Salvaging recent first round disappointments.

[Hatter of the Beach]

Feel free to rank should you wish. Gave the option to vote for what you feel to be the most likely 3.

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[LT]

Not really sure Dellandrea fits here, maybe a year from now if he’s still stuck in the AHL.

 

[Favin]

1. Wahlstrom
2. Turcotte
3. Glass

the rest

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

None

 

[Lavar Ball]

Turcotte
Hayton
Zadina
Wahlstrom
Dellandrea
Glass
Tippett

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Turc just needs his health, he plays like an absolute bull in a china shop, the problem is he is the china shop

 

[BringTheReign]

1. Wahlstrom
2. Turcotte
3. Glass

the rest

Same.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I think all these people calling Turcotte a disappointment so early are going to look bad.

If he stays healthy, he’s very good. Seems popular around here now to call him a bust because some AHL hacks took cheap shots against him last season.

 

[Buck Naked]

1. Turcotte
2. Wahlstrom
3. Hayton

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Turcotte is a 2019 draft pick. A bit premature to call him a disappointment...

 

[jj cale]

Turcotte is a 2019 draft pick. A bit premature to call him a disappointment...

Theres not a lot of rope given round here is there? I'd give him and most of these guys another couple of years before we start making pronouncements.

 

[The Red Line]

I mean Zadina IS an NHLer and will continue to be, it's just he is unlikely to be the offensive star he was projected to be.

His defensive game is actually pretty good and he competes. I see him kind of like a Patrick Eaves type of a player.

 

[Kcb12345]

Dellandrea is progressing as expected. I would've preferred Farabee at the draft for sure but Dellandrea's upside was always a middle 6 player at best and that's looking like what he will be this season. These other guys were expected to be a lot more, and out of all of them he might be the only one to hit his potential

So if a 3rd liner is a quality NHLer, then Dellandrea is gonna be there as a regular this season.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Theres not a lot of rope given round here is there? I'd give him and most of these guys another couple of years before we start making pronouncements.

This is the same website with a vocal minority that was beating the "Jack Hughes is a bust" drum all his rookie year. Same thing happened (still does) with Lafreniere. I'm sure the same thing will happen with Wright or Slafkovsky.

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To answer the thread question. I think Turcotte will be really good, just maybe on a different team if LA tries to trade for a star player. I think Wahlstrom is poised for a breakout year especially if he's put next to Barzal. Maybe not this year, maybe next. We'll see. I also still think Zadina can begin to find his game under a coach not named Jeff Blashill.

I also still think Ty Dellandrea can do well in Dallas. Is he gonna be in their middle 6 this year Dallas fans?

Idk much about Tippett or Hayton admittedly.

 

[Sweetpotato]

Walhstrom for sure.
Hayton will be a bottom 6 role player at worst.
Turcotte seems like the kind of guy who long term could adapt to play anywhere in the line up.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Turcotte seems like the kind of guy who long term could adapt to play anywhere in the line up.

I think provided health his floor is a high end complementary player, the guy who digs the puck and makes the first play. He's already an absolute mosquito on the forecheck throwing his body around and making a good pass. The hope is of course he becomes more of a prototypical 2C/low-end 1C but at absolute worst he's a high-octane forechecker with excellent vision...which at this point is basically a prototypical modern King, see Trevor Moore, Phil Danault

 

[Kcb12345]

This is the same website with a vocal minority that was beating the "Jack Hughes is a bust" drum all his rookie year. Same thing happened (still does) with Lafreniere. I'm sure the same thing will happen with Wright or Slafkovsky.

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To answer the thread question. I think Turcotte will be really good, just maybe on a different team if LA tries to trade for a star player. I think Wahlstrom is poised for a breakout year especially if he's put next to Barzal. Maybe not this year, maybe next. We'll see. I also still think Zadina can begin to find his game under a coach not named Jeff Blashill.

I also still think Ty Dellandrea can do well in Dallas. Is he gonna be in their middle 6 this year Dallas fans?

Idk much about Tippett or Hayton admittedly.

Yeah very likely Dellandrea ends up on the 3rd line this season for Dallas right out of camp. Would be pretty surprising if he didn't, but then again this is the same team that just last season tried to force Oettinger back down to the AHL but signing Holtby despite him being the best Goalie on the team. Luckily they didn't (or haven't, at least yet) signed a bunch of garbage bottom 6 veteran guys to fill those spots yet.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Turcotte solely because we haven’t really seen how he will play in the NHL and he’s been so injured

Zadina sure as hell isn’t the answer here

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Not Zadina. He’s a bust.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Turcotte, his issues haven't been play wise for the most part. He's been concussed twice already which is tough to overcome.

 

[LongWayDown37]

Are we really bailing on Turcotte already?!

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Are we really bailing on Turcotte already?!

Most of this website has.

Call them out after the fact, if needed.

 

[biturbo19]

I think Wahlstrom is the most likely to blossom into something like what was expected. He's shown some flashes of that stickhandling sniper that he was going into the draft. A new coach in NYI could be a spark for him, depending on what sort of opportunity he ends up with under the new bench boss.


I also still hold out some hope for Cody Glass. Probably not ever going to live up to his draft stature, but he was a real "late bloomer/late riser" as a prospect. I wouldn't rule out him being a bit of a "slow burn" prospect as an NHLer as well. It's just hard not to see him at least becoming a serviceable utility/filler sort of player with upside.


Third spot i was pretty conflicted across a few choices. I think Hayton and Dellandrea are both reasonable bets to "pan out" as decent bottom-6 guys. So there's a "floor" argument to be made there. But i think Tippett profiles as the sort of player who can take a while, but suddenly blows up as a goal scorer when it finally "clicks" and they end up in just the right situation. It just often takes those type of goal-scorers a while to feel out how to use their size+speed to score those goals against grown men rather than just waltzing through it in Juniors.

And Turcotte is probably the biggest wildcard of the bunch. Personally, i was never very high on him as a prospect. But he's also had a pretty bungled development process that is hard to ignore. That in and of itself could go either way - as something that's been holding him back and he'll eventually break out, or as something that's completely derailed his development beyond recovery. Not really a fan of his game though, so i didn't vote that way.

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

Zac Senyshyn

/s

 

[Hatter of the Beach]

Turcotte is a 2019 draft pick. A bit premature to call him a disappointment...

People were calling Zadina a bust last year at his age and, to be frank, he had shown a lot more in the NHL than Turcotte had at that point