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Prospect Info: Avs draft F Calum Ritchie (2023 #27 overall)
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Congrats to Calum Ritchie for becoming the best player from the 2023 draft
Tommy Shelby
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The question I have is whether his skating will be ROR-esque, or if he'll have to transition to RW in the NHL
niwotsblessing
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Read up on him a bit, he seems like a good pick at #27, but I don't follow prospects and drafting closely so perhaps I am delusional.
Another 1st rounder that will never play a game in the NHL.
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Skating and motor are questions. Lots of tools to be a NHL player. His most likely outcome is somewhere between Dylan Strome and an AHL form of him. If he shows a motor next season and uses his frame like he can, there is a chance he elevates. He'll certainly need guys who can shoot next to him on the wing.
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It took an hour for our pick to become worthless.
f***ing hell, I knew it. This organization is hopeless.
He's gonna be the very first late-1st success story the Avs have drafted in this era, mark my words.
(If he's not traded first)
(If he's not traded first)
Bone Breaker
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I dont like our track record when it comes to late first rounders and centers. but lets be hopeful. at least now we have some prospect with real nhl upside in the system, according to Pronman. lol
I don't love this pick, but don't hate it. It's just kind of...boring. Wanted Edstrom.
I don't either which is why until proven otherwise I expect every one of them to not become roster players for the Avs and just be traded away.
Seems like good upside for a guy at 27. Just not thrilled with the asset management.
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Agree totally. If Ritchie takes a step, he has more raw talent than Edstrom... just a much lower floor.
GirardSpinorama
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I just like the fact that:
1. It's not completely off the board like hishon
2. It's not a small center like jost, hishon, Breackley, newhook
3. It's not a bchler like newhook and Jost
1. It's not completely off the board like hishon
2. It's not a small center like jost, hishon, Breackley, newhook
3. It's not a bchler like newhook and Jost
95snipes
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Edstrom is a more boring pick than Ritchie IMO. Ritchie is more offensively talented just has more question marks where Edstrom is a near lock NHL center but high floor lower ceiling.
See, I think Edstrom has more talent than is led on. He got better and better as the year went on. I also think he's around the puck a lot more than Ritchie, and a better skater.
This is why you trade Ritchie before other teams catch on.
Rumplesnipeskin
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I like having the kid in the organization, will give us more skill in the pool.
Would have been nice to trade the pick, but no one really “fell” too far, at least inasmuch as was relevant to our picks, so I doubt the pick-trade market developed favourably as the round went on.
Would have been nice to trade the pick, but no one really “fell” too far, at least inasmuch as was relevant to our picks, so I doubt the pick-trade market developed favourably as the round went on.
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I'm not disagreeing, but it seems like high upside/low floor is anything but boring...
95snipes
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Definitely the better skater. No debate there.
I like both players and would have been fine with either, but if your shooting for upside, I like Ritchie better. He has more skill imo.
Randomly enough on my list I had Gulyayev 20, Ritchie 21, and Edstrom 22.
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