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Stay away from those people. This is a Firebirds (formerly whalers) family.

Shane Wrong slips all the way to 4th overall and cries Seattle rejoices that he fell to them Kraken refuse to send him down to the OHL because they dont want him to get ass blasted everynight on a shiddy Kingston team Finally he is traded to Windsor and they send him down hoping he can go on a deep playoff run with them Windsor gets swept by the 8th seed in the first round lol new record Who is the new Zadina? And why is it Shane Wrong?

He has better linemates because he's a one trick pony... unless he's scoring (which he isn't) he's useless... think Pulkinen, Brunner, etc. It's our bad luck our GM just looked at the TSN draft list and didn't understand why Busty was available at 6.

Ras wasn't a smart pick at 9, no doubt... but he's a better player than Zadina. It's not even close. Zadina needs to be babysat on the ice. Ras has the size, strength and increasingly the mentality to be a line 2/3 power forward. Right now given hindsight I'd swallow the Ras pick but not the Zadina pick. Not facts and not correct. Double cluster fack. ^^ THIS ^^

Last season Ras scored 1.33 pts per 60 minutes. Zadina scored 0.95 pts per 60 minutes. Ras did that while being deployed in the D zone disproportinately more often than Zadina. And most often with worse linemates. Ras was easily the better offensive player last year. Im not even trying to build Ras up. Hes been a dissapointment too. Zadina has just been THAT BAD. While also bringing nothing else to the table. Does Zadina kill penalties? Does he take a large amount of defensive zone starts? Does he take draws? No... he takes sheltered offensive minutes with great linemates and does less with it then Ras does from a bottom 6 defensive role.

2 years at league minimum... that's my offer. I'd settle at league minimum plus 150k for 2 years. If he doesn't like the offer GTFO we have players just as good wanting your roster spot.

Not true at all. I was suggesting that if your most compelling argument in favor of Zadina is "he's cheap" then there are other cheap options on entry level contracts. If you're arguing that he actually played well and therefore deserves opportunity I'd counter with the fact that based on their performances last year ALL of Raymond, Bertuzzi, Vrana, Perron, Kubalik, Fabbri, Rasmussen, and Sundqvist are more deserving of ice time than Zadina. So I guess I'll agree that right now you can pencil him onto your 4th line. Except that he's bad defensively and on special teams so he's not really a fit there (and everyone would complain that it's setting him up for failure). So where do you put the "scorer who doesn't score"? My guess is you want him playing higher in the lineup and on special teams yeah? Again, what exactly did he ever do to earn those premium minutes? This Zadina thing reminds me so much of Teemu Pulkkinen. Prolific junior scorer who couldn't score in the NHL because he sucked, but everyone was POSITIVE that is was the coach/icetime/usage/linemates etc. So we hung onto him forever, until the whole world could see he sucked, and never got a single thing for all that "asset management".