Now if anyone doubts that he is just trolling...
I only have a few minutes but quickly (could find more with more time) :
- Anderson was injured, we were right in the middle of a playoff race and the team (players, coachs, management) clearly had no confidence in Auld. It could have been disastrous for Lehner confidence to put him in so much pressure as a 19 y/o. Imagine if he ruined the season?
Maybe you are mentally soft like that, but Lehner isn't. Andy was hurt (and was going to be back for the playoffs), and Lehner was playing great in the NHL.
Lehner could have and would have performed every bit as good as Bishop did, if not better. I have no idea why you think this wouldn't be the case.
Even in your unlikely scenario where Lehner ruins the Sens' season, a 10 game stretch doesn't ruin a kid's entire career, sorry. You're wrong.
- Create an internal competition. We only had 1 goalie prospect... Lehner must have felt entitled to his future. It was a wake-up call for him... like "wow a 6'7 guy that has dominated the AHL is now competing with me"
I admitted this was the only good reason. But he still has Andy to compete with.
- Adress a position of weakness (goaltending was a weakness and is now a strenght... Need a drawing? Gerber/Auld/Elliott --> Anderson/Lehner/Bishop)
What was needed was another good goalie prospect, not a 3rd NHL goalie.
- Who the heck do you expect to draft with that 2nd rounder? 2n coming of Mario Lemieux? A guy better than Bishop? No, chances remain very low that we'd develop a better player in 4-5 years.
- We already have ton of prospects, why not use 1 freaking draft pick to add a goalie that is FULLY developped and who has serious potential? Are we seriously going to hurt because we have 1 less 18 y/o prospect but a 25 y/o player instead? (note the difference between prospect and player... 1 is a sure thing, the other is not)
- Bishop is at least still worth a 2nd, maybe we'll get even more if he can raise his stock (hard to do with non-stop lockouts though). He has nothing else to prove in the AHL, he needs some NHL games.
Conclusion : do we really care that much about a 2nd round pick? Ya let's trade Da Costa, Petersson, Ceci, etc for 2nds! It would be awesome
Seriously, it must be cereals, today's youth is incapable of reasoning
We're not talking about characters on a XboX video game but human beings... There's a lot of psychology in real life, sports included. Not sure what you have chosen to study but please don't choose management, you clearly have no skills in that. Your thought process is way too simple.
My thought process is to not waste assets on redundant pieces.
Let's say there was no lockout... imo (and likely Lehner's as well), Lehner is the best goalie in the Sens organization. Do you think he would have been cool sitting in Bingo while 2 inferior goalies were playing in the NHL?
According to your logic, the Sens should trade a 3rd rounder for Francis Bouillon because the pick is unlikely to as good as Bouillon, the Sens have many prospects, and Bouillon is fully developed. OK then. That's a sure way of being a crappy organization in the long run.
Now you'll come back and say there's no need for Bouillon... but at the start of the year, a spot would have been handed to Wiercioch or Borowiecki (and still will be), though both are less deserving than Lehner.
