Not even going to bother with the thread on the main board...
I believe in McPhee and feel that he is building an expansion team from scratch the way it should be done in the salary cap era. The return may seem underwhelming, but in the big picture I'm still happy - I thought we all knew that many of the players chosen in the expansion draft would be long gone before we start to compete.
We weren't going to keep all 30 of the selected players, so by my count we're now at:
24 expansion players left
7 additional players/prospects
two more 1st rd picks
five more 2nd rd picks
one more 3rd rd pick
one more 4th rd pick
two more 5th rd picks
one more 6th rd pick
Minus: one 3rd rd pick, one 4th rd pick, one 7th rd pick
We've turned 6 of the expansion draft slots into 9 draft picks and 7 players, 6 of whom still have waiver eligibility - I'll take it!
Don't know why you don't hang on to him until the TDL if that's the return.
What if Methot gets injured or has an awful year? Because if that happened, you know people would have been upset and said, "Why didn't McPhee trade him before the season started when he had the chance?"
Really bad especially considering we took 2 goalies before this guy so team obviously isnt that high on the kid it seems puzzling to me
That's fine - you have to stagger the development and accumulate prospects. We've got three 18-year-old goalie prospects now: Zhukov will be going to NCAA, Patera will stay in Europe, and Ferguson will be in the CHL. They'll all likely be on different development curves/timelines, so I've got no problem with getting as many goalie prospects as possible so that you increase your chances of one of them panning out.