Quoting: newman23
Vlasic is borderline untouchable for the hawks at this point in the rebuild. He's a plus player on the worst team in the league as a rookie - all the makings of an elite shutdown guy.
Quoting: Garak
What makes you think CHI would do that trade?
Quoting: klassic
Take out Vlassic and replace with 4th round pick. Either you are vastly overvaluing Toronto players, or you have no idea who Vlassic is.
One of the great things that Capfriendly did recently was partner with a scouting firm to provide free scouting reports on all players.
Now I'm sure you guys didn't take the time to read the press release but this firm makes millions selling it's scouting reports to NHL teams and offers a more limited free version on this site.
I'd highly encourage you all to navigate to the players names, click their name, and click on their scouting report. It includes amazing things like projecting the role of that player.
If you took the time to use this feature which was inbuilt to raise the quality of discussion on this site instead of people just saying random BS. You'd see that the consensus scout report for Vlasic is that he will be a mid-range 3rd pairing D. The kind of guy you pickup in FA every summer on a League Min deal.
If you looked at Robertson you'd see a higher end 3rd liner as his projections and Timmins is also a higher end 3rd pairing D than Vlasic.
These types of comments from Hawks fans really put this data into perspective: https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/797075