According to how the war goes. If it goes bad between Russia and the West. Where it is deep draft he may slide. If Allen looks like Fox at year's end would a team pass on future Adam Fox for better player but uncertain if he ever gets here. Difficult choice. In one hand you have Adam Fox, in the other a maybe Ovechkin.
They should wait another year and see how the goalie prospects they have look. Primeau, Dobes, Dichow, Vrbetic.
They are good value picks in the late rounds. Our goaltending prospects make our prospects pool pretty underrated IMO.
No one will replace legendary Price, anyone expecting our next starters to be Price level caliber are desillisional. But we still have some good ones in the system that have the potential to become solid starters. Also, the team is headed in the right direction and there is a good chance our young goalies benefit from having better teams in front than Price ever had.
True. There is no need to draft a goaltender early unless you think he is the next star goaltender. But in the later rounds if there is nothing out there that interests HuGo then a goaltender is a good bet.
I completely agree and even stated that the post price era will probably be reminiscent of the post Dryden era in terms of length before you land another superstar goalie. (I'm not counting the Habs out of landing a great goalie who is good enough to take the torch from Price who took it from Roy, who took it from Dryden, who took it Plante and so on. Theyve gotten so lucky in their history with super elite goalies that it wouldn't surprise me to see it happen again 5-10 years after Price is gone, which would be when Suzuki is probably around 40 lol. But you don't need that calibre of goalie to win the cup as we've seen in the past decade or so. It was also interesting when Hughes said no one in the organization is no.1 calibre so I'm curious to see if they prefer the trade/FA route to obtain a good goalie. Not desirable but could still work depending on the player and contract
I agree you don't need one. I think I elided to that. I just said with Habs hood fortunates in obtaining all time goalies, I'm gonna put my money on them getting that calibre of goaltender in the next 15-20 years
We really don't... I know the last 2 times we won a Stanley Cup was because a goalie stole them for us but ultimately, aside from Tampa Bay, all the latest Stanley Cup winners had a goalie that got hot but wasnt anything special.
Not hoping for this kid to be anything less than amazing but Ive never felt that the kid was generational like some have said. I still think he'll be the 1OA but this draft will be remembered for its top 5ish and not by a single player, even if that player becomes a superstar
For the little i watched of Michkov, i had a slight preference for him over Bedard but there’s no way he could get picked before him. Other than those two, no players are on their level.
Leo Carlsson is intriguing, 6"3 center, was the best Swedish foward in the 2 games Ive watched at the Hlinka 2 yrs ago, looked better than Ohgren, Lekki ect. Fantilli I will have to watch more.
Yes. Carlsson is already my favorite prospect of the 2023 draft, i don’t think he’s Bedard or Michkov level but i would be very very very happy if we end up with him!
Yep, didnt like Dvorsky much either. Im only saying that its a strong draft at the top and that Bedard has things to work on. But the shooting skills are amazing and he moves well out there.
