Persson. His early season resurrection can not be overlooked. There is still a possibility he can turn it around, though remote, and fulfill on what scouts saw in him to make him a first round pick.
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Persson. His early season resurrection can not be overlooked. There is still a possibility he can turn it around, though remote, and fulfill on what scouts saw in him to make him a first round pick.
Gotta agree here, but it looks like logic has lost this one.
Persson has shown some hope of being what we hoped he would be when drafted. Hopefully he'll sign for another year in Portland and he can progress even more. I'll go with him.
Gotta agree here, but it looks like logic has lost this one.
Add Adams.
Edit: Woohoo, tied now!
Much like Schiestel's status, being unable to play due to injury is going to keep him out of sight and out of mind. The early season play was a revelation -- and coming from me, an avowed "hater", is about as high praise as I can offer.
Granted, if the team thinks his injury bug is chronic or that they have enough D of a similar mold, they may simply let him go back to Europe this summer. He and Turnbull would be the guys who look to be on the bubble as possible non-tenders from the RFA crop.
Wow, Perssons draft-position still seems to help him quite a bit .
Considering the choices here though, is it really that much of an assist? He started the year well -- 7 points and a +8 through the first fourteen games, then he missed two or three games in mid-November and he's only put up 5 points and a -3 since, in and out of the lineup dinged at times seeming ever since.
I'm not a Persson defender -- I think my direct quote after watching him last year was "he's dead to me" as a prospect -- but there might be enough there to warrant being at the tail end of the list vice a number of late-round or AHL projects.
Considering the choices here though, is it really that much of an assist? He started the year well -- 7 points and a +8 through the first fourteen games, then he missed two or three games in mid-November and he's only put up 5 points and a -3 since, in and out of the lineup dinged at times seeming ever since.
I'm not a Persson defender -- I think my direct quote after watching him last year was "he's dead to me" as a prospect -- but there might be enough there to warrant being at the tail end of the list vice a number of late-round or AHL projects.
Sure, there isn't much left after the top-15, Isackson is the only one i would clearly rank above the rest of the choices right now. But in my eyes, Persson didn't have a resurrection at the beginning of the season, he just had a 15 to 20 game span where he wasn't terrible . He is older and more experienced than most of his teammates on defense and still gets beaten regularly in the fight for the roster spot, didn't really show a lot of progress in the last 4-5 years AND plays at a position where we have very solid depth. I'd take pretty much every unlikely project (Isackson, Henley, Shipley...) ahead of him right now.
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. He is older and more experienced than most of his teammates on defense and still gets beaten regularly in the fight for the roster spot, didn't really show a lot of progress in the last 4-5 years AND plays at a position where we have very solid depth. I'd take pretty much every unlikely project (Isackson, Henley, Shipley...) ahead of him right now.
