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Forum: NHL SigningsAug. 24, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.
Thread: San Jose Sharks signed Jasper Weatherby (2 Years / $925,000 AAV)
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Claesson4Norris</b></div><div>I don't know about that. He's not a high upside player by any stretch of the imagination, but he's a large C with pro level skating, and he plays relatively sound hockey in all situations. He's definitely a pretty big long shot, but I think the tools are there for him to find success as a depth forward at the NHL level.</div></div>

Ehh I just really don’t see the upside. He’s not bad but he’s just kind of a washed prospect at this point. Don’t really see him jumping out of the AHL anytime. I’d love to be proven wrong though some of the tools are there.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>all these people who don't watch games but got comments.

People make these same comments out of guys like Caulfield.
Anyone sleeping on the crew out of ND is out of pocket.

That is one good team. And those are some really good players on it. They were a 5OT game away from the frozen 4 last year. Against a power house team in MIN-DEL.
There are multiple players on that team who are going to be NHL guys in a few years.</div></div>

Uhhh not sure where this is coming from but even if you don’t watch a ton of games, it’s pretty obvious Weatherby just isn’t that good. He was drafted as an overager, and put up less than a P/PG as a 23 y/o in the NCAA on a good UND team. I watched a few playoff games last year (although not many). But in those games it was brutally obvious that guys like Sanderson, JBD and Shane Pinto were much better prospects. The reason why people shouldn’t have slept on Caufield is cause he was putting up a GOAL a game as a 19-20 year old. I’m not saying I want him to not succeed, but he’s not better than Chmelevski, Gregor, Pederson, or Gambrell by any stretch of the imagination.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 24, 2021 at 3:00 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 24, 2021 at 2:07 p.m.
Thread: 2 Capfriendly Hertl deals I actually liked
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Dude_Chill</b></div><div>In no particular order
Mcdavid
Draisaitl
Stamkos
Point
Scheifele
Toews
Suzuki
Matthews
Tavares
Malkin
Crosby
Giroux
Couturier
Kuznetsov
Backstrom
Bergeron
Barkov
Reinhart
Seguin
O’Reilly
MacKinnon
Kopitar
Danault
Zibanejad
Petterson
Horvat
Barzal
Larkin
Eichel
That’s 29 and there’s others that I wouldnt say are better or worse than hertl so not a chance he’s top 30 maybe in the 30s</div></div>

At this stage of some of those guys careers - I’d think the following are relatively in the same tier and pretty interchangeable.

Toews - Hertl way better, dude hasn’t played in over a year and likely won’t be what he was 5 years ago
Suzuki - not as good yet
Malkin - with injuries, would take Hertl
Kuznetsov - Hertl is better at this stage and with less baggage
Backstrom - about even
Reinhart - Hertl better or even at worst
Seguin - with injuries last couple seasons Hertl is better
O’Reilly - even
Danault - even
Zibanejad - even
Horvat - even
Larkin - Hertl better

You’re not objectively showing how he’s worse than all the guys you listed.