Which rookies would you rather build around for future?

[Golden_Jet]

Yep he skews the #'s in Ottawa's favour for sure, but they can't even get the second spot.. most people are taking LA over them as well

Ottawa 85%, how do you get that

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Smith is good, he’ll likely be a very good top-4 d-man in the future similar to Ellis.
Kuokkanen I envision as a solid top-6 forward like Marcus Johansson.
Sharangovich I see him as a solid middle-6 player going forward.
Bastian and Bahl look like they’ll be bottom-6/bottom pairing D respectively.

Compare that to Ottawa who has Stützle which speaks for itself, Norris as a top-6 forward, Formenton as a 3rd liner, Zub as a top-4 then JBD as a bottom pairing guy.

Even if you take out Stützle, it would likely be Ottawa anyway.

I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying, I'm not saying they should be ahead of Ottawa, even to me they are clearly the best list here.
the fact that they aren't solidly in 2nd is the issue for me, because I see these lists and think it's obviously NJ and Ottawa.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Ottawa 85%, how do you get that

how do I get what?

 

[Golden_Jet]

how do I get what?

It kinda reads like you say LA is ahead of Ottawa in the quoted part.

 

[Lays]

Shesterkin is like 40 years old

Still a rookie and the same age as Sorokin, and one year older than Kaprizov. Take out Shesterkin and NYR’s rookie pool would still be #1

 

[HugeInTheShire]

It kinda reads like you say LA is ahead of Ottawa in the quoted part.

I see that now, I was talking NJ but I totally see where the misunderstanding comes in

 

[spiny norman]

Lopsided result.