Quoting: The_Cannon
My guy. You want the 5th pick. You get nothing else. We’re rebuilding we’re not selling the farm for rienhart.
Marchenko is looking like a stud, tex has the tools, needs to find consistency in his play to be a top 6 player. A late first and a 1b goalie. This deal is already too much for my taste. I’d offer foudy, korpi, domi/ Jenner and Toronto’s first for rienhart alone I’m not as high on him and don’t want to overreach as a retooling team on a so so center. (Not a proven center- very good player, doesn’t fill a role we need). If you think we add March and the 5th overall, as I’ve been told all day on this site via Seth Jones be prepared to be disappointed, the only difference is Seth Jones’s reputation is stupidly high in nhl circles.
I think Columbus is gonna try to reload instead of rebuild. I don’t think they are moving fifth unless it’s for Eichel. And when you look at their roster, they’re really not that bad....they have talent, but with Seth Jones, they will get a lot for him, but they still need to replace him in some way which is why Risto makes sense to me.
For Reinhart, he’s more than a so so center.....he played very well under Granato in a small sample given the opportunity and he’s always been a natural center, but he was never given a look at the position, for whatever reason. He’s just got to get better at the dot.
If I’m CBj my issue with Reinhart is not his ability to play center, it’s the question of can you sign him long term? Because for some reason star players always want out of Columbus.
But at the end of the day, if Columbus is really committed to a reload over a rebuild and Jarmo really wants to compete quickly, Reinhart might be the only option unless you want to give up the Nationwide arena and the Ohio State Buckeyes for Eichel. Other options would probably be a guys like Nugent-Hopkins or Danault ( neither is a true 1C and can CBJ lure one of them there?), trading for Sean Monahan and hoping for a bounce back year but he has a no trade clause and trading for Kuznetsov, but he also has a no trade Clause.
Reinhart might end up being the best option
For me, for Columbus and Buffalo....I like the idea of a Jenner-Risto swap. I also like the idea of a Reinhart and Risto package together to get a group of guys like Foudy, Jenner, a goalie and a first