Thorny

There’s definitely a mental transition from earlier years where we were conditioned to think we needed to flood the system with prospects to emerge victorious by quantity. Once the system is more established the mindset necessarily shifts to utilizing said pool as currency The better you are at drafting the easier it gets over time. We don’t really need any more prospects yet we get a free 7 every year. With less holes to fill, that puts us in a much better spot than a few years ago once/IF we get the main club up to par and it’s getting closer

Good post. I think I agree with the conclusion of your “weird thing” at the end, too

Is this just a goals thing though? It’s impressive regardless, and im not going to check them all, but we seem to be cherry picking a bit as im not sure I’d call, say, Point’s season similar. He only had 4 more goals, sure, but he also had 55% more assists Aho had 83 points. JJ had 50. There’s a sizeable gap there Tho, I’d imagine JJ probably played on an inferior squad

Jeez I feel like my memory starts with RJ

Hopefully without the egregious diving McDavid and Draisaitl were sort of PP fiends eh

And I feel like Benson is primarily a playmaker Edit - I see this has been covered But he is Ben Affleck I stand by that part

Sorry, quote from Role Models. doesn’t mean anything

This is the most I can ever remember the board being so nearly unanimously in favour of moving picks and prospects even the good ones. Definitely saying something.

So some good players there and Ristolainen.. not bad

I said it’s possible and we should do it, not that we will. Teams definitely treat firsts like gold

They both white, they both Ben Affleck

Because 1st round picks are drastically overvalued Have you seen the movie Draft Day with Kevin Costner? It’s really good. If you watch that you’ll see what I mean not in terms of my post it has nothing to do with that, it’s just a really good movie, you’ll see

I’m calling shenanigans on that. Not for JUST a 1st, but considering where our first falls I think it’s easily the most expensive piece in a trade for a legit top 6 f

Oh.you mean Shenanigans? oooooooooooo! - - -

Did you say, “yes sir?” or was that “ya, sure.”? (We will ruin this thread lol)