Listing every 4th rounder who has done anything in the league doesn't move the needle for me. It just doesn't
How many 4th rounders % make the league?
Hint it is more than 10% but less than 11%.
https://dobberprospects.com/2020/05/16/nhl-draft-pick-probabilities/
Oh, past guys have traded more assets for guys drafted in the 4th round?
So what.
Those guys aren't making the decisions.
Those old guys still dodder around on the club level and are given office space where they've worked for most of their lives?
Again, So what.
At the end of the day Danny is the guy making the decisions.
The team is in a position to make the playoffs, the GM trades one of the top 2 defensemen on the team, and goes bargain shopping for a player to help with depth because in the 2 weeks before the TDL- 3 defensemen hit the IR.
These decisions aren't made in a vacuum, they're made in the messy real world by humans, the decisions affect other humans and not bytes of information. Danny is sending a message with the Johnson deal. I don't think he is only sending a message to this room, he's sending it to other guys that the Flyers may target via trade or free agency.
Still, people lose their goddammed minds - because, because there is an 11% chance that the asset used may become an NHL player in 5 years? wtf am I missing?
There is an 89% chance that guy becomes Wade Allison instead of Kris Versteeg. And Wade Allison is one of the better examples for the 11% argument, he got a sniff at the NHL- do we want him taking a roster spot?
Icing a defense of Andrae, Ginning Attard, Staal, York and Sanhiem for the remainder of the season has a better than 11% probability of alienating guys like Forester, Tippett, Farabee, Cates, Drysdale and Poehling.
Guys that are pretty good and fit a timeline for Michkov's arrival.