Modifié 2 sept. 2021 à 11 h 25
Quoting: CMcAvoy73
Dude he was a third round pick. He probably wasn’t even on the wilds radar. You’re acting like they traded down from the first overall.
Let’s pump the brakes on calling a guy with 350 games a future hall of famer.
I'm sorry, did you really just say that
Brayden Point isn't already a future hall of famer? And that we should hold off on calling him one just because he was drafted in the 3rd round and has played less than 400 games in the NHL to date?
Dude... the guy is already a top ten center in the league and has a couple Stanley Cups on his resume by only his age 25 season. That's better than a few select and universally accepted players who're already considered to be future HOF'ers. I'm talking about McDavid, Mackinnon and Matthews. All of whom have exactly zero cups, combined. If people are ready to annoint those 3 as future hall of famers, than Point deserves to be held in that regard as well. They might be better players, but he's had the better
career so far. I think you're underscoring how much of an impact he's already had on the league.
So he's played only 351 games to date in his career, but he's also scored 310 points in those 351 games. He's even better in the post season with 73 points in 67 career playoff games. He's also proven and shown himself to be consistent with his high level of production, to date as well. So unless he suddenly falls off a cliff in terms of scoring point production, there's nothing to suggest his numbers aren't sustainable which would put him easily on pace for HOF level type numbers.
So no, I don't think it's a stretch at all to say he's a future HOF'er, even at this stage in his career.
As for treating that pick like it's a 1st overall. I’m not. I'm well aware that Point was taken in the 3rd, and that he was passed over by 30 teams not once but twice. I get that, but that has more to do with most Franchises continued stubbornness and absolute refusal to draft High-Skill/High-Upside players just because they're
short, irregardless of whether they're 1st round talents, let alone a top ten pick type talent. So these type of prospects always drop, hard, in every draft class.
But that wasn't the point of my original comment in the first place.
My comment, since it didn't seem to register for you, was more to do with the fact that after trading down a spot and losing out on what turned out to be an elite 1C,
in hindsight, which the original poster was using in an what if scenario that he could of been a Habs player if he'd accepted the offersheet and it wasn't matched. But the guy taken one spot
after Point, Louis Belpedio, did
in fact eventually become a Habs player. Point is merely being used as the segway and set up, while Belpedio is the punchline.
I'm sorry, but I find that hilarious.