General Wings Comments 2025-26

[lordstanley]

28 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

8 years isn’t 10.    

They’ve done a much better job of acquiring future draft assets during their stretch of ****itude than the Wings.  8 first rounders the last 3 years and they have 4 more coming in the next 2 years.  They also have 5 second rounders too.    Even a blind squirrel has to hit on a few of these.   

 

I like the trajectory of San Jose. Have missed the playoffs 7 straight years but were in the conference finals as recently as 2019 and didn't bottom out until 2024. Of course one can easily ask where they'd be without Macklin Celebrini but they sucked at the right time and won the right lottery, to complement u-24s like Will Smith, William Eklund, Collin Graf (44 Pts in 78 GPs this season from a 23 year old who went undrafted), Michael Misa (moved down 1 in lottery but still got #2 overall in 2025), Igor Chernyshov (16 PTs in 25GP this season from a 2024 early 2nd rounder), Sam Dickinson (69 GP this year from a 2024 #11 overall).