Quoting: math731
Id argue that he is in the same category as Matthews and Eichel who are franchise players (not generational). Even without two extra first rounders, we're still stacked for the next 2-3 years imo.
The depth and skills of this lineup is among the best in the league, plus we get to have our own Matthews, MacKinnon, Eichel, etc.
Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Lafrenière-KK-Drouin
Caufield (at the end of 2020-2021)-Suzuki-Armia
Lehkonen-Poehling-Evans (Byron)
Ylonen
Romanov-Weber
Chiarot-Petry
Norlinder (by the end of 2020-2021)-Fleury
Struble*-Juulsen
+two high second round picks
By keeping the 3 picks, we're simply adding players that wont be ready until 2021-2022 at the very least and even though this next line up would be great, we'd have too much skilled players for so many pp time and ice time in general.
Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Caufield-Suzuki-Perfetti
Drouin-KK-Jarvis
Lehkonen-Poehling-Armia
Byron, Evans, Ylonen
Romanov-Weber
Sanderson-Petry
Chiarot-Fleury
Norlinder, Struble, Juulsen
And that is if those guys pan out... I have no worry about Perfetti and Sanderson but they sure have less chances than Laf to reach their max potential.
I'll have to disagree with that assessment. I do not think Lafreniere is in that calibre group with most hockey analysts agreeing with me and on top of all this, hes a winger, those guys are centers. They control the game way more than wingers do.
He is being compared to guys like Huberdeau. Great player, dont get me wrong but 9/10 people say Barkov is the better player because centers are more important.
Plus I mean you basically made the point against it in your previous post to convince me Detroit should accept.....
"So based on past drafts, its basically :
Hughes for 3 of Zegras, Cozens, Caufield, Podkolzin, Newhook or Soderstrom
Dahlin for Hughes, Boqvist, Farabee
Hischier for 3 of Necas, Suzuki, Brannstrom, Vilardi or Tippett."
In any one of those drafts, id take 3 of those players over the first overall any day.
Make no mistake about it, if Lafreniere's name was Alex Lawton, we wouldnt even be having this conversation. Thats the problem IMO.