River Meadow
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if it's easier for you, just imagine that we had traded michkov for reinbacaher at the draft night
Again, I personally don't care too much to ruminate on the idea of 'what if we drafted XYZ instead'.
I think they saw a 'big' young Dman who at the time was putting up impressive numbers (considering his age) in a good league, playing against men.
That's a decent bet to make.
For sure not all of the scouts were unanimously on board with Bustbacher at #5. Some would have preferred to take another player at #5.
I would have liked to have seen more from Bustbacher at this point, a player drafted in 2023 at #5 OA. Many others have commented, a lot of our other players/prospects are looking better as of right now, which isn't a great feeling.
It would have been nice for the guy we drafted at #5 to flex on our other players with his superior skating/intelligent/speed/size/whatever, but he looks relatively pedestrian.
Let's see, and to be clear I want him to do well (obviously).