I'm not really sure where that player is coming from anytime soon, though, and I'd also prefer that Ferraro is allowed to play on the left side next to a right-shooting defenseman, not another lefty on his off side. Since Benning kind of sucks, that's why my vote is for Karlsson.
This is one of the reasons I wanted the Sharks to claim Phil Myers. He’s showed some promise in Philly and then was injured in NSH. Think he could have been a good partner for Ferraro.
I like to think I'm the #2 fan in Braun's fan club (behind Bret Hedican, of course), so I'd have been in favor of that since it's not like we have any right-shooting defensemen in the system ready to go who'd be blocked by him. I was really impressed by Braun's work with the Rangers, playing on his off side in the playoffs alongside a (pretty good) rookie.
Is there ever really a wrong place to smugly crow "I TOLD YOU SO!!!" and try to make Sharks fans feel shittier about themselves and their team?
If we get a goal scorer ala Bedard, Michkov, Fantilli, or Carlsson in this draft I think Eklund is a perfect guy to compliment them though. He won't be a dominant force on his own, but can be an amazing set up guy. Even if he plays games this year he could thrive next to a guy like Meier who shoots everything.
It’s been one season where Eklund was bounced around more than a check from a homeless person. You know who else had horrible D+1 seasons? Timo Meier, Erik Karlsson.
Guenther is already playing in the NHL.
What the hell man? You know who else is in the NHL on Arizona? McBain, Macceli, O’Brien, Fischer, Bjugstad, Hayton, Ritchie, Kassian. None of these guys are good. And these are just the forwards. Just because a joke of a franchise called up a guy doesn’t mean much. You must be new here. Like f*** off with this shit. You wanna back up your point at all or you just going to be an overall asshat?
Except Guenther has been really good. It's not like he's some charity case getting games for the hell of it. The goal he scored last night was filthy.
Torrey Mitchell scored absolutely highlight reel goal of the season candidates too. It’s 5 games in. Let’s pump the brakes a bit on calling people mistakes in the draft. There was talk of Eklund going 1st overall. Give him more than 13 games in North America.
Got it. Overall asshat. Congrats!
Comparing Guenther and his pedigree to Torrey Mitchell is a joke. Nobody is writing off Eklund but it’s entirely possible his impressive draft year was a bit of an outlier due to various factors. He was not thought of as a top five pick contender going into that year IIRC. He should still develop into a good top six forward but Guenther and especially Clarke are tracking to be higher impact guys.
Eklund was thought of as a top 5 pick (kind of). It was one of those though like Leo Carlsson this year where it’s like he COULD break into the top 3 and some people have him there but that’s not necessarily the consensus. Now a part of that was because no one really jumped out from that draft.
