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Bernier's save percentage this season: .914%. Greiss's save percentage this season: .912%. Good goalies will always be available for cheap. Maybe Yzerman trades up a few spots for Cossa. But I really can't see him taking a goalie with our first pick, even if he trades down a few spots. We've been limping along with an inadequate core of skaters and stopgap veteran mercenaries. Yzerman himself has said it's time for the team to start getting younger and taking real steps forward. He's also said the ETA for this rebuild is 3-5 years from now. If we assume 1) we're not going to get lucky in any lotto draws and 2) none of our non-marquee prospects will become true cornerstone guys, then our hopes and dreams are pretty much pinned on Seider, Raymond, 6OA in this draft, a top 10 pick in next year's draft, and maybe a top 10 pick in the 2023 draft (depending on how competitive we are at that point). Two or three picks. The fate of our rebuild largely hinges on two or three picks. We need to make those picks count. We need to come away with a very good NHL top-six centerman and a very good NHL top-four defenseman. Three years from now, we need to be able to say, "We have a core of skaters and this core is going to make us a perennial Cup contender."

Reinhardt is another true 2C, low end 1C in a pinch BUT if we have both Larkin and Reinhardt we have quantity not quality as it relates to the top 6 centers on this team... where at the moment we have neither quantity or quality. Rolling Reinhardt, Larkin, Rasmussen and Veleno as your centers is a strong group overall, despite no superstar among the bunch.

Glendening is an UFA. He can't be protected unless he is re-signed before the expansion draft.

As far as I'm concerned Svech/Cholo can be left unprotected.