Do we have to stop drafting/trading for high character, nice guys?
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Agent Zub
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We just need f***ing skilled hockey players.
Tuna99
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Boro needs a wing man. He goes into scrums by himself. Neil type.
Team needs more grit in their top players. Our forwards are way to soft, starting with Hoff, Ryan, Brass we need a top 6 player like Brady Tkachuk who is old school and plays the game with emotion.
Up front we have Stone and I like Pageau, Dzingel, Duch as a follow up core. But way to soft.
Team needs more grit in their top players. Our forwards are way to soft, starting with Hoff, Ryan, Brass we need a top 6 player like Brady Tkachuk who is old school and plays the game with emotion.
Up front we have Stone and I like Pageau, Dzingel, Duch as a follow up core. But way to soft.
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They need to draft players that are good at playing hockey. There needs to be an ideology change.
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we wouldn't have drafted brown or Chabot if we were believing in character guys.
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We have plenty of skilled players, in fact, that's the [problem, our skilled guys aren't playing up to the value they are paid to play. Hoffman, Duchene, Stone, Ryan, Brassard, Dzingel, Anderson & Karlsson are all skilled players who are under performing with the exception of Stone.
Isn't it a tad early to already judge what this guy is going to be before he is drafted? I can remember in many drafts people coming on here & predicting what kind of a player a certain guy is going to be & being wrong, often, me included. I'll wait to reserve judgement, he has all the makings of a top 6 player. Did you feel the same way about his brother?
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So you make a post without any specific examples or data ....nice. Chabot and Karlsson were both high skilled picks. Brown was also a high skilled pick. Zibby? Silver? Weirchioch? Are you talking about looking back and wishing we picked someone else?
tony d
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Yeah, we need to change our drafting style. Bowers, who has since been traded shouldn't have been our pick last year. I would rather we focus on talent than character as well.
If the Sens elite scouting staff has a weakness, it's their tendency to bunt on high picks for two-way leadership types who play mature games.
Cowen, Lazar, Englund, White and Bowers were all selected over players with more skill and higher upside.
I suppose one could make the argument that Silfverberg and Formenton fit this criteria as well, but at least they had an elite projectable skill (release for Silfverberg, skating for Formenton).
Given that our scouting staff has averaged 2-3 NHLers in rounds 2-7 over the past decade, it doesn't make sense to pass on a higher potential player to select a guy with lower upside who's a "safe" bet to play in the league.
Cowen, Lazar, Englund, White and Bowers were all selected over players with more skill and higher upside.
I suppose one could make the argument that Silfverberg and Formenton fit this criteria as well, but at least they had an elite projectable skill (release for Silfverberg, skating for Formenton).
Given that our scouting staff has averaged 2-3 NHLers in rounds 2-7 over the past decade, it doesn't make sense to pass on a higher potential player to select a guy with lower upside who's a "safe" bet to play in the league.
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intangibles are important, but they are a bonus to good hockey/skills that come first. Its f***ing hilarious how mark borowiecki has a multi year contract in the top level hockey league in the world. It an embarrassment.
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Dream: a young Chris Neil that could skate and score 10 goals a season on the team now
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Drafting Bowers over Tolvanen was a joke(and no not in hindsight, it was a bad pick at the time as well).
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Short answer to op question yes. We have lots of character guys, and not a single guy with a chip on his shoulder outside Borocop. We traded for that guy in Burrows after he stopped being it. I'm not a proponent of goons, but we need guys who stand up for their teamates. The first hit Boro made Yesterday was the best I've seen in 2 months. Phanuef jaws, but never to protect teamates, only on personal gripes. Smiths a shadow of his former self. I honestly think it's Boucher, he coaches them to dampen all emotion and makes them not only boring but lackluster. There's no jam in his system. And we need jammers more than anything right now. We get worked over by every team we play, despite having more counted hits. We're small, and slow, and out of shape. In other words, not an NHL team.
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But yeah it’s a little overblown in our drafting. We draft well with a fair amount of skill.
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Aside from Karlsson and Chabot do we even have a legit roster player we've drafted in the first round?
Edit I guess Ceci too
Edit I guess Ceci too
