Reading his write up on the Hockey Writers, feels like a guy who can give you point production on the 3rd line while being a power play specialist. If he's more than that well then that's awesome. Kind of a modern day Jiri Hudler but with better skating of course.
Yup but what our brass said how he can play up and down the line+PP/PK and praising his passing, his whole package reminds me a lot more of Filppula than Hudler. Both will be fine though.
Really, I don't see a lot of meh or WTF Here are our 2nd round picks since 2021
I guess it depends on how much excitement you want to generate for guys that may fall into a bottom six role. If any of them see NHL playing time it makes them a good pick, but of the lot of them I only see Augustine and Wallinder as having the potential to be impact players among our second rounders.
Your response sums it up pretty well: he was a projected 3rd rounder taken early in the 2nd round of a very deep draft. If you swapped his and AlJo's selections I don't think anyone would have cared. There were still some higher quality players available where Tuo was picked.
I remember first time seeing Tuomisto after we just drafted him. My reaction was, OMG why would you take him , but he gets better, still don't expect him to play any games in NHL.
