FinlandPanther
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There was this guy named John Tavares who regressed a lot. He really sucks.he only just caught up to the pace he had as a 17 yr old and were favorably looking at him right after a hat trick. in a few games there should be some regression. that aside, there's absolutely nothing good about tying ur goal scoring rate from your draft year. we can take all the examples in the world where some busted and some didn't but it doesn't change the fact that its not a good thing that he hasn't blown away his previous goal pace. would anyone here be unhappy if tippett had more than a goal per game like debrincat did? everyone would be saying he's the goal scorer we've long been after and batting would be stat watching him all year and posting more than he already does. u think preds fans are not happy that tolvanen wreaks havoc on the khl? they're loving it. its only logical that a player scoring a ton no matter what league they're in should be looked at as better than not scoring a ton. I can't believe this needs to be explained. and even if tippett had improved his goal rate I feel I can't stress this enough, we need help now. not in 3-4 yrs. his best drunken projections from his gf would only have him as a 30 goal scorer in 3-4 yrs. that barely helps our core. so if were going to trade him anyway, we should have taken a better overall player who would have given us a better return and better players were available. not in hindsight, in plain sight. that's all I'm saying. not saying tippett is the worst and I hate gingers, so relax. this is a sober reading of our situation and his. that 50 point projection of him in the nhl sounds close to right even though they didn't have this seasons #s to work with. and 50 points is likely around 22G 28A. that's not what were looking for. we drafted him to get a 35 goal scorer. him working on his defense is irrelevant at this point. if he's not going to score 35 goals by 2 yrs from now, he's not what we need right now and shouldve been traded for a proven scorer or a legit D man with 2+ yrs under contract in a package deal by the deadline to address the playoff push and the next couple yrs. this is assuming the owners will actually spend the cap going fwd. but I suspect keeping all of our prospects means they wont be. and i dont believe for a second that we couldnt have made a trade without including borgstrom. we have plenty of chips but did nothing. just like we did nothing last offseason (more harm than good) and and thus have no reason to believe anything will be done this upcoming one. so more of the same for us I guess.