Just so everyone is aware: According to our old draft thread, we as fans wanted:
Vilardi, Necas, Valimaki, or Liljegren.
Not a single poster on our entire board wanted Rasmussen.
Just to be clear.. that means he has no cheerleading section here.
No blind fans.
But he does have posters like me. Who, you know, cheers for Red Wings prospects.
Look maybe skipping on Vilardi was a huge mistake... but that mistake is in stone now. All the bashing of Rasmussen to suck... is not going to change that.
We are here... We have Rasmussen... Like it or not!
And our "chromag, stupid pick, skill-less caveman".... is not sucking horribly?
He had an OK/good year, not great
He is having a Great playoff series so far.
I for one dont give a $%&# about Vilardi. Because this argument can be had for every player we have:
Larkin sucks... we could have had Pastrnak
Mantha sucks... we could have had Guentzel
Bertuzzi sucks... we could have had Pesce
Svechnikov sucks... we could have had Sebastian Aho
Cholowski sucks... we could have had Samuel Girard/Konecny
Newsflash... there will always be a late round gem, and we likely only have 1/30 chances of beingg the team to find him.
Can we not just focus on Rasmussen himself?
If he tips the puck like Pavelski, and is way bigger... isn't this a good thing?
He is looking great right now. Let us Wings fans look forward to possible skill in the future...
Because our NHL team is on the golf course.
And again a reminder. Rasmussen has not ONE SINGLE POStER on this board who wanted to draft him.
Not ONE!
Everyone wanted Vilardi... im sorry, we dont have him... suck it up.
Appreciate the prospects we have, or you will NEVER be happy, ever.