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Well, Stevie Y has been Gming for the redwings longer than KA has been around.

So is 90% of the league, Toy Story came out almost 30 years ago

Rosen was a reach, but Östlund was within his expected draft range IMO. Rosen was expected to go between 16-31, and we took him with the 13th pick (14OA). Östlund had a bit more variance with his value, but most had him in the 13-21 range, with some outliers having him later.

I believe it was the long outlet passes out of the zone specifically.

To be fair, it probably still works well for Cozens considering shots have to be on net to be counted for the xGF.

I would think that Tuch being out is more because he is a known commodity for the Sabres. He is the oldest returning forward, and one of the more consistent players that the Sabres have. He has generally started his seasons strong (when healthy), and is not very likely to have significantly improved or declined compared to the last couple seasons. When it comes to figuring out the roster and where to slot players and how they play with the team, he’s less of a question mark than pretty much anybody else, so it makes sense that he gets a break.

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I’m a little surprised Novikov is getting the PP2 nod over Ryan Johnson. Maybe they are trying to see Johnson in a role he’s more likely to play in the NHL.

Stevie Y has been the gm for Detroit longer than KA has been.

Benson did last season, but that was with a roster lacking depth. This season, Helenius would have to beat out a legit NHL 3C to make the roster (doubt they’d keep him in a 4th line role). It’s possible he’d shift to wing and then he’d only have to be better than one of Zucker, Greenway, or Benson, but that’s a taller order than Benson beating out the other prospects, Oloffson and Jost.

Pretty sure the season would get cancelled at that point.

At the time of his season, he was only really proven as a good tandem goalie. His career high in games was 40, and his second highest game total was 31. He hadn’t proved that he could perform well while undertaking a starter’s workload yet.

I think he was talking about the old guys more than McDavid/Draisaitl.

Don’t include me in that group, I’ve been saying he’s a cap dump for years now. Would have to pay me pretty well to consider taking Gibson.

While I don’t disagree with your point, you picked a poor example. In 2023, John Gibson was 30 years old, and hadn’t had a save percentage above .904 since 2018-2019, not exactly #1 goaltender material. But yes, even if you have a good goalie, if there’s a goalie at the top of your board, you should take them. Odds are it’ll take 5 years before they’re NHL ready and by that time your good goalie could be terrible, declining, or you might have too many good goalies which is a good problem to have. Most goalies should be eased into the league anyway, so a cheap quality backup is beneficial anyways. A somewhat better example would be Nashville in 2020, who picked Askarov at 11 overall despite having a 25 year old Saros whose lowest save percentage the last 4 years was a .914. Though with that example there is a counterargument that the next 2 picks after Askarov were Lundell and Jarvis, who would make the Predators a better team now.