GDT: Draft thread Day 2 - 11AM

[1specter]

Definitely the model organization we should be emulating.

My thoughts exactly. The Coyotes who don't have an arena or even a home city at this point are the gold standard!

 

[tmlms13]

Arizona make 12 selections and nobody under 6'0 and their smallest pick is 6'0 185. SIZE, SIZE and more SIZE

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Did you see the names that were still on the board at 6 and 12?

 

[Albz]

Doing nothing to improve the team would be a bad strategy. Dubas did what other GM's do when a team is in contention. Is Brisbois a bad GM too? How many picks did he have this year?

Lmao he traded away 5 first rounders and all for useless players or to fix his mistakes lol.... other than O'Reilly, he absolutely brought nobody in to help lolll. First to dump mrazek, tmarleau, than traded our first to get foligno which didn't even play... lol that's trash assit management...

 

[al secord]

Arizona make 12 selections and nobody under 6'0 and their smallest pick is 6'0 185. SIZE, SIZE and more SIZE

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Once we emulate the Coyotes, we'll be on the right track.

 

[4thline]

Any good candidates for FA invites and potential ELC's?

 

[tmlms13]

Lmao he traded away 5 first rounders and all for useless players or to fix his mistakes lol.... other than O'Reilly, he absolutely brought nobody in to help lolll. First to dump mrazek, tmarleau, than traded our first to get foligno which didn't even play... lol that's trash assit management...

The Mrazek one was trading the 25th for 38th. He moved down 13 spots to get rid of 2 years of a 3.8m hit. That is a fine trade. I liked it at the time and still like that trade. I wish they did something like that again with Murray, especially when Cowan would have been around in the 50's

Marleau was a Lou signing and Foligno was just bad luck.

 

[Jozay]

The Mrazek one was trading the 25th for 38th. He moved down 13 spots to get rid of 2 years of a 3.8m hit. That is a fine trade. I liked it at the time and still like that trade. I wish they did something like that again with Murray, especially when Cowan would have been around in the 50's

Marleau was a Lou signing and Foligno was just bad luck.

Foligno trade was bad when it happened

 

[Fonzieleaf]

I think we tied Edmonton with the least amount of picks in the draft with 3.

 

[SprDaVE]

Any good candidates for FA invites and potential ELC's?

Dev camp is next week, so I suspect we'll know very soon who they are.

 

[REALTALK81]

If Malkin is score, than the first Leaf draft in the Tre area is disappoint.

 

[Mitch nylander]

Any good candidates for FA invites and potential ELC's?

My camp invites would include

Undrafted prospects
Tomasso De Luca
Hannes Hellberg
Arvid Bergstrom
Ty Halaburda
Jordan Tourigny
Tomas Suchanek (G)

NCAA Prospects invites
Gabriel Seger
Ben Steeves
Marek Hejduk
Kaiden Mbereko (G)

Older CHL Guys
Kocha Delic
Ruslan Gazizov
Niks Fenenko
Spencer Sova

 

[Rob Brown]

Arizona make 12 selections and nobody under 6'0 and their smallest pick is 6'0 185. SIZE, SIZE and more SIZE

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You're right, I wish we were like the Coyotes.

 

[Racer88]

You're right, I wish we were like the Coyotes.

Ya let’s do what the coyotes are doing. That’s a recipe to go straight to the top. Lol

 

[Green Snow Storm]

My camp invites would include

Undrafted prospects
Tomasso De Luca
Hannes Hellberg
Arvid Bergstrom
Ty Halaburda
Jordan Tourigny
Tomas Suchanek (G)

NCAA Prospects invites
Gabriel Seger
Ben Steeves
Marek Hejduk
Kaiden Mbereko (G)

Older CHL Guys
Kocha Delic
Ruslan Gazizov
Niks Fenenko
Spencer Sova

Definitely agree with De Luca and Halaburda.

 

[notbias]

Arizona make 12 selections and nobody under 6'0 and their smallest pick is 6'0 185. SIZE, SIZE and more SIZE

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Go to the Blackhawk's board and post this, I am sure they are upset that they took 5'9 player 1st overall.

