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NHL Off-Season 2016 |OT| My prospects are better than yours
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Lone_Prodigy
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I forgot about Rodin, and Larsen too. Hmm. Suddenly it's looking crowded.
I wonder if Benning will go full rebuild by trading Hansen (between him and Dorsett, go with the one with more trade value) and even Edler (great contract, will be too old when the team is competitive again, best return). Then they could afford a couple FA's and even re-sign Hamhuis.
Sedin-Sedin-Rodin
Top 10 pick-Sutter-FA
Baertschi-Horvat-Virtanen
Gaunce-Granlund-Dorsett
McCann
Hutton-Tanev
Hamhuis-Sbisa
Tryamkin-Larsen
Biega
I wonder if Benning will go full rebuild by trading Hansen (between him and Dorsett, go with the one with more trade value) and even Edler (great contract, will be too old when the team is competitive again, best return). Then they could afford a couple FA's and even re-sign Hamhuis.
Sedin-Sedin-Rodin
Top 10 pick-Sutter-FA
Baertschi-Horvat-Virtanen
Gaunce-Granlund-Dorsett
McCann
Hutton-Tanev
Hamhuis-Sbisa
Tryamkin-Larsen
Biega
Well he's good but yea him playing so much with Dvorak and Marner makes me weary.
I think if he Leafs end up in that range they might take one of the 3 defencemen.
Kevin McGran hinted today in his article that when the leafs don't get a top 3 pick that they will go after Tkachuk. It's hard to predict who they will pick but its fun to speculate anyway:
Like most people, the number of his points that come from secondary assists from playing with Marner and Dvorak scare me away from him. I just pray to the hockey gods that Hunter, Dubas, and the scouting staff are aware of this fact.
.....and it's not like he is some giant monster winger either. He's not small but not that big either, pretty average height (6 foot 1).
Like most people, the number of his points that come from secondary assists from playing with Marner and Dvorak scare me away from him. I just pray to the hockey gods that Hunter, Dubas, and the scouting staff are aware of this fact.
.....and it's not like he is some giant monster winger either. He's not small but not that big either, pretty average height (6 foot 1).
Is Chychrun not universally the best dman in the draft? I don't even know who the other two would be.
I feel like he's just saying that because he's a London Knight lol
really though Tkachuk would be a fine pick, he's really good. There's just a few red flags like you mentioned. But when you watch him he looks impressive, definitely not like a guy who's being carried.
That said, IMO, a 4th pick will go one of two ways. Leafs will probably try to trade down because that's their thing now, and there's no standout player at 4th. Of course you need to find a trade partner with a desirable pick which isn't easy. If that doesn't work, then I think Babcock will get his way this time and they'll take Chychrun, since they didn't take Hanifin last year.
Chychrun, Juolevi, Sergachyov are all kind of on the same tier.
Bobby Mac even said last week or the week before that some scouts now have Juolevi as the #1 D in the draft.
Tbh at 7th or 8th overall I'd be a lot more comfortable with Tkachuk if he is on the board then (which is possible if defence starved teams take the few top D off the board early)
To me he just seems like he could be a JVR type winger, although a bit shorter than JVR. A good top six winger who is good for like 50-55 points a season, but not a legit franchise winger or anything.
This is a really tough draft for me. Two years ago I wanted Nylander or Ehlers at 8th, last year I wanted Marner at 4th. This year I don't really know who I want in the 4 to 9 range.
Not anymore, even Sergachev has been mentioned as the 1st D to go this draft
I'm sure they're aware, don't think we had that much info on who the Leafs were really targeting at #4 last year either.
FUBAR McDangles
Member
Last year all we had was Jeff Marek say that the leafs were debating between Marner and Provorov but that was about it IIRC.
Now with Lou as GM for this draft I wouldn't be shocked if even something like that doesn't get out from one of the insider people.
Erdrick
Member
You expected anything less?
This has been the worst season for the team since the move here but I believe that we can only move up from here. Our prospects like Kyle Connor, Connor Hellebuyck and Brendan Lemieux and other young players like Armia and Ehlers give me plenty of hope for the next season. Not happy with how Ladd's situation went out but we probably did the best that we could in that regard.
We'll see how the team fares at the end of April and during the draft. I trust Chevy and our scouting team to continue to draft some of the best talent available. Even if we draft higher than the bottom 3, look at who we've gotten when we've been higher: Scheiffele, Trouba, Morrisey, Ehlers and Connor. Pretty damn good for 11th overall and such. Not to mention Helleybuyck,
This season has been a bitter pill to swallow for many of us Jets fans, but better times await. I'm personally very excited for Nic Petan to fully make it into the NHL. He's got plenty of potential that I'm eager to see.
Picking Tkachuk might not be the end of the world, maybe an eyebrow-raiser, but the Hunter and Marner London connection might be beneficial.
Would not mind Ass Ny if we end up drafting out of the top 3.
If you believe his nonsense about how fighting was somehow more pure back in the day, sure. There's a lot of self-serving revisionist history in his comments, but at least he's more open to looking at what can be done to reduce concussions versus some of the fossils at the head office.
Honestly, the stuff on twitter made it sound like Bettman was personally smacking guys in the forehead with a hammer for kicks but his emails were pretty sane and unremarkable if obviously lawyer-y. I just didn't see his "the night is still young" comment as being that controversial, I guess if people are looking for a reason to take offense they could say it's in bad taste, but even that's a stretch.
Any french guys available?
Dubois or that other quebecois available, is that even a real question?
Habs will draft Dubois or Julien Gauthier
I really fooled myself into half-expecting a top 3 pick and now the likelihood of a 5-7 overall is extra painful.
Welcome to our world~~~~
tbf the ROW tiebreaker probably won't come into play because there are so few games left. if Leafs do end up with more ROW than the Canucks (or, more accurately, the same number of ROW, since Leafs own the 2nd tiebreaker I believe), then it's more likely we have more points than them anyway.
just gotta hope we finish with the same point total or less and we'll be ok
I was expecting some dumb ass comments from him but it seems reasonable so far.
It's an Oilers draft world. We just try and live in it.
ElephantShell
Banned
Would Laine and Puljujarvi be AHL eligible next year since they aren't coming from the CHL?
Yep. Highly likely they start there if drafted by Toronto unless they are simply dominant in training camp
ElephantShell
Banned
I'd be absolutely thrilled to get Laine. Didn't realize he was like 6'4".
Back to back Calder Cup champs!
PL Dubois is legit good and one of the youngest top players in this draft. Good chance that he is the top center in this draft after Matthews. He probably gets picked in the 4 to 9 range.
Julien Gauthier is a polarizing prospect. He is a power forward who is tall and is built like a tank but lots of questions surrounding his game. He probably gets picked in the 12 to 20 range most would say.
I really fooled myself into half-expecting a top 3 pick and now the likelihood of a 5-7 overall is extra painful.
Puljujärvi is the same height, no? What is it about Laine that has people putting him before Puljujärvi?
I think Laine is bigger overall and also has a heavier shot. They probably aren't too different tho.
I've seen Dubois discussed as a possible 4th overall pick, so I'd assume he's pretty good.
Unhandled Exception
Member
God why
That's right fuck all of you
I'm okay with this