I did notice that haha but it seems like everyone treats their top 15 prospects like they’re the next Gretzky.
All teams fan bases do that and in today's NHL term and how the contract affects your cap is more important then just comparing player to player.
Niku and Vesalainen would be our top 2 prospects.
Appleton and Lemieux have been in the NHL pretty consistently so I'm not even really looking at them.
Comrie (goalie) is having a very strong season in the AHL so he's probably 3 on the board for us.
I only get to see Hayes play a few games a year so it's hard to see how good he is or isn't.
More importantly how he might fit in.
Little is pacing towards a 60pt season.
We really don't need a big piece but we do need our coach to reconfigure the existing lineup to maximize what we have.
He's left the core of the 2nd line together for close to a year and half with poor results in about 75% of that time.
Laine and Little each play better away from each other then they do playing together.
Yet, they are glued at the hip.
A hypothetical Hayes addition allows the team to move Little (or Hayes) to the 4th line which would make them close to a 2nd line talent wise. If Hayes / Connor or Ehlers and Laine could gel together it could be amazing. But in my mind the lack of success of that line has more to do with Laine then anything. Unless you're bringing in a true 1C then who knows if the move would really help him or not.
Good luck tonight.