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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 4, 2023 at 1:19 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 4, 2023 at 12:16 a.m.
Thread: Jets dream deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jets12Kozy</b></div><div>Salo is shutting down top lines in the SHL at 19 years old.</div></div>

Change "SHL" to "Liiga" and you're describing Robin Salo, who was drafted #46 after his age-19 season. He's played 31 NHL games to date, and it's been almost a full calendar year since his last appearance.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jets12Kozy</b></div><div>Lucuis has looked filthy everywhere hes played <strong>barring injury</strong>.</div></div>

Emphasis mine. Lucius is back on the ice now, but for how long? I don't doubt the talent, but he's had an inauspicious start to his professional career.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Jets12Kozy</b></div><div>A "proven commodity" on pace for 0 goals and 11 assists this season, Boqvist was a dime per dozen mobile Dman putting up ok numbers on the pp.</div></div>

What Boqvist is doing now is hardly relevant to how his value was perceived at the time of the trade. When he was traded, he was 21 years old and had already been given playoff minutes and been trusted to be the PP QB on a team that still had Duncan Keith. Acting like he wasn't a desirable trade chip after the 2020-21 season because he's struggling in the 2023-24 season is revisionist history.

I also stressed the proven commodity idea because the Islanders have *not* proven all that well at developing mid &amp; lower-tier prospects. Going back to 2016 (so all of Lou's drafts + the 2 years before that, since those were all U21s that the Lamoriello regime inherited &amp; developed), the Islanders have had a grand total of 4 players drafted after the 2nd round (out of a potential 33) actually appear in the NHL. And even though they've had 9 of their 13 1st+2nd rounders get NHL time in that span, the general consensus is that any player not named Noah Dobson has been a bit of a letdown. This is why, if I'm entertaining the thought of trading the only draft success story this team has had since Mat Barzal, I would be looking for something more concrete than guys with red flags like Lucius and Salomonsson.