Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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The difference is that...Always concern with prospects, we were so high on Pouliot, Despres, Harrington, Morrow and look how those turned out. Prospects are just crapshoots, I doubt anyone would have Makar would be this awesome from the get go, or Marino for example who was a 6th round pick and plays like he's a top 10 pick.
Damnit Kessel...could have traded Pouliot over Kapanen. Coulda have had Zucker for you as well. Ah well, maybe some other reality that happened.
Pouliot, Harrington, and Morrow all were in WBS or the NHL to show what they had and were expendable given that, Morrow for one wasn't really wanting to learn or take advice from what I heard, Pouliot was just a waste of a pick and prospect. Harrington was someone people were insanely high on, might have carved out a career as a 3rd pair on the Pens, he did in Columbus.
Despres should be a top pair player, but he had a concussion and then lied and tried to play through it and got concussed again, that's just unfortunate.
Addison is still in juniors. All signs point to a kid that wants to work on his flaws, so I hope he has a great career, the other situations are whatever, I have never heard of Addison having those issues of being cocky about his game and not wanting to improve (morrow) or lack of intensity and brains (Pouliot) and just being a casualty of a team wanting experience/talent (Harrington, Despres).