Modifié 3 août 2023 à 16 h 5
Quoting: BankersBox
I disagree.
Chicago has 3 young goalies Soderblom, Commesso and Gajan.
They are healthy with D Prospects.
Petry can still play and could fetch another 2nd round pick retained at the deadline... but bringing in these specific players just adds to the log jam at the backend. Chicago will give their own prospects a chance.
Hmmm... I think I'd take this deal. Yes, the Hawks have an abundance of Ds in the pipeline. However, they are overwhelmingly LD, not R. They have a paucity of RD prospects in the system, and Smith can apparently play both sides so I'd take him on.
Ds take a LONG time to mature; we could be bringing in vets on short-term deals for five years as it stands now, even if we draft a bunch of RDs in next year's draft (which is supposed to strong in Ds.) I'd rather get a few now and get started in our RD development prior to exclusively drafting 18-year olds next year.
I'm not worried about having too many good goalie prospects; that's a good problem to have. And we don't know which one (or two these days) will be the one(s) that will be the starter(s) in the future.
Hey, reasonable minds can disagree. Cheers