Right because Columbus couldn't use a PPG forward.This is excuse-making for bad drafting at the highest level.
Right because Columbus couldn't use a PPG forward.
What makes you say that? I ask because I'm not the biggest follower of Junior league hockey. I've only seen highlights of Lindstrom.
Anything positive that could possibly happen, won't and can not occur.
This appeal to authority fallacy means nothing. Multimillion dollar organizations make wrong decisions every single day, even when they are equipped with lots of information. Hockey GMs know more about hockey and prospects than we do. Yet a hockey GM thought it was a good idea to trade a 1st rd pick for Griffin Reinhart instead of selecting Matt Barzal. A multimillion dollar organization with pro scouting, coaches and personnel watching games and practices decided that Martin St Louis wasn't an NHL player and waived him. Same with Carter Verhaeghe. A team traded Dominik Hasek for Stephane Beauregard and future considerations.
First off, Columbus had two different GM's between 2023 and 2024. So it's entirely possible that their draft philosophy changed between those two years.
I’m just talking about in hindsight. At the time, you are correct. However, we have additional data now and I think for fans to take one stance for the 2023 draft and another for the 2024 draft is a little inconsistent, unless the logic is a “I messed up with my 2023 calculations, so I’ll take a different strategy for 2024” type of thing.
Who said they wanted an immediate contributor? It wasn't Jarmo... I can't remember a draft in recent CBJ history where they've ever said anything close to that.
Michkov fell because he wanted to, he wanted to go to Philly, CBJ didn't even interview him, likely because they as much.
Reread.. did I say 100% or did I say due diligence? Everything else you said is irrelevant. Do you know what the team thought would happen? Absolutely not.. could they have hoped for rest with a possibility of surgery if it didn't work out? Why not? We have no information on what they thought and what their long-term plan to handle it was. You think that they didn't think that surgery could have possibly been on the table, come on.. any good business decisions plans for both the best and worst possible outcome, and would have gone down all of those paths in making their choice.
I think it was widely discussed and viewed as they didn't consider Michkov because the management was under immediate pressure to win right away (and they ended up losing their jobs not long after). They weren't able to wait for a player that it was viewed as might not be able to join the team for 2-3 years, at the earliest.
Lindstrom had very impressive numbers when his TOI was considered. His back was the only reason he was available at #4. Chicago would have run up to the podium to grab him if he was healthy.
Those first six words discredit anything said after.
I was posting in this forum at the time and I remember very succinctly that after the draft lottery was made that Michkov was not even really discussed for Columbus as an option. He was thought to be much more of an option for Montreal, even a team like Anaheim. Washington was talked about a lot. I think even Utah (Arizona) and San Jose were talked about more often than Columbus. It was viewed pretty definitive that Columbus was not interested in Michkov. So maybe they knew right after the draft lottery that he would refuse to play for them and for that reason they had no interest, but it seems more to me that Columbus didn't consider the player, whether he would've wanted to go there or not. I am not going to take the time to look for a source, but as someone who consumes draft coverage, I remember this as a main talking point at the time.
