It may be a hot take but I'm starting to feel Madden and the scouting team are a tad overrated, especially when I look at teams like Dallas or Colorado and their uncanny ability to seem to draft superstars. I don't think we have any superstars and as much as I like Sennecke I doubt he is going to be worth the 3rd overall they used on him, time will tell but the whiffs are starting to add up.
Wasn't happy at the time of the pick, after McTavish's first NHL season I was feeling better, but the fact McTavish is the same player now as he was in game 1 of his NHL career while pretty much every player from pick 4 to 9 has improved quite a bit year on year is extremely worrying.
To be clear - you have a good feeling about the Ducks game, or about getting home in time to see it in its entirety?
Colorado haven't drafted a top 6 forward since Ratanen which was nearly 10 years ago, heck outside of Makar in that time their drafting has been pretty terrible for the best part of a decade. And you could argue the only top 4 defenceman they have drafted in that same time is Makar (and maybe Byram).
I agree. We haven't done well with forwards. Guys like Carlsson and Z were no-brainers. I still like Mctavish a lot but you could argue they should've taken somebody else. Sennecke could be good or bad, too early to say right now, but they'd better gotten it right. Sometimes the sheer amount of games played metric played by our drafted forwards is thrown around here as evidence that we've done well. I hate that as a justification because it's quantity over quality and we've had bad teams for a while so guys are gonna get in games here that they wouldn't have elsewhere (this kind of applies more to the Steels and Joneses i'd say. Maybe Lundy too).
Yeah, I'll be happy if he can make simple passes off the boards to aid exits out of the d-zone. I am expecting him to forecheck like crazy and carry that load, hopefully opening stuff up for Leo and Killorn. The cherry on top would be some nice play around the net.
