BinCookin
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List names an numbers and it sounds great.
It's great that we give 4th liners a shot.
Maybe it's great to you that guys like Kindl and Smith are getting their chance at 25 or 26 years old.
But cold hard truth is that we haven't produced an impact player since when? Franzen? Howard?
So your point is new young superstar or bust?
I think Nyquist and Tatar are those guys. They are the highest skilled guys we have.
We have been drafting low for a long time. Yes Giroux was low, yes Benn was low. But common. I have to do entirely too much research to prove that the odds detroit had an option to get a superstar were unlikely.
-Do you think Blashill is doing a bad job developing the draft picks?
-Do you think we are drafting stupidly? And that our picks are dumb?
-Do you want Holland to trade these prospects for someone good? (If the prospects are not good, who will trade for them).
I think you are being too tough on a team that really couldnt have drafted much better considering their position.
Maybe we need to discuss what other teams (EVERY other teams) superstar, or at least non-4th liner, taken in the 2nd round (Lets deal with only forwards).
According to HF's we are ranked 11th in prospects. This is pretty good considering we have been drafting about 22nd-26th last 5-6 years.