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Injury-prone; missed at least 30 games in each of the past three seasons. And he's just not an Yzerman-type defenseman (e.g. Trouba).
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We don't - and almost certainly won't - have any generational talent. I've long since accepted that. It is what it is. My thing is this: If we're gonna do the win-by-committee approach...and we're eyeing the playoffs...and we don't have a particularly deep team (the kind of team that can do the win-by-committee thing)...then we need to load up on really good talent from outside the system. That'll make us competitive now, and foster a winning culture for the young guns, and keep pressure off said young guns. The key is...you have to actually do it. You have to lean into it. If you half-ass a win-by-committee approach, the team will suck and everyone's time and money is wasted. You always need to be on the ball. There's no "Well, maybe we take a step back this year, but it'd be worth it in the long run, because we have some good-not-great prospects coming in four years." That's dumb. I get frustrated when I feel like Yzerman's taking his foot off the gas in that regard. I know that sounds like I'm just an instant gratification junkie (guilty as charged, I suppose), but it really is more than that. I really don't think treading water is an option, if win-by-committee is the model. If we had two Raymonds and two Seiders and a 2C who's better than Compher, that'd be one thing. But, well, we don't. Tarasenko's a good add. If we add a really good defenseman, I'm happy. Fingers crossed.
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The rebuild is in a bad, bad place right now.
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Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:
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Yes, Elliotte Friedman just confirmed. Wow!
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Well, yeah. I heard MBN banged Corey Perry's mom. All he does is win. It's incredible.
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The HYPE! rises.
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https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/619176/michael-brandsegg-nygard
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I don't wanna HYPE! this kid up TOO much and I know I'm really banging this drum here...but it's wild how much hate I'm seeing for this pick. And 99% of it's because we didn't take Eiserman. Maybe Eiserman's the better prospect. Maybe he's gonna be the better player. I don't know. No one does. What I do know is there's risk with players like Eiserman. He was available at 15 because lots of other people passed on him. And they passed on him because of the risk. I actually don't feel like finding pure scorers is a huge concern for us. Larkin scores. Raymond just put up 72 points. There's always trades and free agents. We pulled Kane out of our ass and he scored at a point-per-game clip. I think players like the player MBN has the potential to be are arguably harder to find and arguably more valuable than the player Eiserman could be. Like I said a few posts back, it's rare to find a two-way power forward with a lethal shot. How many of those can you even name off the top of your head? So in that sense, I kinda feel like MBN is a bigger "swing for the fences" pick than Eiserman would've been. I'm not one of those "TRUST THE YZERPLAN" bros. They annoy me. I just think most of the people complaining about this pick haven't actually researched the player. Because, again, he's pretty much the player they want.
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Compher but with Sprong's shot.
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Imagine being upset with this pick lol https://dobberprospects.com/player/michael-brandsegg-nygard/
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Having Kane AND Stamkos would be pure unadulterated chaos on so many levels. The final scores of all our games would be, like, 10-9. It'd be antithetical to everything Yzerman and Lalonde have preached (re: needing to improve defensively), but it'd be so much fun lol
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It's rare that a hard-nosed, 200-pound, 200-foot player can shoot the puck like this kid can. It's exciting because a hard-nosed, 200-pound, 200-foot player should have no problem putting himself in a position to score. Usually it's "He can shoot, but he's soft, so he isn't getting to the prime scoring areas" or "He lives in the prime scoring areas, but he's a grinder, so he can't convert."