Guentzel - Crosby - HolmqvistThe lil'l smurfs will rule everything and make a big splash when the playoffs time will arrive. They will kick ass to the big traditional teams built to win the playoffs, oh yeah baby! First they have to make the playoffs, lol.
Oh so we just need to find 2 of the 3 best players of the current generation.
Always excuses.
Did you see Demidov protect the puck in the corners....his ́puck protection technique is very good....something that Andrei Kostitsyn for example was not and he was so big and strong.
Sydney Crosby. We have such a generational talent in our roster right now? Syd is 5'11" btw.
I agree but its not because we don't have Crosby that we have to draft Mcqueen instead of Reschny for example. They are 6 inches difference yes....but who is gonna be the best player down the road.
It’s not an excuse. They literally won because they had those two. We have no one near that quality.
Yeah but Crosby was not tall enough on his draft year..remember that.
Maybe yes but that's all speculations now. Reschny could have been gone at 15, who knows. A smaller center could work fine if he's surrounded with big and skilled wingers. Maybe the next 2e or 1rst center will be McTavish and it will cost Slaf or Caufield. I don't think our usual trading players (Mailloux, Beck, Kapanen, Dach, etc) are very attractive in the real world, some bigger names considered untouchable have to go. Who is really untouchable are Suzuki, Hutson, Ghule, Demidov, Reinbacher and Fowler. But I might be wrong. Maybe we are at a turning point and an huge trade is coming to shake the tree. Or maybe not, Habs are tyed without real solution, no big change and Hughes sign short term Armia and Dvorak. Expect big or expect nothing.
You bring a point but usually teams with tall and players who plays big tends to win SC finals. Blues didn't had top talent like Crosby/Malkin but they won in 2019. LAK won with average tall, gritty enough and enough overall talent 2 times. Anaheim destroyed everything when they won with Getzlaf and Perry. Boston Bruins were a tough team with size in 2011. Tampa had some muscle with Hedman and few others and their smallish players were top notch talent like Kucherov and Point. We don'ty see that amount of skills and talent in every small player, that's exceptional and not really an argument in favour of smaller players.
That would be the smallest and softest top 6 line up in the NHL...
Best way for getting destroyed in playoffs or regular games. Reminds me Gomez-Gionta-Cammaleri short period.
Only this year's 'Sennecke,' is truly worthy of the hype. Hughes has the assets to make the move to be in a position to take Martin if he falls a bit. One player who really impresses me, and is worthy of trading back into the bottom of the first round is Cullen Potter who looks like a clone of Logan Cooley. As I said earlier, the lack of a potential superstar player has given this draft class a bad reputation. I think there is considerable value in the top 20 and thus I would be very hesitant in trading away the 16 and/or 17th OA picks. With a little luck we could walk away with two future core players.
I'd rather try to land another 1st round pick in the 20s by trading one or both of our second rounders than trading up and down from our 16th and 17th OA picks (14th & 20th).
You have to have some size and grit in the top-6,but it's not true that it is reserved for some players and unnecessary for others. If so, it would have been okay for Floateretty to keep away from the dirty work like he would have preferred to do.
