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Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 18 heures
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ChiHawk</b></div><div>Byram is not Korchinski, let's be honest. Byram has struggled playing on a top team and dealt with injuries, not to mention Korchinski was playing better coming out of the juniors than byram. Korchinski, is one of the most highly touted defensive prospects 21 and under in the league and the youngest defender in the league today. I respectfully think you are overestimating Zegras's value as well. 23 goals and 65 points last season and on pace for .33ppg this season is not exactly a rarity in the league and especially one that isn't good defensively...his production also isn't high enough to totally overlook his defensive shortcomings despite how flashy of a player he is either. To put this in perspective, you have a forward guy like Jason Dickinson on a bad team at a .46ppg rate while on pace for 23 goals with little PP time and being very good defensively as well leading the PK unit...that's on a crap team. So then the debate is he's only 23, and to that end I would argue you have to conflate potential with performance. And that's not wrong in either player's case, as potential is what a team is buying with a 19 year old and to a lesser degree a 23 year old. You named a few teams that may not be interested in a top LHD prospect/young player, but a top defensive young player prospect is always more valuable than a top 6 forward apples to apples unless he's a lock down top center which Zegras is not. I would still say many teams would view Korchinski as more valuable than Zegras depending on current roster and where they are at in competing or not and the Hawks are one of them and I'm 99% sure of that.</div></div>
Gabriel Landeskog is on pace for 0 ppg this season, so does that lower HIS value? Your citation of Zegras' figure this year is . . . well, since I value your knowledge and insight, I'll just say . . . uncharacteristic. He was averaging 1 point per game in the 5 games he played uninjured this year.

I completely understand why Korchinski is so valuable to Chicago, and I agree completely. It's extremely rare for a team to be able to draft what looks like a long-term #1LhD. And it's easier to find a first-line forward than it is to find a first-pairing defender.

My point is that Korchinski has a different value to different teams. You wouldn't trade him for Zegras or Caufield. Fine. But if he were on Anaheim's roster, we'd trade him for Caufield in a heartbeat, and if he were on Buffalo's books, they would trade him for Caufield or Zegras in a nanosecond. And had he been on Colorado's roster, the Avs would have traded him to Buffalo just as fast as they did Byram.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 21 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 21 heures