dj Mahoney
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Blackhawks : Levshunov Vlasic Korchinski Del Mastro Rinzel Allan Kaiser Phillips , A mix of everything , size , skill , speed , offence , defence
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Good chance that that Seamus Casey becomes a really good offensive defenseman for the Devils as well.No debate.
New Jersey : Luke Hughes, Simon Nemec, Anton Silayev.
Collecting 10 average defenders is not a strength.
Otherwise Buffalo but I consider that Dahlin is too old (already 24).
Let's see how he will translate his profile into the NHL. Knowing that Hughes and Nemec are already offensive players. I'm skeptical.Good chance that that Seamus Casey becomes a really good offensive defenseman for the Devils as well.
Anaheim ALWAYS comes to mind for having their D-core set for years, yet somehow it seems like it never really works out as planned.......and once again their future looks insane for defense.... but who knows if itll be the case
NJ should be good too but i truly think the best of the bunch may be Montreal. I just love the future group of Reinbacher, Mailloux, Hutson, Guhle, Xhekaj etc etc
You’re right, we’ve never had a good defenseman we’ve drafted ever.Anaheim's defenders don't get good until they trade them away for nothing
How is Buffalo on this list?
Even then Buffalo's Dcore is very unbalanced reminds me of last year of when Sens had a supposed deep blueline but had too much unbalance. Byram, Dahlin, and Power are too similar of players (Especially Byram and Power being very raw but not very intelligent players). Samuelsson is nice, but he's one player and he gets injured often.I think there’s wide variance on people’s impression of what ‘future’ entails. Buffalo has a great top 4 of 24-and-indeed that will likely still be there and not past-prime in 3 years … by that definition they’ll have a strong short term future d corps.
But people whose view of future is a little more long term (focusing mainly on players under 22 and players not even in the league yet) would disregard most of Buffalo’s existing young but established core and be noticing the absence of pending breakthrough players.