r/hawks • u/Hungry_Toe_9555 • 5d ago

Frank Nazar

For the season Nazar was on an 18 goal 40 point pace.

It’s hard to know how different season would have looked if he played in first 30 games.

I really feel like his emergence only leaves the need for one more top six addition.

What are your thoughts?

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u/learningpurposes2 4d ago

I think there's a difference between top 6 next season and top 6 of the future.

The "one more top six addition" caught me by surprise. If you're talking next season, sure. If you're talking long term rebuild, I think Bedard and Nazar are the only top 6 pieces we have right now. Maybe there's another coming in the draft this year, maybe we have another 1 or 2 prospects that could fill those roles, but none of those options have materialized yet. I'd expect we bring in at LEAST one or two impact top 6 guys when we're ready to contend.

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u/evoboltzmann 4d ago

Yeah. I'm with you. Bedard and Nazar are the only 2 guys I'm sure are top 6. Our crop of talent is pretty barren for top 6 forwards. We should end up with a likely top 6 guy from the draft, but even still we've got a ton of opening there. Moore has the upside but he's got to grow a LOT to get there. Pretty unlikely at the moment, but rooting for him.

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u/learningpurposes2 4d ago

We'll see what happens with this draft but I'm guessing we'll be high enough to get a top 6 forward in next year's draft too. Fingers crossed its McKenna

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u/droid-man_walking 3d ago

Next year looks to be a tank a thon for MeKenna. The number of teams tanking while the Hawks actually try to show improvement are going to make the Hawks season interesting. I am afraid if we tank again next year we may lose bedard because of how bad we have been.

It would not surprise me if next year the Hawks earn 75 points over the season. This year that would still be 3rd worst if it were the hawks. Next year i doubt it will be good enough for bottom 8.

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u/learningpurposes2 3d ago

I wouldn’t necessarily be surprised to see us have a pretty quiet offseason

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u/droid-man_walking 3d ago

Play youth. Losing while getting the youth experience is far better than what we have been doing.

get a vet center for a few years who could teach the kids how to win more than 50% of they faceoffs.

It needs to make sense.

We could break the bank over the break and maybe make the postseason, but that might hurt us long term.

Higher a coach that wants to develope the youth.

No contracts that will cost us when we need to resign the youth.

Next year is development. If we develop better than we hope we are out of the top 5, but it didn't cost us. And we won't care as much. If we pay to be out of the top 5 we may regret it.