His record is pretty bad there... he was right on Dobie and Daccord though. Daccord might actually end up a decent starter if he continues from where he left off last season. The black eyes are signing Grubi (who I don't think is as bad as the stats say, but is at very, very best average) and sticking with Ward way too long and trying Lack to force Lack on as the replacement.
The one good thing that happened this postseason was seeing him miss out on his last chance to win a Cup. f*** that guy. Dirty AF and ran his mouth more than three Matthew Tkachuks put together.
Mack is not even in that list....what a bust.
Gio w/ 158
Drai beats him out by 12. Given how much Drai scores, I'd say odds are high he keeps that title... but one of the more competitive races.
another crazy thing that sticks out is the teams with two players they drafted on this list are Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Ottawa. Multiple cups for 2 teams and nothing for one.... Ottawa really should be able to build something with those two guys.
I flipped out for a second that you had Duchene on the list. I had to go back and look. Tavares was born in Sep 90 while Dutch was Jan 91. Tavares is killing him by over 100 goals for the those drafted in the 09 Draft.
Yeah drafts are different just due to the cutoffs. I’d argue Matthews even got shafted a year and probably 35+ goals by being a few days away from being eligible for the 15 draft.
Yeah, this was definitely a fun list to run through and think about. But because it was setup on birth years rather than draft years, it almost felt like the results of a DGB contest. You did warn us you were bored though. Thanks for sharing with us.
The draft year stuff is so weird. Legitimately the only age cutoff in hockey that is not based on calendar year. Guess we can thank the courts for that.
He could have done a lot more in the XD frankly. I also did not like the Hakstol hire. I was hoping the pundits were wrong but he turned out to be exactly what was predicted. Probably takes three more years to get a fair evaluation.
He probably could have, but they made the playoffs and won a round in year 2. That's incredibly good by historical standards with expansion teams. Vegas has just skewed peoples' thoughts so much. The knock on Francis in Carolina is that he was incredibly good at getting a collection of talent, but was never aggressive enough to get them over the hump. The same thing is pretty much happening in Seattle. They honestly have a great collection of young talent. Not elite, but there is a really solid base to build around. He's shied away from moves to get the team over the hump so far. Maybe the signings this summer signal a change?
You don't read the other boards do you.
There's one, single game plan and he's going to live or die with it. The sample is big now, we have seen it against Vegas, Seattle and Dallas.
