My post said I don't think this is a realistic deal. You've disagreed and claimed your opinion is worth much much more, so clearly they're just waiting to announce the deal on Monday.
Nope. Try re reading the initial response.
I pointed out that your take was poorly grounded given you clearly don't have a good understanding of the relative progression status of the two prospects involved.
You've invented all sorts of Boogeymen to argue with that simply aren't there.... And added weak hyperbole again here for, reasons?
You seem really worked up about this. I'm sorry I don't think Bogdan Konyushkov is as good as you think he is. Neither him or Farrell are likely to be anything much in the NHL but Farrell has already played NHL games and has a productive AHL season under his belt as well. Has a NHL contract, his path to the big league is much clearer. I watched him play when he was at Harvard with Coronato, he's a smart skilled player. Size is less of an issue for fwds.
Ah, finally. A relevant response...
Agree to disagree here. I'm more bullish on Farrell than most Habs fans, but it's a pretty big stretch to suggest he's a better bet to become an NHL regular than Kony at this point.
I suppose the fear that Kony is so successful in the KHL that he gets a big enough next contract that he opts not to pursue the NHL might affect a person's valuation of him, but to date there's been no indication that he's a risk of that.
Konyushkov is a smallish dman who doesn't skate particularly well. Small soft and slow defenseman generally don't have a great time in the NHL. Maybe he can overcome those deficiencies, maybe not. Maybe he remains in the KHL. A lot more maybes with him. If he's a better prospect than Farrell it's by a insignificant amount. But yes, mentioning one and not the other in a throwaway forum post in a throwaway forum thread clearly shows an incredible ignorance about prospects.
Not at all a good evaluation of the player. The skating is an area that needs work, but his size is not an issue for the type of dman he is (ironically size and skating are the two significant roadblocks for Farrell), and calling him "soft" again underscores that your assessment of the player is not well grounded.
These aren't even top 10 organizational prospects for the Canadiens. I realize fans see some promising numbers in bad watered down leagues like the KHL and start penciling them into lineups but the reality is neither are all that likely to reach 100 NHL games.
Not all prospect pools are the same.
"Not even top 10.." is another irrelevant comment.
The "numbers" for both Farrell & Konyushkov are hardly impressive. Coupled with their draft status, more of a reason why poorly informed posters make throwaway posts and then get all frustrated when their bad take is pointed out
The "reality" is that about 1/3 of the players picked in the first two rounds of the draft don't reach 100NHL games & same could be said of A much higher ratio of NHL team "top 10 prospects"...
A quantity for quality trade involving picks & prospects is what it is. As I stated in the first reply, I don't doubt that CBJ would/will prefer a quality return over a quantity one... But that's a different argument all together. I'm not sure why that's hard for you to grasp
