Quoting: exo2769
He was a .88ppg player with the Hawks before the idiots upstairs thought Strome was a winger. That was the dumbest move I've seen since the Hawks thought Kane was a center in 2011/2012. DStrome is a true center. The irony about this being a BUF trade is that the closest comp Strome is to any prospect out there...is another kid named Dylan...Cozens. Their progressing is darn near identical rates. The differences are home town biases on both fronts.
Two spots in this draft doesn't mean a whole lot. Their tier drop off by most a lot of accounts is pick #10...where the Lundell/Askarov. A completely different way of looking at it is draft analytics...Link below that's a bit dated to be perfectly honest, but I'll even skew the analytics to your favor...4.6 is the delta to drop from 7 to 9...Let's make it 5 even...which means approx. pick #50...mid to lower 2nd round pick. Strome's 100% better than a mid to lower 2nd round pick. I'm not so sure Mittelstadt is worth a 2nd round pick at this point. I mean his AHL numbers aren't even really that impressive.
https://www.broadstreethockey.com/2013/4/25/4262594/nhl-draft-pick-value-trading-up
Great comment, well thought out and constructive. Much better than most.
Thank you for the links, I love to look at this sort of stuff. That is exactly the one I was looking at to determine if this was a good deal. This was giving the value of a late a late 2nd round pick (I think the 55th) to Strome without adding Mittelstadt which no matter what our opinion of Casey may be it makes it a better pick probably like an early 2nd or even a late first.
Let's be honest here, GM's give different values to players. For example Bowman thought Nylander was more valuable than Jokiharju, maybe he would think Mittelstadt's future is more valuable than Strome current value? I just do not know, Does this make sense?
I have not read much about this draft and how deep it is. If this was the 2017 draft (Mittelstadt's), I would make this trade without question. I do not know much about the talent of the 2020 draft.
Ok, let's agree that this deal is close to fair, and maybe it is perfect for the Sabres to get a 2nd line center and give Cozens a chance to develop in the minors.
So what is the current value of Strome? A late second, hard to tell, IDK, but having the 7th over all v the 9th over all seems to be more than the value of Strome to me.
Would you make the trade with out Mittelstadt going to the Hawks?