our best prospect will be knies, shame we got rid of multiple first round picks to dump bad contracts, it’s really starting to show.
JRocleafs
I don’t know how you have Robertson ranked this high. Like the article said he’s played a total of 82 games over the last 3 seasons combined, and he’s been ineffective in all of them.
Truthfully I don’t know exactly how you assess him, he’s just been injured way too much, but there’s no way I’d put him at 3. Regardless your really starting to see how Dubas’ willingness to trade our top draft picks is effecting us.
Sirrebral99
Looking at where our prospect depth is now and how the team has done in this era, I think it is safe to say the rebuild was rushed by Dubas and our contention window is now shorter/more difficult than it should have been. Making the playoffs in Auston, Mitch and Willy’s first season was probably a disservice, because management took that as a “we’re ready to win, and win now” sign when we should have held steady and built for longer.
2017-2020 the team was not ready to go all in. Too young and raw to do real damage but exciting. We should have been playing our young guys to develop, add some veterans in free agency to support but still keep our 1st round pick and draft high end talent. By 2021 & 2022 our real “contender” seasons started IMO, as our big guns hit their 24-25 year old mark and entered their prime. Why did we waste SO many assets chasing a Cup we were ill prepared for on the backs of 19, 20 and 21 year olds? The Pens did it in 2009 with Sid and Geno, but those are HOF level guys who stepped into a veteran heavy team already. We were not in that position.
Imagine the difference if we had a crop of 3-4 high end rookies on ELCs, on top of Knies, who we could sprinkle in to be effective, cost controlled depth without dumping assets every trade deadline. Dubas really blew it out the gate with Tavares signing, strapping the cap and then proceeded to stop-gap fix the team every year by overpaying for rentals, and really rushed the prospect stockpiling/depth building piece of our team.
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Yikes. Big reality check for the U25 depth.
our best prospect will be knies, shame we got rid of multiple first round picks to dump bad contracts, it’s really starting to show.
I don’t know how you have Robertson ranked this high. Like the article said he’s played a total of 82 games over the last 3 seasons combined, and he’s been ineffective in all of them.
Truthfully I don’t know exactly how you assess him, he’s just been injured way too much, but there’s no way I’d put him at 3. Regardless your really starting to see how Dubas’ willingness to trade our top draft picks is effecting us.
Looking at where our prospect depth is now and how the team has done in this era, I think it is safe to say the rebuild was rushed by Dubas and our contention window is now shorter/more difficult than it should have been. Making the playoffs in Auston, Mitch and Willy’s first season was probably a disservice, because management took that as a “we’re ready to win, and win now” sign when we should have held steady and built for longer.
2017-2020 the team was not ready to go all in. Too young and raw to do real damage but exciting. We should have been playing our young guys to develop, add some veterans in free agency to support but still keep our 1st round pick and draft high end talent. By 2021 & 2022 our real “contender” seasons started IMO, as our big guns hit their 24-25 year old mark and entered their prime. Why did we waste SO many assets chasing a Cup we were ill prepared for on the backs of 19, 20 and 21 year olds? The Pens did it in 2009 with Sid and Geno, but those are HOF level guys who stepped into a veteran heavy team already. We were not in that position.
Imagine the difference if we had a crop of 3-4 high end rookies on ELCs, on top of Knies, who we could sprinkle in to be effective, cost controlled depth without dumping assets every trade deadline. Dubas really blew it out the gate with Tavares signing, strapping the cap and then proceeded to stop-gap fix the team every year by overpaying for rentals, and really rushed the prospect stockpiling/depth building piece of our team.