I was addressing the impatience. It had nothing to do with patience. He was a bad pick no matter how good he turns out to be. The decision to pick him that high wasn't based in reality. It was based on hope. Praising the pick now because he's playing limited #6 minutes is called results oriented thinking which leads to making future bad decisions.
I am just wondering if the Jets identified the type of player he is as a future need. Management knew that Myers and Chiarot were likely going to become unaffordable in free agency. The early years of Stanley on the preseason roster, had him playing with Buff, who also had a shelf life. At some point Buff was going to decline. The Jets achieved success with their big defense. Like St. Louis did. Identifying a player who can have an impact, by using his size, is pretty good drafting to me, especially when you have invested in 4 forwards in the 1st round in 3 drafts. They instantly identified him as a project. And that's what he has been.
Now he is probably the favourite to be lost in the expansion draft. And it would likely cost a draft pick to keep him, if he keeps playing at the level he is.
I'm hoping that his performance keeps him on the team. With Poolman coming back I think it would be hard to take him out. There's a lot of positives to the way he is playing. His performance could reverberate in another defenseman, who was once the darling of these boards, Sami Niku, being waived, for the purpose of being demoted to the taxi squad. So good on Logan Stanley for doing what he was expected to do. Once he gets PK reps, and that will take awhile with Maurice, he should ascend in ice time.
Early results say we won on the Andrew Ladd trade.
