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If Yzerman would've won, he would've traded the pick to Vancouver for Pettersson, Hughes and 3 first round picks.

Phase 1: Draft Phase 2: Creative building (you are here) Phase 3: Supplimentary building Phase 4: Cup runs Well we didnt win (again) the lottery. And I think thats the last time you will see us in any real position to win the lottery again for a while. It is what it is. The drafting phase of the yzerplan, IMO, is therefore ending at this draft. After this we will back to the 12-20 range. Even with no lottery wins we did pretty good. 2 blue chip Dmen. 2 blue chip forwards. 1 blue chip goalie. Another 1 or 2 blue chips this year. And we have an imploding bostons 1st rounder next year. Plus a myriad of other B grade players. But this should now start the shift towards what I call "the creative building stage". We may still sell at the TDL, but this is no longer a lottery team at this point. We have 2 more major foundational pieces joining the roster in Ed and Kasper this season. And impending major extensions to Ras, Ray, and Seider looming. SY will no longer be uber cap rich very soon and we wont be able to go on massive spending sprees like last year. So I think we are entering the creative building stage. Trades, offersheets, you name it. Time to trade a Drouin for a Sergachev. What can we pick off Bostons corpse? Torontos? Winnipegs? Islanders? Can we trade Zadina for a bottom 6er we actually like? Can we package some prospects for a top player in their early 20s? Once we can age up and wheel or deal our way out of mediocrity, then we enter the next phase of the yzerplan.

Cuz we got Zadina filling nets...

The Boston first-rounder is probably the only shot Yzerman has at a lottery pick tbh. With the offseason the Bruins have coming up, it's very plausible that they could finish bottom 10 next season, bumping the pick to 2025. If that happens, they may be ripe for a rebuild going into the 24/25 season. They will likely lose their two top centers, they can't afford Bert, and when factoring in cap penalties they have like 6 million to fill out half a roster. Hard times ahead. Hang on to that pick.

I think my current 1-2-3 is Dvorsky, Moore, Reinbacher. I like that we're all kinda on roughly the same page.

Is this draft really that deep for the top 43? Where is the drop off point for packaging picks to have three 1st rounders or two picks better than 9 + 17? I'd be looking for teams with no 2nd rounders to try and trade up, Philly (7) , St. Louis (10), and Vancouver (11). Am I missing anyone?

Howard? grits teeth

I'm on the Dvorsky train assuming Moore/Smith and all that are taken