Post-Game Talk: 2017-18 Around the League Thread | Luca Sbisa, Stanley Cup Goat

[Billy Kvcmu]

I think to be a contender, you really need like at least 2 guys that are Art Ross, Norris, Vezina level. Look at Pitts, Tampa, Nashville and former cup winners.

Flames have only 1 guy that can be at that level so to makeup for it, they need depth depth depth. So that’s why I think they need another 60pt 2nd line center to really compete.

Where can you get a 60 pts C without giving up crucial assests? Oh right, draft....

 

[Zombotron]

Or be Minnesota and enjoy a ridiculous statistical outlier from FA like Eric Staal

 

[arttk]

Where can you get a 60 pts C without giving up crucial assests? Oh right, draft....

Drop lots of $$$ on Vegas Karlsson and hope he doesn't bomb? No idea, not my problem, hope they never solve it.

 

[BerSTUzzi]

I always felt Gaudette this year looked like he was a better prospect than Donato, the Donato goes and puts up 1G 2 A in his first game. Boston is touching a lot of gold theses days.

 

[Scumbag Frank]

I always felt Gaudette this year looked like he was a better prospect than Donato, the Donato goes and puts up 1G 2 A in his first game. Boston is touching a lot of gold theses days.

They nailed that 2014 draft. Only 5 picks but they were steals

 

[CanaFan]

They nailed that 2014 draft. Only 5 picks but they were steals

It’s easier to nail the picks when you’ve got fewer to worry about. Or so I’ve heard around these parts.

 

[DL44]

SHUTOUT LUOOOOOOOO!

 

[Kryten]

SHUTOUT LUOOOOOOOO!

It is just LUUUUUUU

 

[yvrtojfk]

It is just LUUUUUUU

I don’t know why I chuckled at this.

Come on DL44!

 

[arttk]

They nailed that 2014 draft. Only 5 picks but they were steals

Funny how drafting improves the moment Benning leaves.

 

[tantalum]

Panthers three back of the devils with 3 games in hand...can they complete the second half comeback?

 

[Zombotron]

Here's where Florida was on January 23rd, lol

 

[CanaFan]

Funny how drafting improves the moment Benning leaves.

Was their last draft before Benning 2006?

 

[Zombotron]

2006, yes. Jeff Gorton kicked all kinds of ass at the draft table and then signed Chara and Savard in FA the next week before abdicating the GM post to Peter Chiarelli on July 15th. Benning was signed by Boston on July 25th, it seems

The 44-year-old Benning served as the Buffalo Sabres' director of amateur scouting before Chiarelli hired him July 25, 2006.

 

[Kryten]

Here's where Florida was on January 23rd, lol

Records since then

DET 26gp 7-15-4/18p
EDM 25gp 10-13-2/22p
FLA 25gp 17-7-1/35p
MTL 26gp 7-13-6/20p
VAN 25gp 7-15-3/17p
OTT 26gp 11-13-2/24p
BUF 25gp 11-11-3/25p
ARI 23gp 12-9-2/26p

 

[Bad Goalie]

Ariz wins

 

[arttk]

Was their last draft before Benning 2006?

It’s really an unsolved mystery that Boston scouting sucked from 2006-2014. Nobody really ever figured out why.

 

[timw33]

It’s really an unsolved mystery that Boston scouting sucked from 2006-2014. Nobody really ever figured out why.

Their 3 most successful picks over that span: Seguin (taken 2nd overall in a no brainer Tyler/Taylor 1/2) traded for character reasons for a terrible package, Hamilton (taken 9th overall) traded for character reasons for a decent package, and (LOL) Joe Colbourne.

 

[Pastor Of Muppetz]

Ariz wins

The irony of a team called the Flames,literally going down in Flames...bye bye Glen Gulutzan.

 

[CanaFan]

It’s really an unsolved mystery that Boston scouting sucked from 2006-2014. Nobody really ever figured out why.

Actually 2007-2013. Hired by Boston in July 2006 (after the draft) and left before 2014 draft.

Coincidentally (?) 2006 was an outstanding draft (Marchand, Lucic) and 2014 is looking amazing as well.

 

[Starships]

Actually 2007-2013. Hired by Boston in July 2006 (after the draft) and left before 2014 draft.

Coincidentally (?) 2006 was an outstanding draft (Marchand, Lucic) and 2014 is looking amazing as well.

Well its good thing then that buffalo had excellent drafting from 1998-2004 and most experts and fans alike consider the canucks to have done quite well in that department from around, what year was it again? 2014? Especially relative to there previous regimes ineptitude in that area.

 

[Melvin]

Well its good thing that buffalo had excellent drafting from 1998-2004 and most people consider the canucks to have done quite well in that department from around, what year was it again? 2014? Especially relative to there previous regimes ineptitude in that area.

By what standard have they done quite well? Where would you rank them in drafting since 2014 among the other 30 teams and how did you measure this?

 

[Starships]

By what standard have they done quite well? Where would you rank them in drafting since 2014 among the other 30 teams and how did you measure this?

This is my last response as I don't wish to derail a thread as most people who engage in discussions(or passive aggressive arguments more commonly)here tend to do, but to put it simply I would say when it comes to extra round draft picks hes outperformed every other team that has been going through a rebuilding process since 2014.

 

[Addison Rae]

This is my last response as I don't wish to derail a thread as most people who engage in discussions(or passive aggressive arguments more commonly)here tend to do, but to put it simply I would say when it comes to extra round draft picks hes outperformed every other team that has been going through a rebuilding process since 2014.

I’m sorry how many of his “late picks” are actually contributing to the Canucks current roster.

Oh yeah that’s right, zero.

 

[KingOfTheES]

This is my last response as I don't wish to derail a thread as most people who engage in discussions(or passive aggressive arguments more commonly)here tend to do, but to put it simply I would say when it comes to extra round draft picks hes outperformed every other team that has been going through a rebuilding process since 2014.

Nice that you made the constrained area one that isn't easy to determine. What is an 'extra round draft pick'? What teams are 'going through a rebuilding process since 2014'? Why are we limiting this to 2014? What metric are you using to determine 'outperformed'?

Post raises more questions than it answers.