i doubt barbashev will be up for grabs at 19th.
how does honka at 19th and possibly goldobin at 28th sound?
Low interest in goldobin myself not saying typical russian but needs work in d end and struggles with physicality. That is not the way we are building this team. Maybe can overcome those issues but to me since he does have them I would much rather move back down acquire more picks if he was the best guy available.
Think you have to be careful with him am sure though if we like him murray and stevie etc.. have and will talk to him make sure he will do what is necessary to become a force in NHL.
He seems to have a high hockey IQ at least offensively. He has the dekes and moves and will score and is for sure a very high level player wise as a play maker of the future. Saying in english he really sees the ice well and if has the puck he is seriously dangerous if plays with high level talented team mates.
So with him the reward would be good if he will play the style we will demand. If not he would be a bust type of deal for us and have to move him down the road even though the offensive side of the game is there for us if wanted him.
So is all about the evaluation and how the scouts feel about his inconsistency to play defense and sacrifice on that end for his team etc. I personally wouldnt take the risk but we never know what murray or stevie think and i trust them if they go after him they believe they can mold him to be what we need for the future.
We have a lot of top level scoring guys. We need that to be balanced and all the scoring talent in world does not win you cups in todays nhl maybe one like pittsburgh but they seem few and far between.
So yes I personally like the kid but is a dislike for tampa. At least is a wary feeling of hmmm this will not be really a safe pick.
We really need this picks to work out with what we truly lost. Now a lot of that depends on marty's future but I still think he goes another 3 years at least. So that makes what we got for him a lot less than we maybe view it to be.
I view what we got for MSL not a home run. Maybe a double. We should have won the world series trading MSL so we cant screw up the first rounders we get at all.
We need at least grand slams since imho we got less than deserved by a lot.
Not saying stevie didnt pull a miracle he did. Yet is still not even remotely close to enough.
P.S. Mortgage Broker and Space manatee welcome to forum glad to have more fans
To MB no dont see us moving up don't see stevie willing to give up pieces we have really done well at draft and really can use the bodies to develop in the future.
