It's always funny for me when I see some of the 'independent thinkers' on this board freaking out about something that seems to either be apropos of nothing, or else something already settled.
Like the Hronek thing.
Then someone mentions that our useless media has been clickbaiting with that today and I nod and remember that for all of the rightful disdain for our media, there are some on these boards who follow it like lemmings and then convince themselves it's their own idea.
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There's clearly a zeitgeist shift in the NHL and hfboards isn't catching up.
Draft picks were so incredibly useful in the past because the cap was flat and ELCs were worth far more than their weight in gold.
Now the cap has skyrocketed and there's a talent shortage in the NHL.
It's not surprising to us oldtimers to see that real talent is valued far higher than mid/late first lottery tickets. It has been like that in the before times as well.
Like the Nemec deal. I'm not sure of fit with Parekh there, but the odds are really high that none of those picks ever become anything comparable to Nemec and now that salary cap isn't the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd consideration these trades become more commonplace.
So which is it? Is every GM dumber than your average hfboards poster?
Or is it possible that the league shifts in ways some of us are slower to catch up on.
Even the Byram thing. I think #4 was too high a price, but learning that like 3 different teams with lottery picks were competing for him suggests that high pedigree talent is at a premium and maybe there's more going on than 'hurr durr I'm smarter than every GM'.
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It's also interesting to see impulsive posters shown again that patience is a virtue.
There have been many posters absolutely screeching for us to dump Pettersson for nothing and retain if we have to. "Just get rid of him!"
Now, I'm one of the few who still wants to keep him. But even if you want to trade him, I'm gathering people can start to read the tea leaves and see that in a world where Tuch gets 10.5 and Byram is rumored at 12, Pettersson becomes a decent contract even if he only rebounds a little bit with home run potential.
Patience would lead his value to skyrocket versus trading him when some wanted to.
It's very much like the freaking out that was going on when Hronek was signed and I said, 'look at the cap going up, this will be an incredible bargain soon' but that did nothing to stop the freaking out.
Hfboards is far better than reddit for a hockey nerd but some of this 'time is a flat circle' stuff on freaking out for its own sake is so exhausting.
