What's wrong is that you're lumping Grigorenko in with the Big 5 that are a clear cut above him, both from a talent standpoint, and a roster-building standpoint.
To say that the difference in value between Grigorenko and excellent Power Forward prospects like Fasching and Baptiste is too great a difference for you to land Jack ****ing Eichel... is pure, unbridled Mikhail fan-boy homerism. This is the classic HFBoards over-valuation of your own teams prospects.
And you completely missed the point I made about my hesitancy to even do the 3 1st's and Grigs for Eichel deal. I mentioned I'd have to think long and hard about it, yet you kept bringing it up and said 'just keep building' about 4 times. (btw, is adding Eichel to the aforementioned core-5 not building in your eyes?)
I've now seen you make this Johansen comparison multiple times in different threads, which is silly. They're completely different players, especially when considering their play away from the puck.
Now let's try the Spezza comparison, in his 3rd post draft year: 111GP, 29g 76p
Grigs stats in the same timeframe: 47 games, 3g 6a 9p. And if Grigs stayed up for the rest of the year, do you think he'd even come close to the points/game pace and development that Spezza showed?
Getzlaf was also ahead at the same time, then won a Cup the following year, while being a solid contributor during that run.
Barkov is universally accepted to be a far superior prospect than Grigs.
Grigs has improved, but he has a longgg way to go to even be in the conversation. As much potential as he has, I see an unfortunate amount of Artem, Marek and Jiri in his game.
