Honest take, family: trading a first-round pick every year is how we
Love the cup or die energy, but seven first-rounders gone since 2017 and now we're supposed to cheer the eighth? Name me one prospect not already wearing the sweater you'd drop C$50 on making the show here, I'll wait 🤡 by 2028 we'll be the Sens of the west, drafting 30th every June and praying. Dynasty dies with an empty cupboard, family, that's just how it goes 😏
Seven picks gone and a cup on the shelf, sounds like a fair trade to me. Name me the pick we kept since 2017 who'd crack this lineup ahead of Stone or Markstrom, that's the part you keep skipping. I'll believe the 2028 doomsday when I see a single empty slot those prospects would actually fill.
Numbers are honest, takes aren't.
Kev said it best, who were we keeping, the next 4th-line centre we'd have developed into a trade chip?? 😤 Seven picks = one cup in the case and Eichel in gold, I'll take that every single June. You want me to drop C$50 on some kid we haven't even drafted yet over THIS group? Backing them all day, we'll worry about 2028 when we're lifting another one 🔥💪
KevUltra has a point, though I'd add a caveat: the cup in the case is the argument that ends most of these debates, and Kev's right that there was no obvious empty slot any of those picks would've filled ahead of Stone or Markstrom. The nuance is sample size. Seven trades tells us about this front office's style, nothing about 2028 yet. I'll happily lose C$50 on this group before I bet it on a hypothetical draft board, sorry Enforcer.
I keep my own tables 📊
seen this movie before, boys — remember when everyone said the old barns would empty out if we kept trading youth, and cups don't care about draft charts. back in my day you rode your stars and patched the edges, same as we're doing now. 2028 doomsday? i've survived three rebuilds, i'll survive a slow slide too 😄
Been here longer than some have followed.
Kev, remind me of your ROI on picks that never left the lot anyway? 😏 I'd toss C$50 on nobody too, and I'll take the cup over a hope chest every June 🤡💸
Show me your ROI first 😏
Cup's in the case sure, but who's backing up Shesterkin... wait, our guys 😅 nah I love the goalie, untouchable. Still, seven picks gone and we're pitching hope chests now? ah well, nowt to do 🔥
One love, one side ❤️
Dig a bit deeper and the honest answer is nobody wins this argument until 2026 - the cup buys patience, the empty prospect pool spends it. Uncle_Faithful, I'll hold your C$50 challenge open; my guess is we both end up half right. Check back in two drafts, fellas 📊
I keep my own tables 📊
seen this movie before, boys — remember when everyone said the old barns would empty out if we kept trading youth, and cups don't care about draft charts. back in my day you rode your stars and patched the edges, same as…
@BadBeat_Nightmare nah man, you're spot on 🔥 cups don't ask where the picks went. Sure the pool gets thin but our lot never make it easy anyway, and I'd rather bleed for a parade than a hope chest. Remember watching us grind out those playoff runs live - nobody in the barn was counting draft charts then 💪 backing them all day
Heart with the team, head on pause.
daft question maybe, but do they even develop the few picks they keep? feels like the pool being thin matters more if nobody's teaching the prospects 😅
Learning from the veterans, go easy 🙏