Around the League Thread | November Rain
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Bedard is really the first of the prospects upfront. With vlasic as the first on the backend. Going to have to endure most of the losing until the other pieces develop.
TT, Hall, Bertuzzi are not what they once were.
Not unlike guys like Larkin in Det. Bo here. Zegras in Ana. Takes its toll mentally over time.
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Chicago is a desirable city, so they shouldn't have too much trouble attracting support for Bedard and Co as they age. Unfortunately their targets to date have been a pretty big flop.
Ufa is a hard sell. They went hard after Guentzal but he opted for TB? Can you blame him? Weather , taxes, good team.
Guys are not going to sign to lose for the next 2-3 seasons when they have options.
Top line guys are rare like a Panarin, Tavares, to hit ufa. And those guys had their destination in mind.
Bedard is going to have to deal with missing the PO for his first 4 pro years. Only way they get to the PO in 27 is for something outside their organization to land on their doorsteps or someone hits right away in a big way.
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Last rebuild, when Chicago got Kane 1st OA, he was the final piece of the puzzle.
They'd already pulled a ton of pieces out of the draft or via trade that would form the core of their dynasty: Toews, Sharpe, Seabrook, Keith, Byfuglian, Hjalmarsson, Bolland, Crawford....
Bedard isn't going to be so lucky.....drafting now appears mediocre at best.
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True enough, they'll likely be limited to the B tier guys like a Toffoli until their homegrown talent begins to show something.
Any one know how Levshunov had looked? He's in Rockford this year isn't he?
Bedard, Nazar, Moore were 3 first round C all sub 6 feet. It’s going to just take some time. Unlike Ana I think they get more aggressive sooner than later.
Missed PO for 4 straight seasons now. Were still trying to win with Bowman and that Jones move in 2021.
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The big Chicago rebuild they aimed for the bottom, planned for it. The GM at the time stated "You HAVE to be bad before you can be good" That was Tallon. He also did that in Florida and then they made some massive trades and signed some hellish good FA's. In Florida apart from taxes they are pretty much outside of the media and public eye on a personal level.
Star level players are mostly achieved through the draft, Pittsburgh's core for the last 12+years and they could have still had Fleury, was drafted in a 4 year period of bottom feeding, Letang, Fleury, Crosby and Malkin, Staal, they went through 5 coaches during that time. They went from losing in the conference finals, 3 years on the bottom then back to conference finals again.
The Canucks are stuck in the mushy almost middle with not quite the right mix to become contenders for a cup. Making the playoffs should be easy, half the teams in the league do but to be "that" team that goes there or has a reasonable expectation for an extended time takes pain and a firm plan. Not just a "we will see how it goes" or re-signing the same core players over and over again because they are known in the market and then wondering if they will get a different outcome is ....just going to cost more.
The picture of the empty seats in Pittsburgh tells observers what is going to happen very soon. The same thing Pittsburgh has done successfully twice, dive to the bottom for a few years then back to the top. They might have waited too long though this time because before they had some pretty good veterans to mentor players. Tampa did this twice as well, Chicago, Colorado, TO once,
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I think its fair to question whether any of those three are going to be NHL centres. Nazar is playing well in the AHL, but he is tiny, Bedard (who is going to be a great plyer) has put up points but he's been absolutely awful defensively and should not be playing C. Moore is not tracking well at all.
The Hawks of yesteryear did what they did because their Norris Trophy caliber defender, Selke caliber Centre and hart/lindsay/ross /smythe caliber winger hit more or less immediately and so did their "close to core" supporting cast.
The current edition has been throwing spaghetti on the wall since 2018 and don't have a ton to show for it. Two top 10 picks in their first wave of "retool picks" busted (Dach, Boqvist). Bedard was massively overhyped as "the savior" and if there are future norris/selke trophy winners in their pool, it sure isn't obvious yet.
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Pens needed to move on from the old core and they didn’t.
This is what happens when you hold on for too long.
This is what happens when you hold on for too long.
Haven't tracked their prospects, but even if Nazar and Moore were going well, they would have 3 sub 6 foot skilled C. Need some girth down the middle at some point, plus some bigger wingers who can play in the top 6 if you go that small.
Bedard and Vlasic are the only 2 roster players I would put money on to be there when they return to the PO.
If losing is already getting to Bedard in year 2, he's in for a rough ride for another 2-3 years or longer, unless Chicago makes a move to sign guys, makes a trade, or a kid or two hits big early in their career.
