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Hage was never coming so you'd have to sub in a player we could have picked and reported at that spot; Longacre looks like a borderline replacement level player and plain bad pick.Maybe not, but maybe so. Hage is hitting it out of the park at Michigan. Second on the team in scoring as an 18 year old. And Rehkopf's 48G in 57 games, and 7G in 6 playoff games? Even though Longacre may have stalled a bit in development (not NHL drafted and still at USHL), I’d like our chances just the same.
Imagine a top six of:
Rehkopf Hage Pridham
Swick Humphreys Miseljevic
That top line is the answer for Windsor’s top line.
No room for Ellinas.
But not having a second import of quality hurts us this year too.
Had we had that import, that would be a deep team when you fill out the third line with he, Ellinas and Lam.
My only real complaint with this season (I see it as playing with house money and good experience for the kids who will need to be great to have a 2 year window) is the Import situation. I feel like maybe we've been relying too heavily on just getting guys based on where they were drafted in the NHL, and not based on scouting them and seeing how individual guys would fit with our team.