IWantSakicAsMyGM
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“I suspect will be necessary”; they’re already showing things. Things that we can start drawing conclusions from. They still have time to change those conclusions before a trade would happen, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore what we’re seeing.
Like Jost; he has already shown that his skating is insufficient to make an impact at Center in the NHL. He looks really appealing as a winger, but we can be pretty confident in predicting that he won’t solve our C issue. This isn’t an arbitrary standard, it’s the reality of what his time at C showed.
I'm not suggesting we should ignore what we're seeing, I'm saying we should try to confirm if what we think we're seeing is actually true before we start assuming our conclusions are correct. And, I think that's going to take more than just the remainder of this season to do it properly.
And, Jost is still only 20 years old, and hasn't even played 100 NHL games yet. He is in no way a finished product, so claiming that we can be "pretty confident" about what he's going to do in the future based on what he's showing today just isn't realistic. The only thing his time at C showed is that he's not good enough right now, it doesn't show anything definitive about what Jost will be with another 18 months of development under his belt.