My contrarian opinion: if you really believe in Othmann and Sykora to be impact NHLer's, you dont rush them to NHL
God point but we also have like 2 more years where ZIbby + Panarin are in their prime and Igor is cheap.
Sykora won't be ready next season. I think he's 2, likely 3 years away from the NHL truthfully.
I'm starting to think we need to keep BOTH our first round picks and add two forwards to the system for when Panarin is gone and Zibby starts to declines. Hopefully we can still have a good team around Fox, Shesterkin, Miller, and some of Othmann, Laf, Kaako, Chytil.
I'd even keep Sykora in Europe for another year given his smaller frame - in order to continue gaining physical strength before getting exposed to NA hockey. It's not like the Rangers won't have options to move along development hierarchy - who're older and therefore be more prepared in this aspect.
Exactly. You take this kind of a kid in the second knowing you have a lot of development runway compared to his peers in that draft class. He absolutely plays a game that will translate well to the NHL, but it's important not to give these kinds of kids more than they can handle, developmentally. Otherwise, they just learn to use the skills that they currently have to keep their head above water, and true development stalls. We have the luxury of giving these kids time to develop new skills and hone existing ones. We should use it.
Just realized he hasn't posted since Sept 12th, where did he go?
must be a slow time for him hockey wise (too early to scout the junior’s, college and European leagues) and heavy workload at his real job?
He posts on Twitter all the time. I think he has just shifted his focus to Twitter, he has a lot of followers and all that.
