Ah yes - because a 4th overall pick a little over a year ago that hasn’t been very good in a Spitfires uniform is not worth anything league wide.
My point is merely. What is it? Is Miedema an underachiever? If so why would Kingston be interested in him involving Wright? 13 of their players are 18 or older and that's not including Wright. That sounds like a team that should want to win now. They need goal scoring preventing goals isn't an issue. Kingston isn't going to want him if they think he's bad though.
GermanSpitfire likes to focus primarily on the negatives on this board and tout Wyatt Johnston sticking with Dallas as a recent positive that he sees.
Why are we so worried about who has what points? It’s way to early to get our panties in a knot. Once we are approaching the Christmas break we should be able to determine which direction the team should take. So far so good…
kingston would run to get meidima, they were trying to tell him not to report to windsor in his draft year. hed be at the top of their list im sure
I like to focus on the negatives? WHAT?
Oh I don't doubt it. I just want it to make sense though. If we were to read the opinions here on Miedema then said team shouldn't have interest in him. I just remember discussions saying if Johnston was back and the team struggled automatically the answer was "teams top 16 year old 1st round pick." Now if the Spits wanted to make a run for it "you can't trade your top 16 year old" Just stating that I want this theory to make sense. I just find it surprising because what you usually find is fans overrate their own players. In the case of Miedema definitely not. Probably in the case of Cristoforo since people are throwing around Ryan Ellis comps.
what is said on here has no baring on what ohl teams think, not sure why that would be a connection
If trading for Wright right now, the team can‘t trade Cristoforo anyway. That’s why I brought up the discussion, because the Spits are one of a few contenders with the nessasary expendable “high end” assets to make a move for Wright. At the end of the day, the Spitfires are poised to buy this year if their record indicates anything - I don’t think discussions about the team buying are far fetched.
Fitting in nicely playing with Maggio and Maillet.
Someone is going to be willing to trade their first rounder (like Hamilton did last year), and when that happens will you be able to keep up with them? Nobody on here wanted to deal Miedema last year either. Not saying Cristo is on Miedemas trajectory, but you have to give something to get something...
Exactly. Hamilton moved Pharand to get it done he's doing fine in Sudbury but I doubt Hamilton is shedding any tears. In 2018 it took moving McMichael/McCourt/Webb/Fergus and picks but they won the OHL that year. You can turn it over real quickly as you see with Hamilton. Hamilton also does an outstanding job of drafting/developing.
There is no doubt you need to give something of value to get a player of quality, it's pretty much standard practice that a top NHL prospect returning to the OHL would likely require that year's first round pick going back the other way in january if he's traded. If not, some combination of second round picks and good 17 year olds is the price. That would mean Christoforo or Miedema along with picks for whatever top player we're going after. I could be persuaded to include Meidema, but I would be reluctant to throw in Christoforo because I feel he's going to be a significant player for us down the line. Having said that, if the target is Wright I don't include either one and take a hard pass on trading for him. There's better things to spend our assets on than a guy who is going to have more chips on his shoulder than Humpty Dumpty after getting sent back to the OHL. He's fools gold, and certainly not this years version of Mason McTavish. Who are the other options?
