DaveMatthew
Bring in Peter
Absolutely, but if you can’t be hopeful about prospects over and over again, it may be time to give up being a sports fan!! Haha...
This group is pretty exciting, Cowen and Rundy, sure, but I don’t think anyone was excited about Lee, and Weir was never exciting to me either. We did have Lehner, which was good, but we have at least 3 goalie prospects right now that are looking good, and a couple dark horses.
Perhaps it’s the depth of quality at those two positions that is most exciting. We actually have room for a bust or two and still have a solid core group, with two more massive drafts to add more.
With Chabot, Branstrom, and Thompsen, I’m more stoked about our D than I have been since Redden and Chara and Phillips. Throw JBD in there as well and I personally haven’t been this hopeful for a group.
Anyways, I’m naturally positive, and I enjoy being hopeful about my sports teams. This young group, and the ground up rebuild (finally) has me looking forward to following along.
It's easy to say they weren't that exciting in hindsight, but at the time, there was a ton of hype.
This board is littered with the corpses of the next big thing: Wiercioch, Zubov, Kaigorodov, Regin, Lee, Lazar, Puempel, Cowen, Petersson, O'Brien, Eaves, Chouinard, etc.
They were all talked about the way we talk about Batherson, Formenton, Thomsen, Bernard-Docker, today.
Most prospects do not live up to the hype. Thomsen and Bernard-Docker are much more likely to be Meszaros and Lee than Redden and Phillips.
It's fine to be hopeful, but realistic expectations are key.