Favorite defenseman projected to go between picks 5-14

[Star Platinum]

Poll assumes Levshunov goes somewhere in the first four

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[DG93]

Every one of those has question marks, but I'd go with Buium

 

[dmcccdmn]

Is this Sharks board the only fan base high on Zeev? The experts don't list him very high, so I wonder how he ranks for other fanbases.

 

[timorous me]

I DON'T KNOW YET AND I THINK SOLBERG SHOULD BE ON THE LIST TOO!

#NotHotTake

Is this Sharks board the only fan base high on Zeev? The experts don't list him very high, so I wonder how he ranks for other fanbases.

I think fans in general are higher on him than prospect evaluators. Maybe they're slow to adapt or we're just reacting to his Frozen Four too strongly.

 

[sharks_dynasty]

Not sure about the rest of you, but I really like the name Zeev Buium!

 

[Desert Eagle]

Parekh or Buium - both would be a great pick for us.
Voted for Zayne just because he is RHD.

 

[Great Makohead Shork]

I have Zeev 2OA on my board, so him

 

[Sendhelplease]

My heart says Zeev but the brain goes for Silayev. Zeev seems like a lot of fun but it is so easy to see a scenario where Zeev is unable to be an elite defensemen while with Silayev I'd be surprised if he didn't become a shutdown defensemen.

 

[Shark Finn]

Now exclude Buium.

 

[WSS11]

Silayev

 

[Hodge]

Silayev

Not sure why he’s even included in the poll tbh. Everything I’ve seen suggests he is definitely going top 4.

 

[Gecklund]

Parekh has the highest potential of Dmen in this draft and is absolutely the most fun. He’s by far my favorite Dman of the draft. He’s in my top 5 players.

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Buium or Pakreh

 

[WSS11]

Not sure why he’s even included in the poll tbh. Everything I’ve seen suggests he is definitely going top 4.

Highest floor for sure imo

 

[Stewie Griffin]

Silayev is not a flashy pick but he's the safest bet to be a lockdown top-6 defensive dman who covers half the ice himself. That's worst case too...if he fills out that 6'7 frame and can develop some offense he's a heavy hitting victor hedman. Basically Chara.

 

[Hodge]

Silayev is not a flashy pick but he's the safest bet to be a lockdown top-6 defensive dman who covers half the ice himself. That's worst case too...if he fills out that 6'7 frame and can develop some offense he's a heavy hitting victor hedman. Basically Chara.

I was ready to lobby hard for him at 2nd overall.

 

[Stewie Griffin]

I was ready to lobby hard for him at 2nd overall.

He's not scoring like Buium and Parekh but he's playing regular minutes as a 17 year old in the KHL. A lot of people don't want their teams to draft him cause he's not flashy but he is what every single team and GM in the NHL want. A big defenseman who skates well.

 

[CupfortheSharks]

Defense wins championships. I haven’t watched enough of any of these defenseman to vote in this poll but I sure hope we stick to picking defenseman who are committed to actually playing defense.

 

[Star Platinum]

Not sure why he’s even included in the poll tbh. Everything I’ve seen suggests he is definitely going top 4.

You caught me. I put zero thought into why I included the names I put on the list. I didn't look at any prospect rankings, mock drafts, or take into account other discussions on the forum.

I put Silayev there just to annoy you.

 

[Star Platinum]

Defense wins championships. I haven’t watched enough of any of these defenseman to vote in this poll but I sure hope we stick to picking defenseman who are committed to actually playing defense.

Silayev is almost certainly the best pure defender of all the top defense prospects, plus he's huge. He fits the prototype of an NHL top defensive defensemen. The others (in this poll at least) are varying levels of offense combined with at least one thing (if not more) that would give a GM pause in projecting them as defenders.

But he's very unlikely to fall very far past the #4 pick and may even be taken as high as #2. The only reason he's a wild card for this draft is that as highly regarded as he is, he's been all over the map in mocks because people really like to go for guys that look like they have a chance to be #1 offensive d-men and he's not that.

 

[Barrie22]

Not sure why he’s even included in the poll tbh. Everything I’ve seen suggests he is definitely going top 4.

Thought the post you qouted said Parekh not silayev, got confused after reading the rankings lol

 

[Hodge]

Out of the 12 prospect rankings on eliteprospects, only 2 have him in the top 5, and 6 in the top 10.

One of the best and usually most spot on in this regards for where players actually get picked has him 9th.

So the whole why is he even a question out of the top 5, is actually based on real projections, not just your overly loud thoughts on every subject.

He’s 3rd on McKenzie’s latest list which is a poll of actual NHL scouts who will be deciding on the picks in real life. Not some internet scout power ranking.

 

[Barrie22]

He’s 3rd on McKenzie’s latest list which is a poll of actual NHL scouts who will be deciding on the picks in real life. Not some internet scout power ranking.

Yeah McKenzie is the one I look to, but post was edited as I read someone else in your qouted.

 

[Stewie Griffin]

The only 2 prospect rankings that have barely any merit at all are Mckenzie and Pronman. Pronman is to a wayyyy lesser extent, but they are the 2 analysts that actually use NHL-team sources to base their rankings. Pronman uses his own preference as a slight influence, where as Mckenzie is purely NHL scouts.

Any other rankings is internet scouts personal preferences. If you want to try and guess/mock how draft day looks, these are the 2 rankings to look at.

 

[sharski]

i think Silayev is going top 3, so if he somehow dropped to 5 that'd definitely be my pick