This has been arguably the craziest start to an offseason in franchise history. Given the Hamilton fiasco, McQuaid re-signing and Rinaldo trades, have the other moves taken you off the edge at all?
Everything regarding the Lucic trade seems to be coming up Bruins. The Zboril pick looks to be the most level of all first rounders. Miller is borderline NHL talent, and if anything, upgrades and replaces everything Bartkowski. The San Jose pick has a better chance to be in the lottery than ours as things stand. And a big, fast center lottery ticket. Great trade.
The other draft picks besides Zboril? Honestly the last 3 drafts looks pretty solid for us, I'm willing to give the scouting team the benefit of the doubt here. I think they saw something in DeBrusk/Senyshyn while scouting for 14/37 going into the draft and decided to stick to their guys. The 2012 draft gave us Subban, who does still have decent value same as Grzelcyk. 2013 has Arnesson and Blidh under ELC's, with Celharik looking to have some value as well. 2014 obviously has Pastrnak. Heinen was second in NCAA freshman scoring behind Eichel. Drafting might suddenly be a strong suit of this team. It sucks to lose out of potential blue chippers like Barzal and Connor, but they might have thought DeBrusk and Senyshyn were NHL talent enough to play it safe.
Smith + Savard (3.4 + 4.0). Belesky + Hayes (3.8 + RFA) Pretty clear win here, I don't know how else to put it.
There is still a lot of work to do, but there is suddenly a lot of money and prospect talent to get it done.
Everything regarding the Lucic trade seems to be coming up Bruins. The Zboril pick looks to be the most level of all first rounders. Miller is borderline NHL talent, and if anything, upgrades and replaces everything Bartkowski. The San Jose pick has a better chance to be in the lottery than ours as things stand. And a big, fast center lottery ticket. Great trade.
The other draft picks besides Zboril? Honestly the last 3 drafts looks pretty solid for us, I'm willing to give the scouting team the benefit of the doubt here. I think they saw something in DeBrusk/Senyshyn while scouting for 14/37 going into the draft and decided to stick to their guys. The 2012 draft gave us Subban, who does still have decent value same as Grzelcyk. 2013 has Arnesson and Blidh under ELC's, with Celharik looking to have some value as well. 2014 obviously has Pastrnak. Heinen was second in NCAA freshman scoring behind Eichel. Drafting might suddenly be a strong suit of this team. It sucks to lose out of potential blue chippers like Barzal and Connor, but they might have thought DeBrusk and Senyshyn were NHL talent enough to play it safe.
Smith + Savard (3.4 + 4.0). Belesky + Hayes (3.8 + RFA) Pretty clear win here, I don't know how else to put it.
There is still a lot of work to do, but there is suddenly a lot of money and prospect talent to get it done.