Player Discussion Drake Batherson (RW) - Part II

[Xspyrit]

Slots pretty well. Gives the team the potential for a dominant first line when all three players are going.

Second and third lines still look solid and could provide scoring. Maybe slightly top heavy, but I think there is enough to support that.

Since we paid to dump Joseph, wish we could have gone with Teravainen and Noesen for example

Tkachuk - Stutzle - Batherson
Teravainen - Norris - Giroux
Greig - Pinto - Noesen

Damn, that would have been a very efficient Top-9. If we can manage to have better results the next 2 seasons, we might be able to attract better players down the road

 

[aragorn]

This is exactly it.

I think he will have a Zbad style boom and reach that next level. People will raise an eyebrow, but it wasn't until Zibanejad was roughly Batherson's age that he got to that next level and went from top 6 producer who sometimes turns it on into being a top 20 producer in the league who peaked near the top 5 for some seasons.

Do you feel the same way about Stutzle?

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

Wish we kept Joseph, signed Amadio and Gregor, and didn't sign Perron. Would have saved the extra 1M + kept our pick, and given us another speedster.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Wish we kept Joseph, signed Amadio and Gregor, and didn't sign Perron. Would have saved the extra 1M + kept our pick, and given us another speedster.

or never traded for him in the 1st place