 

[Fogelhund]

Summing up the draft.

Round 1. It’s a small guy I’ve never heard of, ranked lower than our pick, so I don’t like i

Round 5. It’s an overage guy I’ve never heard of, so it’s bad.

Round 6. It’s a big guy I’ve never heard of, and don’t know anything about, but he’s big so it’s a good pick.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Summing up the draft.

Round 1. It’s a small guy I’ve never heard of, ranked lower than our pick, so I don’t like i

Round 5. It’s an overage guy I’ve never heard of, so it’s bad.

Round 6. It’s a big guy I’ve never heard of, and don’t know anything about, but he’s big so it’s a good pick.

An apt summary

 

[LaPlante94]

Treliving comfirmed the obvious. Strong draft so nobody wanted to move picks or else we would've moved back.

 

[the Mighty Oak]

I can dislike both. I was never a fan of hiring Treliving to begin with. It was the most pathetic desperation hire I’ve ever seen.

The Hockey Gods stepped in for all us leaf fans and got rid of that disaster of a GM you use as an avtar

 

[4thline]

Treliving comfirmed the obvious. Strong draft so nobody wanted to move picks or else we would've moved back.

If the offer for 3-5 slots from 28 was at all similar to what Detroit got from 43 I don't blame him.

 

[Jmo89]

The Mrazek one was trading the 25th for 38th. He moved down 13 spots to get rid of 2 years of a 3.8m hit. That is a fine trade. I liked it at the time and still like that trade. I wish they did something like that again with Murray, especially when Cowan would have been around in the 50's

Marleau was a Lou signing and Foligno was just bad luck.

Any good Dubas did with the Mrazek trade was ruined when he traded for Murray at 4.68M cap hit for 2 years and only got a 3rd and 7th for doing it.

You can compare it against his own cap dump in Marleau where he gave up the 13th overall and a 7th for a 6th.

Also, regardless of if it was Lou (whose biggest mistakes were Marleau and not signing Nylander the summer he was eligible for an extension, no argument there,) who signed Marleau, Dubas had options. In fact, the two guys he chose to keep which required him to unload Marleau, he traded the very next year in Kapanen and Johnsson. And in Johnson's case very likely got less value.

In the end it ended up being the same result with Marleau, Kapanen, and Johnsson all being gone:

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Out: Marleau, Kapanen (Jesper Lindgren and Pontus Aberg), Johnson, 13th overall, 7th rounder

In: 15th Overall, Hallander (Evan Rodriguez and David Warsofsky), Joey Anderson, 6th rounder
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I think most of us would agree that the best assets there are the 13th and 15th overall. The net result was basically downgrading his pick and losing two valuable depth players (at the time) for nothing else impactful.

Also, Foligno was always underwhelming, and it's not bad luck when you trade for an injured player.

Dubas was horrible with his 1st rounders.

 

[LaPlante94]

My camp invites would include

Undrafted prospects
Tomasso De Luca
Hannes Hellberg
Arvid Bergstrom
Ty Halaburda
Jordan Tourigny
Tomas Suchanek (G)

NCAA Prospects invites
Gabriel Seger
Ben Steeves
Marek Hejduk
Kaiden Mbereko (G)

Older CHL Guys
Kocha Delic
Ruslan Gazizov
Niks Fenenko
Spencer Sova

I'd add in Mathew Ward. We invited him as an undrafted player last year and he went undrafted again. Smaller guy but doesn't play like it and I wouldn't mind bringing him in and possibly giving him a shot with our ECHL team or AHL team after he's done in the WHL. I'm assuming he'll go back for his overage year next season.

 

[Mess]

Definitely the model organization we should be emulating.

They were not alone Check out Detroit and all their 11 picks with only 1 sub 6'0.

Detroit is an Atlantic rival team closing in Leafs rear mirror and making many high picks to close the gap.

Buffalo also chasing the Leafs drafted with size in mind.

NHL is a copycat league and teams are bulking up.

 

[thewave]

Another really small player. The leafs need to Stop this insanity or we won't make the ahl playoffs

OHL is going to goon us.

 

[baton elevated]

Losing Amirov was a huge blow to our prospect pool.