raithis Verified Member Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 22 hours ago, Pewterschmidt said: Re: Jack Johnson - insert my standard rant about Judd & bill spending draft capital on defensemen repeatedly since they arrived. At some point one has to determine that this regime is not competent when it comes to assessing NHL potential. I think most people expect to get something out of Buium and Jiricek and they've looked like the potential is definitely there. Of course, the jury is still out on whether they will apply any of it, so we'll see. That, and I still feel like Lambos will be a decent defenseman long-term, but I'm not expecting much more than a player that's kind of like a Soucy or Middleton. That's nice and all I suppose. Hopefully he does better than that, but he's running out of runway to show he can. With Brodin out, I'd like him to step up, edge out Johnson, and show that he's ready to at least play as well as someone like Merrill to start with, but if that's all he can do still 8 games in, I think we'll all be pretty underwhelmed. Spacek maybe...hard to say with him. People around him seem to think he's great, but I haven't really seen much yet personally. I get what you are saying though. It feels like there should be more there, or at least more that aren't late bloomers (at least that frequently seems to be the theme if they bloom at all). Our scouting department seems kind of myopic at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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