Munzenberger is a legitimate prospect with the way he's been playing this season. Bourgault was turned into Jarventie and Podkolzin, too. Also, Rodrigue, who would've been splitting development time with Wallstedt is having himself a pretty decent upward trajectory himself and probably isn't far from breaking into NHL minutes.
I don't get the fascination with Wallstedt. To be honest, anyone still complaining that we didn't draft him shouldn't be taken seriously. You bring up a lot of good points.
1. Rodrigues has been better with a 8-5-2 record, 2.53 GAA and a 0.923 sv%. Wallstedt this year has a 0-2 record with 4.09 GAA and a 0.843 sv% in the NHL and a 5-6-1 record with a 3.77 GAA and a 0.874 sv%.
2. Wallstedt is now 4 years into his contract. This is the last year of his ELC and then his contract is increasing to 2.2M next year. The wild might have to move off him from him at that cost.
3. We still might have something in Jarventie. Might be a long shot but he's had good numbers when healthy.
4. Podkolzin (pick we acquired from the deal with Ottawa) has been an absolute stud for us.
5. We traded back and have Munzenberger in the system who is looking more like a legit prospect.
6. This wasn't a top 10 pick. Teams are lucky when someone outside the top 20 even becomes a player. I don't get why all the hate for Bourgault who was the BPA to many rankings at the time.
