Kasper is not going to be elite player, but I believe, because he is smart and plays like power forward he could be very good support for more skilled wingers .
Seriously where is this guy getting consistent 20 goals from? This guy can't score goals in the AHL and couldn't score them in the SHL
Should be when you’re drafting someone top 10.
At the end of the day, you must have highly skilled forwards. What we draft are character complementary players.
No, what we have done is to spend high draft capital on a very important position that we can't easily find in the trade or UFA markets: centers. He may have some limitations in parts of his game, but the kids absolutely projects as a center.
I also find it a bit confusing that several fans complain about how much our prospects are scoring, when the current roster in Detroit has a top 5 offense and a bottom 5 defense.
I think it's fair to question how sustainable that top 5 goals for output is over the next few years.
It may not be, but if we have learned anything in the last seven years it is that centers don't grow on trees. If you want them, you need to go draft them, repeatedly. I like our chances of finding a good offensive winger in the trade or UFA markets a lot better than our chances of finding a competent center there.
I mean it took us how long and how many years of struggling to score goals before we were able to trade for a player like DeBrincat? I get what you are saying. Drafting surefire centers is nice. But if those surefire centers top out as 3rd liners, it doesn't really make a difference either.
And how long and how much cap space did we invest to find someone who could play #2C? Do we even have a true #2C today?
Kasper had a better D+1 season at 18 than Veleno's D+3 at 21. Even his much critisied AHL season will end up better than any Veleno's season.
A bit off topic here, but Raymond's ceiling is far higher than 50-60. He should be in the 60-65 point range this year, and spent most of the season on the 2nd PP unit, and for whatever reason Lalonde doesn't put him on the ice late in games when we need a goal. Once his opportunity increases, and he continues to improve his game, Raymond should be a point per game player.
I think that’s more circumstantial as opposed to being an indictment on Zegras, but you know that.
That was my choices at the draft, but now I believe Yzerman did better.
