All fantastic players who haven’t won anything, either.We probably would’ve gotten a top 5 pick in 2013. We were going to be just awful that year.... Mackinnon, Barkov, Monaghan on the table.
Every team makes similar picks to guys like Bussieries.
Well you could add Pouiout (4oa), and Sheppard (9oa), Gillies (16oa). The all had NHL careers but wouldn't come close to their draft spots that in any re-drafts.
Yeah, i've always been of the opinion that those 3 missed picks held us back as much as anything.
Gillies yes, but we didn't properly develop Sheppard (rushed) and Pouliot (better as a center, could have been something centering Demitra and Gaborik).
At the time, Pouliot was taken about right where he was expected to go.
With all the couldof-wouldof discussed; Here's mine … .
Wild drafted and then traded away a future Norris trophy winner, "Burnsie" .. How's Zack Phillips doing now?
Not sure why you feel the need to mention this as its not contradictory to anything anyone has said. But cool!
Correct, he wasn't a reach... but still a miss.I guess my point was that the Pouliot pick, itself, wasn't really a "miss" in the sense that it was a reach.
There were concerns about Burns contract. The biggest what if, is if Koivu had taken a bit of a discount his third contract. Instead of 6.75 million, he had taken 4.5 or 5 million?
Correct, he wasn't a reach... but still a miss.
I haven't done the math, but it seems that if Burns could play along side of Thornton, Marleau and Pavelski than why couldn't the Wild signed him?
Because our team was in cap hell. We didn't have room for both Koivu and Burns under the cap even with what Burns signed for after the trade. Still took a lot more cap maneuvering over the next year to clear space to be in the Suter Parise sweepstakes.I haven't done the math, but it seems that if Burns could play along side of Thornton, Marleau and Pavelski than why couldn't the Wild signed him?
Wild were gearing up to sign Parise and Suter. It was a surprise that they signed him that low, but Thornton and Marleau weren't making a ton (think like 15 million between the two or less) and Pavelski was making 4 million.
One of the biggest problems was Backstrom's contract though.
We still should've never paid him $6m in the cap era. Paying goalies top goalie dollars is a cap killer. He was getting top goalie level dollars at the time. Dumb cap move.Kind of sort of. His contract ran out in 12-13 and he played well up until then.
We still should've never paid him $6m in the cap era. Paying goalies top goalie dollars is a cap killer. He was getting top goalie level dollars at the time. Dumb cap move.
I don't care that he was a top goaltender, you don't pay top goaltender money in the cap era. It's cap suicide.Up until 2012-2013, he was a top goaltender though. There weren't a lot of options. Extending him after his contract was up was a dumb move by Fletcher.
DR signing him to that deal was the reason Fletcher couldn't even approach Gaborik.
DR signing him to that deal was the reason Fletcher couldn't even approach Gaborik.
No sure thing that Burns becomes Norris Burns if he stays here. Would’ve been nice to find out though.