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It's actually subtraction by subtraction. We'd be losing 2 2nd rd draft picks. In the middle of a rebuild.He is taking up a roster spot. Addition by subtracting
It's actually subtraction by subtraction. We'd be losing 2 2nd rd draft picks. In the middle of a rebuild.He is taking up a roster spot. Addition by subtracting
It's actually subtraction by subtraction. We'd be losing 2 2nd rd draft picks. In the middle of a rebuild.
A saving grace here is that they selected Hronek with the additional pick in that trade. Hronek could have been selected ahead of Smith though, as many analysts thought he was a big reach at #46, and he's proving that now.
But I suppose that trade helps the current tank efforts, that's a plus! It might hurt when trying to lock up young talent down the road though.
Nyquist, Duchene, Panarin, Skinner, Dzingel, Hayes, Nelson, Lee, Karlsson, Zuccarello, Ferland, Eberle, Myers, Gardiner, Simmonds are all younger and better than either Nielsen or Abdelkader.
Lot's of hot takes here....
Smith has had a good second half to the season and he is going to take a little bit of development time. He doesn't have zero chance at making the show, lots of people said this kind of stupid **** about Bertuzzi for a few years after his draft and even into his time with the Griffins. It is way too early to take that run.
Hronek is a part of the trade anyway you cut it.
Chychrun will be lucky to be Brad Stuart later in his career in this league. He doesn't have the kind of offensive chops you're saying. Exactly the reason he feel is what he looks like in the NHL. I am much more afraid we traded away Fabbro if we want to play this game, we don't need that kind of defender in any event and collected two with similar profiles in the second round over the last two drafts in terms of nice frame with physical elements and plus skating in McIsaac and Lindstrom. Chychrun is a very good skater and physically he seems to have been mature since he was 16, but his problem remains hockey IQ and that is a tough one to correct. Perhaps he will get the right partner.
Dude is a #4, an upgraded DeKeyser, why are we bemoaning having two higher ceiling players and cap space in a trade with him? Now if Fabbro blows up, well yeah that kind of puck mover is what we were looking for, that is why we took the two guys we did in the draft, higher hockey IQ and better vision factored heavily into that choice in my opinion.
I imagine I was one of the biggest fans of Chychrun in his draft year on this site... and at this point I don’t even think I’d trade Hronek straight up for him... nevermind Cholowski.
The scouting done on Hronek while he was playing only 8 min a night against men in his draft year is one of the more impressive things this franchise has done in the draft in awhile.
I’ll give credit where it’s due here.