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I would not do that as CAR

Deal!

A 3 and 4 does not close the gap between Andersson and Bean as prospects

HOLY NO. I understand the idea, but jeez man. You're trying to gift bean to a division rival? Good lord. He's got value man, he's the most NHL ready defensive prospect in the world right now. He's toying with the AHL. He's not gonna be given away for something as HORRIFIC as this. He's likely going to be packaged out for a forward

makes sense.

Just ignore all of Byram Soderstrom Smith Boqvist Dobson Bouchard Rafferty Farrance Perunovich Rathbone and Mitchell

None are more NHL ready than Bean. Bean just won D man of the year in the NHL's feeder league

I dont agree with this. There are plenty of Dman prospects outside of the AHL that will be better than Bean

A. How often do NHL awards go to the player that deserves them... i can't imagine the AHL is better at that (and he wouldn't have been my pick either)
B. He likely won't develop as much as most of those players during the off-season
C. The AHL is not a good developmental league, and is not a good league compared to the KHL (Romanov) SHL (Lundkvist) or even Liiga
Perunovich won best player (and was my number 2 to Farrance) in a league not far behind the AHL, and Farrance would have gotten my vote probably
Byram broke some records in the WHL, and took massive strides in his defensive game last year, and has a much steeper aging curve than Bean (and Smith should have won CHL d man of the year, but Hoefenmayer had bointzz on a loaded Ottawa team)
Soderstrom was NHL ready this year by all accounts, and has the benefit of a steeper aging curve on his side, and was very good in a much better league
Dobson isn't really a prospect anymore bc he was in the NHL all of last year, but he didn't play a ton, so is debatable
Rafferty took massive strides to fix his defensive game towards the end of the year and likely would have seen a call up had covid not happened

I didn't say there weren't. I just said he's the most NHL ready. Right now he is the most likely to play in the NHL next year and succeed.

Not even close in my opinion. Like I said, there are better players outside the AHL that can step into the NHL and be better