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Reinbacher probably won't be available at 9, so you probably don't have to worry about that. However...if he is there? Well, honestly, there's a case to be made for taking him. Yeah, it'd be silly adding ANOTHER defenseman...but it actually wouldn't be silly at all, because having all three of Seider, Edvinsson, and Reinbacher in our top 4 would be pants-s***tingly amazing (assuming Reinbacher's legit). But I agree with you that goal-scoring's the most pressing organizational need right now. And I agree that it's probably worth going HAM on that in this draft. If we could come away from this draft with Ryan Leonard and Colby Barlow (we'd probably have to trade up from 18/17), that'd be huuuge.

strange. its almost like someone else has been saying something similar.

If we get Fantinelli, we're in the playoffs in 2024 or 2025. So, no, I don't think it's Bedard-or-death. And I don't think it's Fantinelli-or-death either, for that matter. Ideally, yeah, Larkin and Raymond are on our second line and we have absolute world-destroyers on our top line. But I don't think the standard rules of What a Team Needs If It Wants to Win are as ironclad today as they once were. Bottom line: I think we just need to keep adding good young players and eventually it'll come together. If Kasper and Edvinsson are the players we're hoping they are, we're in good shape.

Raymond will be beastier.

Defense: Seider/Walman Matt Dumba or Damon Severson/Edvinsson Chiarot/Maatta Lindstrom Forwards: Kubalik-Larkin-Raymond Berggren-Copp-Perron Fabbri-Barbashev-Soderblom Rasmussen-Veleno-Zadina Suter