Our 2019 and 2020 1st rounders are Boldy and Rossi. 2021 is Wallstedt and Lambos. Almost the entirety of the rest of the picks are in the NHL or AHL. Leads me to ask, but have you seen from 2019-2021?
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Rossi is apparently on the trade block, Boldy as good as he is, disappears for stretches and we've heard for the past two years that we've needed to get another winger for him. Lambos has been a major disappointment. Wally is probably the better of the group.
Outside of that? Firstov is gone, Jones is gone, Beckman has not developed, Guskov is gone, Warren is gone, Nesterenko did not want to sign with the organization, Lindberg did not want to sign with the organization.
Khusnutdinov has finally joined, we'll see how he develops. O'Rourke was meh, Hunt was decent, Novak is done.
Peart had a pretty disappointing season in the NCAA, Bankier and Masters were meh (until probably the end). Pillar was traded. Benoit - uh...no idea.
Running it back from 2014, Minnesota has zero players from 2014, 2 players from 2015 (thank God for Kaprizov in that draft), zero players from 2016, 1 player I think from 2017, 0 players from 2018, 1 player from 2019 (I don't see anything from Beckman to make me think he'll stick around any longer than he has).
The redemption maybe 2020 and maybe 2021, but who knows. None of the guys really made an impact or stood out in the AHL. For a good chunk of the season, the team was a disaster. They were tied for the third worst team in terms of GA (only Chicago behind them were worse, San Diego was the same). They were also the second worst team in terms of GF, only Bridgeport was worse.
Beckman can't even crack 25 goals in the AHL.
O'Rourke was a -30.
Oh don't worry! The person responsible for this mess got promoted to AGM.
Either they aren't bringing in the veterans to help, the development team just sucks at their job or they aren't identifying players that translate their skills to the AHL.