“He’s [Schaefer] one of those guys like you can’t get until you draft. Like you have to draft a kid like that because teams never let guys like that ever go. Like Cale Makar is never going to leave Colorado, you know what I mean?” Barzal said.
He added, “I don’t know what’s going on with Quinn Hughes in Vancouver right now, but those kind of d-men are so, and I feel like to get to that next level as a franchise, you need one of those guys. You’re always in the hunt when you have a good d-core and him and that Aitcheson kid who we just drafted, those two are going to set up so nicely for the next 15 years.”