Sens Rule
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- Sep 22, 2005
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Nice. So you know for sure that the 3rd round pick is already better than Prince. That's impressive how you can be so absolute about Prince and the completely unknown that is a future draft pick. I'm assuming you are using tea leaves.
Like I said, there is very little chance that a 3rd round pick will even be close to what Prince is now. That's a fact, go a have a look at the percentage of 3rd (a late one to boot) round picks that actually played a game in the NHL.
I already outlined the names. Chiasson, Puempel, Dzingel, Paul. You can't make a good case that either one of them is currently better than Prince.
Right now Prince would go through Waivers and leave for nothing. Even with injuries to forwards Prince could not grab his chance to stick.
A 3rd round pick likely doesn't have the AHL career of Prince. The pick however is better then nothing. And might yield an effective player in 2/3/4 years.
And ALL those players are better then Prince was in the back half of the year on the Sens. All of them. You argue that thereis no "good" case for ANY of them. That is so wrong. Dzingel is similar to Prince but is a better skater (a top notch skater) and he seems to have more jam and energy to me. Paul is a monster sized player, clearly able to play a defensive line role, work the boards, while being effective offensively. Chiasson is bigger, more physical and can play a checking line role. He is not that great but he plays roles that Prince can't. Puempel is meh like Prince. Sorta good. No overall role playing development. He is better simply because he doesn't need to fo through waivers this season.
Prince was great in a handful of games this year. But in most he had no impact and was basically invisible. I actually like him and hope he succeeds. I don't think he will though, as an NHLer. Because all he can do is play a scoring line role, but he is not good enough to do it. I think he will try another couple of years to be in the NHL and then have a successful career in the KHL or Switzerland and be anong the better scorers there and make several hundred K a year. He is like Da Costa. A lot of talent but not the full package of tools to really be an effective scoring line NHLer. But still a great hockey player.