Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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Yep.
We have an 8th overall invested in Pouliot, not to mention we gave Staal up and that pick was a big part of the value.
Joe Morrow may be our most physically gifted prospect.
Beau Bennett is our only quality wing prospect.
Simon Despres is our most NHL ready prospect and has a unique combination of size, speed, physicality and offense.
Ideally we shouldn't move those 4.
Dumoulin, Harrington etc. are good prospects but probably don't have as high of a ceiling as Despres, Morrow and Pouliot. Maatta to me is the middle ground between the two groups. He probably has more upside than Harrington and Dumoulin if he pans out so he is quality but he's also more expendable than the top 4 prospects Bennett, Morrow, Despres and Pouliot. I think he is the best quality, high upside prospect we can offer.
I agree with this, Maatta is the bridge between those two groups, he's neither here nor there and because of that, I think people are ok with moving him in a deal. Because you lose him, we still have Dumoulin and Harrington as solid defensive defensemen but then we have Pouliot and Morrow as well and then the guys that aren't mentioned that could develop into something more, or hey, maybe something less.