I don't see how, roughly 3 months after he won the gold medal at the World Junior Championship, in TORONTO to top it off, his value is considered to be at an all time low. Fucale's case is really easy to sell. He has won pretty much everything there is to win for a junior player.
Tell me, when a manager looks at Fucale, what does he see first? His achievements or his average numbers on an all-offense Remparts team?
Memorial Cup, Gold at World Juniors including being the Starter for two straight years. Amongst the all-time leaders in wins in he 'Q. His ridiculous number of straight starts (was it 70?) as a 16 year old, including a deep push beyond the mighty Remparts.
I don't think you really understand how desperate some teams are in the goaltending department. We've been so blessed in Montréal historically in that aspect that we tend to underrate our goaltenders if they're anything below Hall of Famers.
Nowadays, the difference between a good backup goaltender and a poor one can make/break a season. I'm very confident that if/once Bergevin starts taking calls for Fucale, the offers will come aplenty, and they won't be disappointing.
Great for him that he won the world juniors but winning a hockey tournament playing for Canada should always be taken with a grain of salt IMO, he didnt have to be great in order to get the gold medal, Team Canada scored 18 goals in 3 games in the medal rounds, he gave up 4 goals on 30 shots against Russia which isnt anything noteworthy, showed bad positionning on the 1st Russian goal (Dman shot from a very bad angle along the boards), gave up 3 consecutive goals in the last 5 minutes of the 2nd period.
As for his memorial cup, knowing the Q like you do Im sure I dont have to remind you how great the Mooseheads were that year, this is hypothetical but I think they could've easily pulled off everything they did with a Marco Cousineau, Gabriel Girard, Nicolas Riopel, etc, guys who will never even get a sniff of the NHL but were also better than him statistically.
If you think his trophycase will be enough to convince an NHL GM that he could be a future #1 with the stats that he has I think you're wrong, if a GM is going to give up assets for him he's going to scout him and watch him in actual games before making his move and I doubt anybody will come out of Colisée Pepsi impressed with what he's shown this season, especially with the Remparts.
You're right saying what he did as a 16 year old was very impressive, the problem is he has barely improved between now and his 17 year old season, the one thing you should consider when evaluating a prospect is his progression, how could his value be anywhere higher than it was on draft day with what he's shown this year playing on a good junior team. I think his value was at his highest at the time we drafted him and I fail to see any point between now and then where it could've been lower than where it's at now after being really dissapointing (did he even finish a game against Val D'or?) and showing very few improvements in the last 2 seasons.
