You’re again getting rightly crushed for this but I’ll add on.
You know what else doesn’t happen?:
Teams don’t trade recent top 6 picks, which would probably be top 3 picks in a redraft, PLUS a second rounder, for an aging veteran. Seriously, it’s a miracle that we acquired Zibanejad when we did. A miracle. He’s a monster.
Teams don’t trade a soon to be Norris Trophy winner for two second round picks.
The BEST winger in the league becomes a free agent and takes less money to play on your team.
Your fourth round draft pick goalie wins the Vezina at 25 years old.
You are anchored to draft position so deeply that you are unable to see how absurdly fortunate this organization has been with its acquisitions over the past few years. You don’t seem to understand how good this team is. If everything breaks perfectly for Laf and Kakko, the team at that time is likely not as good as this one given that all of these other elite pieces will have aged out or priced themselves out.
Prime, top of the most optimistic development curve Laf and Kakko are going to be really good players but still probably not as good as Zib and Panarin are right now. Their draft position is meaningless at this point.
I'm not the smartest guy in the world and I'll admit to not being nearly as good at player evaluation as most people here. However, the mind boggling lack of logic in his posts is so blatant that I almost can't believe it's real.