Quoting: Xqb15
So “he looks like he is going to be very good” and “has a nice season” and 20 for a guy the Avs ran to the podium to draft 4th overall. “But I doubt he’ll be as good as “
Think I’ll trust the scouting department that the team literally spends millions on to not give away a guy consensusly ranked as not just the Avs best prospect but worst case the 3rd best prospect in the league.
Good teams rarely get to add elite talent via the draft, when they do and make it count they build something special. Trading even that potential away for a bunch of spare parts is at best short sighted and more realistically stupid. I mean come on your willing to trade the #4 overall picked basically a yr ago for a bunch of maybe’s and hopefully’s not even seeing him play a SINGLE nhl game.
Bad decision.
To put it in a different context, it would be trading #4 OA for two firsts (one in a very deep and good draft) and one of the better prospects in the league who is also pretty much a sure thing in Batherson. The value is fair. Add that I think (a) Byram is a bit over hyped and not a sure thing, and (b) the Avs may not be able to utilize him properly means I'd probably take the deal.
Honestly I'd have to look deeper at the roster and projections to fully make that determination, but that's where I'm at. Newhook, Batherson, and a guy like Lapierre, Zary, or Perreault (plus maybe O'Rourke with the Avs pick) gives the team a great future up front to go along with Makar, Girard, and Timmins on the back end. I can see this extending the window by quite a bit and having a cumulative effect that is better than adding Byram.
You're definitely right to trust the scouting department over me. I'm just some dude on the internet. I can give my opinions though, and that's what they are.