Would you be open to trading unprotected 2025 1st?

[ViD]

Here’s the deal, we’ve got enough prospects as it is and obviously lacking top end experienced players that could lead the young stars on the team.

Given that 2025 draft class so far is not shaping to be as strong as 2023 and 2024, I feel it might be worth considering trading this pick to acquire some top end level talent.

One potential target might be Noah Dobson, an elite RHD to compliment Werenski on the top pair.

What’s your take on moving the pick ? Any particular players you would want to acquire with it ?

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[Viqsi]

Far too soon to know. I went ahead and voted my inclination, but I think the far safer move is to hold on to it and delay any move decisions until the picture is clearer.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

As we sit right now? Keep the pick

Revisit this again in the summer

 

[Cowumbus]

lol no

 

[cbjthrowaway]

i think they should trade their first with top 3 protection (and add to it) if they can net a potential core player. they're primed to make big improvements over the summer with all the cap space, and the youngsters are showing improvement.

unprotected? no. the top of the draft has the next jack hughes in hagens and a tkachuk clone in martone.

my dream scenario is jiricek + our 2025 1st with minimal protections for noah dobson, then winning the lotto to keep the pick and walking away with martone.

 

[CannonFire1]

Way too soon to tell.

 

[ThisIsMyAlibi]

BPA. Not good enough to be passing up futures with that much team control.

 

[alphafox]

No way I trade the pick for anything realistically on offer other than a chance to move up for a better player. Realistically, We have significant holes opening up/on the roster that still need filled. Fantilli has been disappointing and Lindstrom is a lottery ticket at best considering the injury on top of the normal rookie question marks so down the middle is a coin flip for being solved at best. It looks like Jiricek is much less a sure thing than we hoped for and appears to not have a long happy future here based on the constant rumors of discontent. Mateychuk hasn't played an NHL game. So the D is as big of a question mark as ever. Frankly, every one of our marquee prospects since 2021 is at least behind the development power curve and maybe so fraught with issues their ceilings have been permanently lowered. Imo, at this point we are still looking at a roster that has big talent gaps that need to be filled as our development progression seems to have stalled out and we appear to potentially still have a bare cabinet when it comes to top line/top pair players. Hopefully with some development luck and a couple more top 3 picks we can actually put together a winning team in a few years.

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

I say no just because there is a good possibility that last year's pick may never pan out and was a bigger risk than we were led to believe.

 

[CBJx614]

Keep the pick and load up the pool with top end talent unless a game changing player is involved, which is extremely unlikely. The draft is where you can find the top end talent, and it's not always coming from a top 3-5 pick.

 

[ViD]

No way I trade the pick for anything realistically on offer other than a chance to move up for a better player. Realistically, We have significant holes opening up/on the roster that still need filled. Fantilli has been disappointing and Lindstrom is a lottery ticket at best considering the injury on top of the normal rookie question marks so down the middle is a coin flip for being solved at best. It looks like Jiricek is much less a sure thing than we hoped for and appears to not have a long happy future here based on the constant rumors of discontent. Mateychuk hasn't played an NHL game. So the D is as big of a question mark as ever. Frankly, every one of our marquee prospects since 2021 is at least behind the development power curve and maybe so fraught with issues their ceilings have been permanently lowered. Imo, at this point we are still looking at a roster that has big talent gaps that need to be filled as our development progression seems to have stalled out and we appear to potentially still have a bare cabinet when it comes to top line/top pair players. Hopefully with some development luck and a couple more top 3 picks we can actually put together a winning team in a few years.

You’re saying none of our picks are developing perfectly yet we still need to collect more prospects ?