GoldiFox
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Svech MIGHT be there day 1, but look at Draisatil. NHL level skating etc, he looked lost day 1 and Oil had to nurture him along for several months. You might be right but it is not a given.
You underrate Zib.
Those guys are all that and a bag of chips, but so is Zib, who is a righty shot.
Draisaitl isn’t comparable to Svechnikov pre-Draft. Draisaitl did have skating concerns while Svechnikov’s skating is effortless. Svechnikov is more on the level of Hall/Stamkos/MacKinnon as THE top forward of the Draft.
I’m not saying that Zib is worse than those. Only that Zib would be obtainable with a package like Hanifin/Pesce + sweeteners.
Canes ALSO need F depth w/out robbing Peter to pay Paul
Zib is enough to fill the bill, + Andy + Buch +
Also Georgiev while taking 4+m disaster Darling off your hands is a major consideration. Georgiev may/not turn into true 1G but his brief sample left nothing to not like. Yes, you have to add, but this provides immediate elc stopgap that is useful part of the equation.
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later friends, later.
C: Aho, Lindholm, Staal, Necas, Rask
LW: Skinner, Zykov, McGinn, Foegele
RW: Svechnikov, Teravainen, Williams
Canes top-9 is actually pretty full up. They also have Kuokkanen, Saarela, Gauthier, Nic Roy, Morgan Geekie, Stelio Mattheos, etc. in the AHL all waiting for their chance.
Absolutely Buchnevich, Zib, and Andersson are higher quality than the current Canes depth. But the Canes don’t need an improvement in depth. They need Superstar talent like Svechnikov. Something NYR just doesn’t have to trade.