Quoting: Legendsofthenorth
This a great convo because really you don't know
I don't know what level they'll reach, I absolutely know neither of them are physical, aggressive, or "big" in any sense that matters.
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Minnesota also needs another guy with a unbelievable quick release on the PP. Holtz has that. Rossi has way better ice vision but Holtz release is sick. Minnesota has enough distributors already.
Minnesota does need more guys with better shots, but surely they can find one that doesn't have all the question marks Holtz has. Ohgren, for example, is one. Yurov can be another one. That's two without even going outside of the organization. We can afford to not hyper focus on one good quality of this player if we're trading Rossi for him.
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Spurgeon is getting older. Wild can groom Casey to take over his role. Not saying he will be Spurgeon, just saying the role fits him.
There is a lot of grooming required to turn Casey into anything close to what Spurgeon is. Defensively, Case is about as close to Spurgeon as Holtz's goal scoring is to Kaprizov's.
Russo isn't a good analyst, but given all the context clues of the last year or so, it's really not hard to understand how Guerin could be looking to replace Rossi with size and physicality. I mean that's not a leap to just assume that's true.