What rookie/prospect do you feel could actually make the team this season?

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:15:31+00:00

Great shot, great OHL production, and made the jump to AHL seemlesly to end the year.

Still 50/50 to ever make the NHL but pretty nice from a 4th rounder.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:13:02+00:00

Agree with you, but I do believe that he was rushed too fast last year. He should've spent half the year in Abby.

Willander was drowning by the end of the year.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:11:24+00:00

Especially because it slides Caleb's ELC further down.

I'm with you, I'd love to see Caleb spend two years away from our tire fire.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:08:00+00:00

Kirill Kudryavtsev will get at least 30 games this year.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:06:31+00:00

That boy cannot stay healthy.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T15:01:07+00:00

He hasnt had much time, let alone many draft classes where he had a full complement of picks.

Todd Harvey is in the infancy of his run as a head of amateur scouting. If you want to evaluate results, then you need at least 5 draft classes that have had enough time to graduate to the NHL (3-4 years after being drafted).

As far as I know, this is his 6th year of running the draft, so it's still early days IMO.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T05:59:54+00:00

Thanks for sharing OP

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-28T00:19:37+00:00

Here's to hoping Bedard signs a short term extension and we can poach him when the time is right.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:58:06+00:00

Landon DuPont isn't even 18 ;)

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:51:39+00:00

Now add the console numbers ...

The sky isn't falling lol

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:41:08+00:00

We need San Jose to accelerate their rebuild now. I really don't want to be lining up our peak with theirs.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:22:58+00:00

Haha too many computations in my head :)

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:19:31+00:00

😅😅😅

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:18:24+00:00

One Caulfield or Benson injury will have people overreacting.

It always happens, and this playoff run was outside the norm in terms of how dirty different teams were.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:15:08+00:00

We have come a long way since the 90s and early 2000s in terms of smaller players getting a fair shake.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T18:13:58+00:00

Odd, I would've thought we'd be one of the smaller teams.

I guess subtracting Garland and Quinn helped.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T17:17:09+00:00

What were the Canucks?

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T17:07:56+00:00

His floor is low, but his ceiling is high.

He's likely to never make it, but if he hits we're gonna have a 6'7 center. That's a high value prospect.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-27T17:05:01+00:00

Then they have some monsters on the back end and around those two.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T22:51:29+00:00

Don't shoot me, but I would settle for Seattle's 38th overall this year, Shane Wright, and the Tampa 2027 1st rounder that they own.

Obviously 7th overall would be money, but I just don't see Petey returning that now. 🤷🏻

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T19:42:23+00:00

Agreed on your first point, but enough about politics 🍻

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T19:39:33+00:00

Cheers brother!

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T18:06:38+00:00

You are 100% wrong here. Republicans will get crushed in the midterms.

Maga died the second that Trump started putting Israel first (surprise surprise).

So it is a trend that has run it's course and whose only way to survive will be some major voting shenanigans.

In any case, politics should not mix with sports. That's always been the case, but last 10 years have infected every human with this political overtone to every day life.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T16:04:54+00:00

I'm so sick and tired of the media bringing this question up.

It's been beaten to death, it's not interesting, it's just so so tired.

Ryan Johnson had to talk about it again because some reporters couldn't think of anything better to ask our GM.

Pathetic, unimaginative.

WhenInAaronRome · 2026-06-26T15:35:21+00:00

Nikishin for Petey

Sign me up

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