Prospect Info: Sharks Prospect Info & Discussion Megathread XXI: "New, improved, and wayyyy too much info" Edition

[Jargon]

All Lund and/or Havelid need to do is be a useful piece in a trade or a depth player of some sort and if Bystedt is a regular 3C, it's an acceptable result for the trade. But it's understandable to think maybe we'd have more of an impact player for our rebuild if we used that 11th overall pick on someone like McGroarty. The thought process then for Grier still made plenty of sense. Trying to get more useful prospects for a rebuild on pretty much day one makes sense but it's also difficult to expect anything when he just got there too.

Yeah the move made sense particularly when you look at our pipeline back then. It was so f***ing awful he needed to do what he could to try and grab as many guys as possible.

 

[Gecklund]

The human element. They are reactionary and risk adverse, many GMs and scouts are underqualified. Some of them do learn, most don't. They also want to find the miracle player like a Stone or Benn.

So are you more qualified than these GMs and scouts?

All Lund and/or Havelid need to do is be a useful piece in a trade or a depth player of some sort and if Bystedt is a regular 3C, it's an acceptable result for the trade. But it's understandable to think maybe we'd have more of an impact player for our rebuild if we used that 11th overall pick on someone like McGroarty. The thought process then for Grier still made plenty of sense. Trying to get more useful prospects for a rebuild on pretty much day one makes sense but it's also difficult to expect anything when he just got there too.

Yeah definitely. Again the value of the trade I absolutely loved. I’m probably a bit too much of a prospect nerd but I definitely would have gone a different direction with the picks. Lund I had ranked towards the end of the second. I just don’t love his ceiling. Definitely something that if the sharks don’t like their options at an early pick (like 11) again I’d be fine with doing again though.

I forgot to quote it and am on dreaded HF mobile but I do agree with the other post that I have more trust in the current brains in charge but at the same time am hesitant. DWjrs drafts looked great a year or two out too. Currently the picks tend to be higher. Kind of one of those wait and see though.

 

[timorous me]

DWjrs drafts looked great a year or two out too. Currently the picks tend to be higher. Kind of one of those wait and see though.

Did they actually look great a couple years out, or was that mostly just to our verrrrrry desperate eyes?

 

[Gecklund]

Did they actually look great a couple years out, or was that mostly just to our verrrrrry desperate eyes?

I mean Bordeleau was a PPG in the NCAA, Robins PPGish in the WHL, Coe PPG in the OHL, Gushchin also a PPGish in the USHL I think it was, Oberg looked great in the SHL, Raska just being his pesky self so yes it did look great a couple years out.

 

[OrrNumber4]

I mean Bordeleau was a PPG in the NCAA, Robins PPGish in the WHL, Coe PPG in the OHL, Gushchin also a PPGish in the USHL I think it was, Oberg looked great in the SHL, Raska just being his pesky self so yes it did look great a couple years out.

Goes to show how things can change. Even at the NHL level.

Think about the Kevin Labanc example; in 2019 if you had said that in two years Jacob Middleton would be the more valuable player, you'd have been institutionalized.