RoyalDude wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:30 am
The Swedish Gretzky will have this team pushing for the playoffs all season, the kid is a winner wherever he goes. Lose your top 2019 pick dreams while you can Blobbee! Plus, Benning has proved that he don’t need a top 10 pick to find gems in the draft
Swedish Gretzky, good one. Man, last few years it felt like we missed out on some generational talent like McJesus, Matthews, Laine, etc, but it's really starting to look like JB found one 5th overall in Elias Pettersson. I don't think we've ever had an elite superstar centre. I guess Hank was pretty close, but only for about a 3 year period. We did have Bure, Nasi and Bert, but they were wingers. I think a team really needs a star centre to win a Cup (way more important than a winger). If* things keep progressing like this for our young players, we could be really deep down the middle.
1) Pettersson: the Swedish Gretzky
2) BoHo: future captain, Toews like 2-way game
3) Gaudette: Kesler lite.
4) Sutter/Beags: faceoff, defensive, PK specialists
Right now, Gaudette's the biggest question mark. He's just too green and we don't really know what we have in* him yet. If he can become a Kesler type player, man, this team will be a Cup contender for many, many years.