points:
I think you could say to every team.. “they need to hit on 1st rounders.” I would wager that it’s extremely unlikely to be a successful team without at least 1/2 first round picks leading the way. Honestly, in most cases you probably need 2/3. The teams that don’t have that probably have a college commit they took in round 10 (who talent wise was a first rounder when drafted) or an import who are making a big difference. So that’s not a big insight to say Erie needs to hit on their 1st rounders. My point was that having a top 4 pick in 2022, maybe the first overall pick, will make things easier….
In terms of wasting picks. We’ve been over this before. They did “waste” the picks on those 2022 3rd rounders. However, the premise behind it was logical at the time: Erie didn’t have high picks upcoming and traded away their youth from the years before. In order to compensate they took the risk on college kids. If they showed up, they would have reaped the rewards. Instead, it hurt. That said, 3rd round picks are far from guaranteed to be anything… let alone a star player. I don’t think that is the reason for any lack of success right now. Rather, having only 1 import on the roster (despite having top import picks the last few years) and Lockhart not developing is a much bigger hole in their success or lack of success. Not to say that those two situations makes them a top team in the league but it does however make them closer to, if not, a .500 team. If they were 10-10-1-1 would anybody have any issue? Probably not…
You hope they pick the right guy with the #1 pick overall if they get it.
I see your points but you parlay way too much optimism and your teachings havent been supported the last 5 years or so.
I only see Sova being classified as a top player (either top 6 fwd or top 4 dman) in the next 2-3 years, and thats not a good thing when only 1 player on your team can achieve that, considering they have had high picks.