Draft Pick Push

[BelovedIsles]

These threads depress me every year

And annoy me.

So many years of this f***ing shit.

The other piece, if snow and co. are making the picks I don’t have much faith.

 

[doublechili]

Carolina is 5 pts behind them with 2 games in hand. Rangers 8 with 2 games in hand.

I guess we're big Canes and Rags fans for the time being... though I'm more than fine with two lottery picks at all

*and fine, I don't mean I'm happy the Islanders suck. I'm fine given the circumstances that the Islanders suck. I know I'd be called out on it if I didn't clarify LOL

Yeah, Carolina absolutely can catch Calgary. Doubtful NYR catch them, but not impossible.

 

[doublechili]

Panthers came back to beat Arizona, Blues won too. Edmonton wins and we catch every break possible tank-wise.

Tonight was the Tankapalooza baby!!!

 

[SI90]

Edm leading 3-2 headed to the 3rd on the PP.

Come on McDavid,take us home!!

 

[boredmale]

Edm leading 3-2 headed to the 3rd on the PP.

Come on McDavid,take us home!!

Wooohoooo, We're #8

 

[SI90]

Edm coming through in the clutch! What a night

 

[BTrotts19]

Edm coming through in the clutch! What a night

We keep taking care of our business and hopefully the ping pong balls cooperate

 

[boredmale]

Edm coming through in the clutch! What a night

Only thing that could have made it better is if we scored a meaningless goal with 1 second left. lol

 

[SI90]

Only thing that could have made it better is if we scored a meaningless goal with 1 second left. lol

I’m shocked we didn’t. Lol

 

[boredmale]

I’m shocked we didn’t. Lol

I was watching the final minute of the game and was like don't score, don't score, don't score, oh wait their is 10 seconds left please score now

 

[SI90]

I was watching the final minute of the game and was like don't score, don't score, don't score, oh wait their is 10 seconds left please score now

Haha

 

[SI90]

All I can say is thank the hockey gods for Peter Chiarelli. McDavid is a monster. Barzal with McDavid would have been absolutely ridiculous and unfair.

 

[Tres Peleches]

Theoretically, we could finish with the third highest odds to win first overall... though a lot of things need to happen for that

 

[boredmale]

Haha

I want to see Brock hit 20 so we can try dump him in the summer and although it's just a number saying he is a 4 time 20 goal scorer I do think makes him that much more marketable then a 3 time 20 goal scorer with 19 this year

 

[SI90]

I want to see Brock hit 20 so we can try dump him in the summer and although it's just a number saying he is a 4 time 20 goal scorer I do think makes him that much more marketable then a 3 time 20 goal scorer with 19 this year

Agree 100%

 

[periferal]

Edm coming through in the clutch! What a night

This is our lives now.

 

[periferal]

Only thing that could have made it better is if we scored a meaningless goal with 1 second left. lol

Well we only played "well" tonight - Not "great."

 

[periferal]

All I can say is thank the hockey gods for Peter Chiarelli. McDavid is a monster. Barzal with McDavid would have been absolutely ridiculous and unfair.

Barzal with Tavares should be "ridiculous and unfair." Unfortunately there's more than one GM who can mess up a team even with elite talent.

 

[MattMartin]

What a great night for the tank. The best loss we had since that game VS Buffalo a few years back that let us play Florida in round 1.
OP updated!

 

[MattMartin]

Theoretically, we could finish with the third highest odds to win first overall... though a lot of things need to happen for that

Right now we have a little better odds then Detroit at finishing at 2 or 3 with the same odds as 1oa who is at 5.

TEAM	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Buffalo	18.0	16.0	14.1	51.9
Arizona	12.5	12.1	11.6	33.7	30.1
Vancouver	10.5	10.4	10.3	12.2	39.1	17.6
Ottawa	9.5	9.5	9.6	2.3	23.8	35.5	9.9
Detroit	8.5	8.6	8.8		7.0	32.8	28.9	5.3
Montreal	7.6	7.8	8.0			14.1	38.2	21.6	2.7
Chicago	6.7	7.0	7.2				23.1	39.7	15.0	1.3
NY Islanders	5.8	6.1	6.4					33.3	38.1	9.7	0.6
Edmonton	5.4	5.7	6.0						44.1	33.0	5.5	0.2
NY Rangers	4.5	4.8	5.1							55.9	26.8	2.8	0.1
Carolina	3.3	3.6	3.8								67.1	20.8	1.3	0.0
Calgary	2.7	2.9	3.2									76.2	14.5	0.5	0.0
Dallas	2.2	2.4	2.6										84.1	8.6	0.1
Florida	1.8	2.0	2.2											90.9	3.2
Los Angeles	1.0	1.1	1.2												96.7

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Right now totals are....


8.5% at 1st
9.0% for 2nd
9.6% for 3rd

It's so weird that Buffalo is only 50/50 to pick in the top 3

 

[MattMartin]

I put the remaining schedules for all the teams of importance in the 2nd post

 

[CupHolders]

Uwe Krupp...Scott Scissions...Jaromir Jagr

You’re messing with me right? Did you really just miss the central point of my post?

You do understand that I’m not calling for or expecting the Isles to make the playoffs? And you do know that It’s a lottery?

With this particular format you can actually end up with a worse pick by finishing lower. It’s not like Buffalo when they had the worst record in the McDavid draft and we’re guaranteed Eichel at minimum.

Backstory on Jagr draft: Recent report is that he would only come over if he could play with Lemieux. Also, problem was not missing Jagr, as much as not identifying and hitting on hall-of-fame talent still available... Brodeur, Tkachuck, Hatcher etc.

 

[PWJunior]

Saturday night important games:

Will update

Calgary at San Jose San Jose Won Good News,
Buffalo at NY Rangers
Carolina at Ottawa
Los Angeles at Edmonton
Arizona at Florida
St. Louis at Columbus

It's pretty insane that nailed everything and all the games were in regulation too. It's funny that I assume you wanted Buffalo to get a point though, haha.

 

[Lame Lambert]

You’re all fake fans and Eberle ruined Barzal

 

[boredmale]

Backstory on Jagr draft: Recent report is that he would only come over if he could play with Lemieux. Also, problem was not missing Jagr, as much as not identifying and hitting on hall-of-fame talent still available... Brodeur, Tkachuck, Hatcher etc.

1. You can't blame a team who picks 6 for not picking guys who are picked like 17th and 18th in the draft, Hatcher would be fair game.

2. Scissons pick I think gets wrongly panned. Simple fact is it was a case more of bad luck given Scissons injury troubles