Quoting: Celtics21
If fans were valuing Coronato or Wolf as late 2nd round picks, you’d speak up.
With the failure rate of prospects, I think your position.on your plethora of prospects is naive. Lysell likely gets significant playing time in Calgary if he was traded there. Watch him this year if you’d like to see what he’s become
Zadarov and Lindholm went for exactly what their market was and it’s for considerably less than any of the packages that you have tossed out there.
I will acknowledge that once Hanifin is traded, he may view that as a more viable long term place to stay vs Calgary, but he is just months away from FA and his hometown team has opportunity, interest, and cap space plus they are just frankly a better team right now.
Boston shouldn’t trade their 3 NHL ready prospects if they are being valued below a late first in a bad draft.
Lindholm went for more than I had proposed, which was a 1st, a blue chip prospect and whatever salary dump that came back. The 4th/3rd and Joni Jurmo are toss-ins above that rate. Hunter Brzustewicz, the 2024 first-round pick and kuzmenko were exactly the return expected. Conversely, Zadorov's return wasn't as good, but Conroy's priority was not retaining salary and moving him before it became a distraction to the team. Hanifin is having a great year (as opposed to Lindholm) and is younger. It's not unreasonable to expect a return in line with Lindholm's: 1st, bluechip prospect, and whatever salary needs to come back. Lysell's junior numbers are close to Hunter Brzustewicz's, except the latter is an RD and 3rd in OHL scoring. If you look at the previous award winners of OHL scoring for d-men most went on the be good NHL players (Rasmus Anderson, Ryan Ellis, Dougie Hamilton, Evan Bouchard.... I'll ignore Deangelo but he is there too). In short, Calgary will trade for the best package, and this could easily be beaten by other teams who have draft capital and depth at the positions they need.
I'm well aware of why the AHL is the farm system: many prospects who excel in the AHL don't in the NHL (Matt Phillips was a leading scorer in the AHL and struggled this year). Of all our top prospects, only Wolf and Hunter Brzustewicz aren't wingers:
Honzek- LW
Zary -LW/C.
Pelletier - LW
Coronato -RW
Bell -LW/RW
Pospisil -RW
Suniev - LW/RW
There isn't a ton of wingers spots on our roster and we only have two natural centers playing right now at the NHL level.
Regardless of the probabilities of any player being a success at the NHL level, the distribution of the prospect pool is what it is: Calgary has more wingers on their NHL roster and in the system than any other position. Natural Centers and Defense is lacking in our system. Calgary also isn't in a position to buy a rental or contend for the cup, so your point about including wolf or Coronato in a deal is moot. If we were AZ, Buffalo, Ottawa or NJ and had the chance to take a run at the cup, then a rental would make sense. They have the prospect depth to make those moves without it severely impacting them down the road. Calgary doesn't. Boston doesn't either, which is why you are overvaluing bruin's prospects in comparison to other teams comparable prospects. Just because they are more critical to your team doesn't mean they are better than a prospect on another team with a deep farm system.