Goalies are hard. Knight hasn’t even proven himself yet. Remember when Hart was supposed to be the next Price?
Fair. However, goalies take longer to develop. So if we plan on our fwds and Ds be ready to dominate say in x years, we need to have drafted on this goalie multiple years before the fwds were drafted for the timing to work. Fwds may be ready at age 21, goaies at age 24 if we're lucky. So I don t see how waiting for say the 2024 draft to draf a G in round 1 makes sense. I would go ape shit after Askarov by trade yesterday.
we have to use a 1st to draft a quality goalie right? So might as well trade a 1st for one....
Florida also thought he was barely worth a 3rd round pick, and was going to let Knight stew, but then the VP Communications read this thread and they decided to sign him just to spite us.
UNLESS it's for another young piece......like let's say for ARGUMENTS sake......Habs deal the Floriday 1st and Mysak for Jiricek......that I would do. (that type of trade)
I hear you and you make some sense, but for some people, there is not a player in the league other than perhaps McDavid that is worth more than the new player we might draft with a 1st rounder in the future. And McDavid is too old for their planned rebuild timeline anyway, so his cap hit is not worth it for us.
It's difficult call. I always like core goalie. In past, We always seem to overachiever in playoffs with them. Roy, Price, Dryden, etc ... But goalies hard to judge.
