Rome was not built in a day. Every team is in the same boat, some of these guys will pan out & some will not. Every player gets older every yr, every team has veterans who are aging & lots of good older players around the league are on their way out. Some will reach or exceed their potential & some will not. That's just the way it is with every yr & with every draft, some of us prefer to look at the Sens prospect list with a "glass half full" attitude as opposed to a "glass half empty". Who knows what will happen & who will step out or who will not. Why focus on the negative?
For those that keep complaining about not having a first rd pick next yr may be the same people who complained about not having a 2nd rd pick in this draft. Low & behold Ottawa trades down four spots & gets a 2nd rd pick in return. They have an entire yr to acquire a first rd pick for next yr with lots of assets to deal with in the organization to acquire one should they wish to make a deal for one whether it's in the top 10 or later will depend on what they decide to trade. IMO Ottawa has a decent list of prospects at almost every position & while some of them may not be elite, some may surprise & you need players for every line & every pairing & they added to that this weekend. No team has elite players at every position & every team only has a couple or few of them. Ottawa has an opportunity that a couple of theirs have that potential same as everybody else. Tkachuk may never become an elite player but he could push Brown or someone else to be which is every bit as good.
Chabot, Brown, Batherson, Formenton, Chlapik, Tkachuk, Paul, Gagne, Luchuk, Jaros, Wolanin, Harpur, Englund, Lajoie, Docker, Tychonick, Gustavsson, Hogberg & others.
That's almost an entire team, I prefer to be optimistic about this group.
