My growing concern is now also spreading to pro scouting. They have hit on a few (Byron/Weise/Danault/Benn?)
But the list of misses is growing:
Zach Redmond
Andreas Martinsen
Dwight King
Nikita Nesterov
Stefan Matteau
Max Friberg
Lucas Lessio
Brian Flynn
Jiri Sekac
George Parros
Davis Drewiske
Blake Geoffrion
Add to that the squandered assets... Jeebus
Jesus, let's stop this hysteria. Every teams have those lists. Let's go through it will ya?
Zach Redmond -> Free agent depth at minimal salary, at a decent first camp then got injured then fell out of favor. No harm done.
Andreas Martinsen -> Traded for Sven, I don't like this deal personally but we were about to probably lose him for nothing anyway
Dwight King -> 4th round pick. This was a waste of a pick.
Nikita Nesterov -> Racine + 6th pick. Markov was injured and we needed temporary help on the PP. Not much hurt.
Stefan Matteau -> DSP. He fell out of favor after the incident with Galchenyuk so we shipped him out for an ok prospect at the time. It's a loss.
Max Friberg -> Dustin Tokarski. No loss for some help in the AHL.
Lucas Lessio -> Thomas played 1 game in Arizona. A wash
Brian Flynn -> Flynn and Mitchell were acquired for a 5th and a 7th and played 281 games with us. I'll take those deal any time.
Jiri Sekac -> Freebie who turned into DSP who gave us one ok season.
George Parros -> 7th round pick. I somewhat got the need for an enforcer as Sens, Bruins and Leafs all had one but he got injured and never could really prove his value.
Davis Drewiske -> 5th round pick, waste of a pick
Blake Geoffrion -> The guy had a freak career ending injury, gimme a break!
Total cost of those "misses" : Andrighetto, Tokarski, a 4th, 2 5th, a 6th and a 7th pick. In 5 years, that's not too bad, and that's excluding all their good moves.