The Red Wings will have to find a diamond in the rough when trying to fill the top line center spot in their re-build, or have Yzerman work some trade magic. Hopefully Hakan Andersson can pull a rabbit out of his hat. It is much harder to find the sleepers, but it’s still possible, just look to the Dallas Stars who found that elusive first line center, Wyatt Johnson, with the 23rd pick in the draft. This is outside of Yzerman’s hands, his scouts need to deliver. So far, outside their top picks, they’ve been average.

Larkin was drafted by KH at 15th. Of course, all the rating services had him going about there, he grew up and played right in our backyard, so duh. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Once the talent drain in the office surrounding KH happened, (Nil, Yzerman, etc) DRW were doomed. But hey, we got to watch him bring Sheehan, Green, Jurko, AA, etc to Edmonton and during the process SY fleeced him to get back a few draft picks. What are friends for. 😅

Still waiting for someone to compile a list of all the bad draft picks and trades made every year next to the list of good ones. Watch the scale tip as KH didn’t do any better identifying talent in the office and the cap meant the mistakes could no longer be covered with a check book.

KH signed jack campbell to a 5yr $25 million contract

new management bought out the contract

yzerman signed jack campbell to a 2-way contract a couple of months ago

hard to believe KH is in the HOF