Keep projecting that other people are acting like children, you’re over here calling people cowards over internet posts about hockey and crying about 7th round picks being traded for 7th round picks.
Yeah I’m not qualified to really evaluate the picks either. I just know what their player profiles are like and know they mostly got picked around where they were supposed to go
You feel a draft where the Bruins didn't have a first round pick going in, and then traded their 3rd round to move further down in the draft and eventually punted their 7th round into next year, as being solid
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So your take is that it was a bad draft because they traded their first for a bonafide top pairing defenseman and then traded down in the middle of the draft to pick up an extra pick in the middle of the draft? And that trading a 7th means they don’t do their homework?You feel a draft where the Bruins didn't have a first round pick going in, and then traded their 3rd round to move further down in the draft and eventually punted their 7th round into next year, as being solid
I call it pretty shaky at best, but way to early to tell. 2 picks in the top 117 and by punting away his seventh it tells me, that he just doesn't do his homework leading up to draft days or he thinks he's way smarter than he is. Why not just pick the player you have on the board with highest upside in the 7th round ? You can use the argument that it was only a 7th rounder, but at the tender page of 18 you never know who their going to turn into whether its a 4th rnd pick or a 7th round pick.
You feel a draft where the Bruins didn't have a first round pick going in, and then traded their 3rd round to move further down in the draft and eventually punted their 7th round into next year, as being solid
I call it pretty shaky at best, but way to early to tell. 2 picks in the top 117 and by punting away his seventh it tells me, that he just doesn't do his homework leading up to draft days or he thinks he's way smarter than he is. Why not just pick the player you have on the board with highest upside in the 7th round ? You can use the argument that it was only a 7th rounder, but at the tender page of 18 you never know who their going to turn into whether its a 4th rnd pick or a 7th round pick.
You feel a draft where the Bruins didn't have a first round pick going in, and then traded their 3rd round to move further down in the draft and eventually punted their 7th round into next year, as being solid
I call it pretty shaky at best, but way to early to tell. 2 picks in the top 117 and by punting away his seventh it tells me, that he just doesn't do his homework leading up to draft days or he thinks he's way smarter than he is. Why not just pick the player you have on the board with highest upside in the 7th round ? You can use the argument that it was only a 7th rounder, but at the tender page of 18 you never know who their going to turn into whether its a 4th rnd pick or a 7th round pick.
The Bruins reach and people here are upset they didn't trade down to get the guy.
From a completely objective level, was there still guys on board at that spot you would have justified taking instead of trading the pick?
No one that I would say I absolutely had to have. Most NHL teams don't have 215 players on their list. They have 70, maybe 80 guys they would rank throughout the draft based on where they were picking. It's quite possible that everyone was off their list.
Please don't throw me out Wally
With all the turmoil Russia is causing in Ukraine and Europe it will be interesting to see if NHL teams will sour on acquiring Russian players. Not the players fault but the political situation might cause contract/transfer problems.
I knew you`d be the one likeliest to have seen them all play which is why, when you write a column/assessment of a player I read knowing a) you have years of experience when assessing kids and b) you have actually seen the kid you are writing on, not the case always here as you know
