We're really due for one of these diamond in the rough pick ups, since almost all of them have bombed. Not just in recent years, but going back to the last few Lou years with Bobby Butler and D'Agostini and then Olesz. The Rangers seemed to get a decent waiver pick up in Matt Puempel. Another former 2011 first round pick of Ottawa, that was going nowhere. He's by no means great, but he has 7 points in 15 games this year as a Rangers. I feel like the only time one of these has worked out for us recently was Farnham and DSP, and they each had fluke streaks and were really not all that good.
It's really hard to tell what kind of a player Noesen might be at the NHL level, as he only has played 15 career games and has averaged a whopping 6 minutes and 50 seconds over his first 14 games. That's 35 seconds more than Gazdic over his career.
I'm not asking for a Taylor Hall or even a Palmieri or Parenteau here, but I just want someone that's better than the Kalinin's, DSP's, Fiddler's, Josefson's, etc, of the organization.