Quoting: Pijonty
I would like to be as well but double hip surgery and sports hernia surgery at 19 while also playing in the Q inflated numbers.
Vitalii Abramov had 300 points in 3 Q seasons, look where he is now
Again, fair! But PPG Dumais has produced at a higher rate, and that is with the surgery addressing issues that he had been dealing with for years now.
Maybe he comes out of rehab a different player (which, again, not unreasonable to expect), but I still like him. Abramov was a kid who generally produced at a high level in the AHL, but never cracked the NHL. Wouldn’t blame the kid for signing a KHL contract that took him to NHL UFA.
Scott Wheeler did a dive, and relative levels of production across all junior levels, this is a kid whose floor projects as Conor Garland. If that’s the level we are supposed to expect, I’m OK with it.
All told. It’s one thing if Dumais is in a trade for an established, need-now player, versus another prospect. Just makes for a few years of nervousness when dealing with who turns into who over time for prospects. I wouldn’t hate this trade, but I also feel like the ‘25 1st alone would be fair.