Prospect Info: Jacob Fowler

[salbutera]

Although pre-draft era, they developed 16, 4, and 25.

Le Gros Bill was technically signed as UFA…

 

[Cole Caulifield]

That's one of the reasons why goalies are rarely drafted in the 1st round these days.

It's because they're the hardest to evaluate since they are the furthest from their potential. You get less bang for your bucks out of drafting a goalie as you spend a lot of time developping them and then they hit UFA. You almost never get good performances from them on their ELC. It's valuable to have guys like Hutson and Slaf still on their ELC putting up performances like this.

 

[Paradoxe]

Can't wait to see him at the camp! We have a gem.

 

[viceroy]

Slow cooking goalies is always a good idea. He'd have to be leagues better than his competition to skip the AHL.

But what if he leads the Rocket in dominant fashion to a Calder? How the heck do you keep him off the Habs then?

The fans of this team do not have the capacity to admit the team is bad they prefer to search for a cancer. Price, Kovalev, soon it will be Slaf ...

Slaf? Yeah from the same losers that are out right now trying to push a Lafreniere for Slafkovsky trade.

Putting alot of money on a goalie is almost always a bad idea. I mean Crawford and Niemi won cups (granted the Hawks were stacked otherwise)

Cups nowadays are often won using a new/young goalie that other teams don't have a book on. High end goalies that are solid year in year out are rare and should be paid accordingly.

 

[ahmedou]