Trotz On Tomasino, Fabbro: “There is a stigma with the first-round pick. If you’re picking in the top 10 and you don’t get a player that can play, that’s more of a problem. Anything after 10, like from 15 to 32, there’s not as big of a difference between 15 and 32 than the early second round.”

19 comments

  1. Maybe he can let other GMs know this so that they will start giving away their young talent as well.

  3. Mid-late first rounder = 4th rounder 3 years later or waiver player.

    They’re basically the same thing

    Really giving me “It’s a banana, Micheal. What could it cost? $10?” energy

  4. I honestly don’t disagree with him. I wanted Tomasino and Fabbro to be good but they’re nothing more than depth guys

  5. It’s crazy he’s the first one to figure this out, since no one else is doing what we are.

  6. Well good thing we didn’t get a first rounder OR an early second rounder

    Or a third rounder

    ….

  7. This makes me worried about him trading away one of our 3 1sts this next draft for another Michael McCarron type player

  9. He is 100% right. People see first rounders in football or basketball and think it equates in hockey. Anything outside the top 5 is a crapshoot and even in those 5 it still isn’t a guarantee. Hockey for whatever reason is so hard to scout and for players to transfer their skills to the NHL.

  11. Worth pointing out that Trotz rebuild plan so far doesn’t involve a pick in the top 10. Best he’s had was 15. 

    Which might as well be a second. 

    Rebuild! 

  12. To be fair, We literally talk about how a 1-15 pick is so much more valuable than a 15-32 pick ALL THE TIME in this sub.

  13. OK here is a ? For everyone. Is it better that he got something for thomasino and Glass
    Or have them fall to the same fate as fabro and Tolvanen w waivers?

    Plus
    I think Barry trotz is very calculated. In who and what he trades and has been trying to trade Glass and thomasino and couldn’t get anything of major value over the summer.

    Hoped they would work out and they didn’t. Then essentially took whatever he could get

  14. Fans: “We are mediocre and need a top 10 pick to rebuild”.

    Team: Were bad this year and will get a top 10 pick and several other picks in the first round

    Fans: “Im outraged were a bottom dweller”

  16. Crazy how many people think any draft pick outside the top 10 is going to be guaranteed ass. Many teams best players have been drafted outside the top 10. Just because the Preds suck at drafting and developing players does not make it universally true for all teams.

  19. There’s a stigma about “serial winners.” You think you can just pick them up, even in the backend of their career, and they will keep on winning. But you have to look where they came from. Were they solely carrying their team? Or were they on a properly drafted, developed, and built team, surrounded by supporting talent, including talent higher than themselves?

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