Beaucoup de potentiel ici, j’espère qu’ils feront les bonnes photos
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Therealfern1
@Blackhawks de Chicago
Beaucoup de potentiel ici, j’espère qu’ils feront les bonnes photos
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Therealfern1
7 Comments
Give Dallas however many they want for Robertson. That’s all I ask, man.
I love draft picks and the prospect drafting and scouting process. The fact of the matter though is they are just vaporware, just hopes and dreams until they hit. The draft pick itself is only the first stage. Development is the second. Not everyone comes up ready to rock in the NHL.
Between contract # limits and bust rates of 18 year olds, I like KDs way of operating that quality>>>quantity. I legit expect him to move a full third of the picks we currently have. And I’m okay with that.
Not getting that panthers first this year is going to be tough, was hoping that’d be part of a trade for a top 6 winger ahead of the draft
Robertson, Robert Thomas, ….. I am patient and willing to wait for the rebuild and development. We are only on the third wave of prospects and prospects take 1-4 years to develop. However, with all the picks and prospects if the right player becomes available under the age of 28, replacing Foligno with a younger leader type vet is not out of the question.
KD has drafted 1 star so far (Bedard), with Frondell being maybe the only other guy soon. I’m not exactly beeming with confidence you’ll get a star outside the top 3/with the picks.
Hope he can repackage some of these picks into younger NHL players that could use a scenery change.
I will always admit that I am a massive homer so take this with a grain of salt but something to keep in mind as we enter another spring looking towards the future rather than a playoff run:
The NHLers getting mentioned in this very thread that people think the Hawks should target like Robertson (2nd rounder; 39th OA), Thomas (1st rounder; 20th OA), Knies (2nd rounder; 57th OA), etc. were all relatively high picks but *far* from lottery picks or consensus studs heading into their drafts. These are guys that were acquired by their teams through the exact kind of assets that Davidson has been stockpiling like a madman for four years now – is it really crazy to believe we may have already found our own similar steals in the draft, or at least still could find them with the million picks still coming up?
Kantserov and Lardis already seem to be steals. Rinzel has been trending very well long term. Nestrašil and Behm have been early risers since last draft, etc. The nature of the draft means we are likely to have very frustrating misses up top, like Korchinski seems to be trending, but with the volume of picks we made we’re also improving our odds tremendously at hitting home runs on later picks.
There is a fuck ton of positive growth in the pool overall through today and likely more to come. The oldest drafted forwards currently on the Hawks are Greene and Nazar, both a young 22 years old, with the former being a rookie and the latter being a sophomore after spending half of last year in the AHL and at least half of this season being injured lol once more draftees start hitting the NHL and reaching their primes I won’t be shocked at all if we have several studs behind Bedard that other fanbases are salivating at the idea of trading for, like with Robertson and Thomas today.
Edit: I know models like this have their issues so also definitely take *this* with a grain of salt, but just to illustrate the point I’m trying to make, [here are some examples of how a few of our guys have been trending compared to the NHLers being discussed](https://www.reddit.com/u/JD397/s/zduGFbt9tN)
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