His goal from yesterday
Maybe Reinhart-like. Get this guy in front of the net on the power play. Skating not as big a deal then.
It’s nice to have a prospect where you draft him and to a man everywhere immediately yells he should have gone higher…and then he proves that right. A lot of times you never really hear about guys on the steal list again in a meaningful way. This one turned out to be extremely true.
There’s gonna be lots of that from the last draft for every team.
That's a MF haul for a 4th rounder. Sabres did hopefully well here - his stock has risen a lot.
Why did the Cataractes trade him away though?
Why did the Cataractes trade him away though?
The other thing is that they went all in for this year given that the Q had two spots in the Mem Cup with the Sea Dogs hosting.A super quick look at the Cataractes lineup from this year and the fact that Nadeau has signed with the Sabres tells me that:
1. This looks to be Nadeau's last year in the Q
2. Xavier Bourgault, the teams leading goal scorer an 1st round pick of the Edmonton Oilers, is eligible to move to the AHL this year, and I would guess he will. Unless of course he makes the Oilers.
3. The team's third leading scorer and a first round selection of the Dallas Stars - Mavrick Bourque - appears headed down the same path as Bourgault.
I only had about 5 minutes to reasearch that, but it would seem that Shawinigan saw the opportunity to retool what would have been a weakened lineup using the haul of picks and the player they just got
What Dex said.
SHA probably projects to be pretty bad next year because CHL teams have very short windows (given the age of players) and they tend to load up a ton, and then suck really badly, and rinse & repeat that cycle again and again. And then they make trades like this to recoup assets they spent loading up.
So I don't follow the 'Q' closely in general, but I'm sure that GAT intends to be a Mem Cup contender next year and that's why they made this trade and they may not be done making such moves. So it's good for us and for Nadeau if he gets a shot to be a leader on another deep run next year.
I love that Nadeau was outproducing Mavrick Bourque and Xavier Bourgault both first rounders. Just shows that the 2020 draft was full of unicorn sleepers.