LetsGOJackets!!
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Players that are still underrated in Columbus: Saad, Hartnell, Foligno, Savard.
Some of those awesome young players you were praising were drafted by that bad pervious mgmt you were complaining about.
Howson's first picks are peaking now (Atkinson, Calvert, Savard).
Howson's late year picks are just starting their NHL careers (Anderson, Sedlak, Forsberg, Jenner, Murray)
Excellent point: Howson's picks have certainly come to fruition in this FO - I'm sure you are willing to give JK credit for managing them and making sure that the organization is developing them eh? My major beef goes back to PGMDM - he switched the buildout perspective, like he changed annual Marketing slogans. First he wanted overagers and europeans (Goal out with Tugger & Denis), then he was going to get free agents for the blue line, first he was going to go slow, then he was going to try and win - settling into mediocraty 60 - 75 pts a season.
Missed on the generational players of our lifetime Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, and the core foundational players like Toews, Kane, Stamkos, Tavares, Doughty
Hockey is a 23 man roster - and unlike some other sports each of those 23 are important cogs. We don't have the stars, bue we certainly have pieces that fit together.