I mean, it's less about positive and negative and more saying what it is. Zadina right now isn't ready to be an NHL player. That has nothing to do with the ceiling that he had on draft night. There has been nothing in his game that is impugning his ceiling or should be making you think something different. If you liked the pick at the draft, you should like it now. If they weren't already taking up Rasmussen, Sulak, Cholo, Hronek, etc. Zadina probably makes the roster. If he was a C like Ehn, he definitely makes the roster.
It's kind of like how a stock like Apple will take a beating for a bad earnings quarter. They'll shave off 10-20% of their value, but the fundamentals that make it a blue chip stock are still there. I think that Zadina is still the 40 goal future guy to be and I'm not remotely worried about him needing time to adjust to the league.
It's more frustrating to read, ad infintum, people ****ing about the fact that we didn't take Evan Bouchard or Noah Dobson or whoever. That how on Earth could we take a WING of all things when we need a defenseman.
And really, the bigger thing is the contingent of guys who want Zadina up on the Wings for good when he's done nothing to show that he deserves it right at this second. That it somehow is some tragic miscarriage of justice that Wade Megan gets a game or two and poor Filip Zadina gets to work on his game in Grand Rapids.
I mean, this would be like complaining that your hot shot startup company that has great backing and a solid fundamental business plan hasn't turned a profit in its first month of business. Like I said, give it till January. If Zadina is still laboring and looking unimpressive by then, I'll join you on the criticism tour. But I don't know how you can see roughly three total weeks of hockey and draw many negative conclusions about a guy who just moved up big time in league skill.