Nothing to worry about there is virtually nothing in 2021 draft worth keeping picks for ... it is worst draft ever ... and Kraken likely will take players over picks from what I hear ... but to keep our defense we might have to give up a 1st and a winger like Mik (no big deal) and in turn get Kraken to take Kerfoot
You don't, and Leafs won't, lose Dermy ... it is 5-7 years to develop another defender which will be beyond our window ... right now we got 2 guys who skate great in Rielly and Dermy ... 2 guys who are beast playing defensive defenders in Muzzy and Bogo ... and 2 guys in Brodie and Holl who are make it at work ... with Holl developing at an unbelievable rate beyond any expectation (but that's why you don't unload defense)
Very true. Although with Holl he is late 20's and really could have done this prior.
Dermott was # 5 in the second round of a fantastic draft year. There is less that a 50% chance that a late first round draft pick even plays 200 games. Dermott is a bonafide 3rd pairing Dman with lots of upside. At his age and rfa control, he is most certainly worth it.
But this is on org not Holl ... for 2 years he went backwards under Babs ... and he is now finding a role and getting more comfortable ... also he has been perfectly developed under Muzzy past 2 years ... you can't underestimate playing with a vet like Muzzy can do for a guy ... it will be exact same thing with Bogo developing Dermy ... watch and see ... this 1st time in 30 years since 92 where I see people thinking about D development and competition ... if Rielly was a better defender then he could develop a 3rd guy but bottom line he needs support and Brodie is proving it (in fact he is playing way better than I thought he could ... his stick checking is amazing really really top flight) ... it sucks for Sandin truly it does but this is what happens on Cup contending teams
Yeah, that's why Vegas had such great success. Seattle won't get that luxury this time. It's odd an expansion draft set Florida back so much.
You mentioned 3 bad ones yes but there were also 6 good ones too and 1 so so deal ... 10 deals out of 30 teams ... some GMs were smart and some made bad deals ... but what will be terrible is if we lose a top 4 dman for nothing ... that is TERRIBLE and we can't afford it ... we are NOT deep on defense ... we are better than before but we have a long ways still to go ... playoff hockey is won with defense and tending and Dubie is only really starting to get it now as a rook
Oh I also forgot the worst one:
Just awful. NHL GMs really handed Vegas success.
Oh yeah. He's in his prime, RH shot, big, very good defensively, great cap hit. He must be kept
He's the inverse of Rielly... Defensively responsible, shoots right handed, good slap shot.
at this juncture, I don't think a trade to protect Dermott would cost what those did. If the expansion draft were today and we wanted Seattle to take like an Engvall instead of Dermott, we could probably do something like Lehtonen or Lehtonen+a 3rd to 5th to make that happen -it's likely that teams are viewing Dermott & Lehtonen to be similar value right now, so that's a trade chip for us to decide which we want.
