12# Peter Bondra
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- Apr 15, 2004
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He is worth it.What do you guys think of PM Bouchard...how has he performed this year?? Is he still worthy of that high a draft position??
He is worth it.What do you guys think of PM Bouchard...how has he performed this year?? Is he still worthy of that high a draft position??
5. Higgins - for his overall play...might put less points than the others, but could win the selke...
Ward - His playoff run isn't enough for me...he may be overrated...
What do you guys think of PM Bouchard...how has he performed this year?? Is he still worthy of that high a draft position??
Jay Bouwmeester? Bouwmeester is a #1 Dman, and how people rank Higgins, Steen, Ward, Lupul and Whitney over him is beyond me. It is ridiculous how underated he is on here now. I'd take most of the guys listed above over Ward too, one playoff run can sure make a guy overated.
Can't you accept the fact that he feels strongly about Higgins and thinks he should be ranked ahead of the players he mentionned?
if that draft were done today higgins , steen and ward would go much higher .Rank the following draft picks from the 2002 entry draft. Who's higher on your list? Who's lower? Here's the list:
1 Columbus Rick Nash
2 Atlanta Kari Lehtonen
3 Florida Jay Bouwmeester
4 Philadelphia Joni Pitkanen
5 Pittsburgh Ryan Whitney
6 Nashville Scottie Upshall
7 Anaheim Joffrey Lupul
8 Minnesota Pierre-Marc Bouchard
9 Florida Petr Taticek
10 Calgary Eric Nystrom
11 Buffalo Keith Ballard
12 Washington Steve Eminger
13 Washington Alexander Semin
14 Mtl. Canadiens Chris Higgins
15 Edmonton Jesse Niinimaki
16 Ottawa Jakub Klepis
17 Washington Boyd Gordon
18 Los Angeles Denis Grebeshkov
19 Phoenix Jakub Koreis
20 Buffalo Daniel Paille
21 Chicago Anton Babchuk
22 NY Islanders Sean Bergenheim
23 Phoenix Ben Eager
24 Toronto Alexander Steen
25 Carolina Cam Ward
26 Dallas Martin Vagner
27 San Jose Mike Morris
28 Colorado Jonas Johansson
29 Boston Hannu Toivonen
30 Atlanta Jim Slater
Always the same response huh? Ya we see its a hab fan..he's happy with Higgins, but your always just waiting for a Hab fan to write something about their own players so you can jump on it...give it a rest...we all know habs fans overate their players sometimes, big deal...live with it. Don't waste your energy baiting them back..and ya I realize I've responded to a couple of your posts but its because your always jumping on Habs fans..there's a lot of them and your fighting a losing battle...Write something contructive next time instead of typing the obvious sarcastic remarks that everybody is thinking..
someone has to take the battle. i just want one of you to turn off your freakin homer switch for one post and realize that higgins is not top 5 in this draft. no way. i agrre that he is a good player and i like him a lot to. but habs fans are complaining that he is not top 5 when most guys have changed he's ranking from 14 to around 9-12. moving up 2-5 spots that high is very good and it shows that people think highly of him. i just dont understand why they have to point out their own player in every singel one of these threads. it is allowed to give credit to other players to. adn they never ever do. its all about the habs every time and people are getting tired of it. people are probably getting tired of me complaining aswell, but thats fine. im just trying to get some of you to understand that the habs is not the only team with good players.
I would say you are right generally speaking. Problem is, this is not the right thread to claim this imo.
Higgins at 9 right now is safe. Because most people havent see him play this year yet... By the end of the year, he's going to be list at 5-6 on that list.
I was myself expecting him to be a 20 goals scorer, and that was after his late surge last year. He proved me 100% wrong this year.
He's getting a lot of Pk and PP time this year and WILL (i'm NOT saying "could", you can quote me all over the board if you want) score 30+ goals this season. And that's a very very defensive opinion. Which mean you are looking at a player who is in every top-12 list because of two way plays, but he will actually be an offensive force.
By the end of the year, he will be top 8 on that list, surpassing Bouchard and Lupul in most people opinion.
Mind you, it's coming from someone who have taken Lupul in his pool this year and have pass over Higgins a few time too much.
1 Carolina Cam Ward
2 Atlanta Kari Lehtonen
3 Columbus Rick Nash
4 Florida Jay Bouwmeester
4 Philadelphia Joni Pitkanen
5 Mtl. Canadiens Chris Higgins
6 Pittsburgh Ryan Whitney
7 Anaheim Joffrey Lupul
8 Buffalo Keith Ballard
9 Washington Alexander Semin
10 Minnesota Pierre-Marc Bouchard
11 Toronto Alexander Steen
12 Nashville Scottie Upshall
13 Boston Hannu Toivonen
14 Washington Steve Eminger
don't really know enough about the rest to rank them... give it a few more seasons and I think that lethonen will be #1
someone has to take the battle. i just want one of you to turn off your freakin homer switch for one post and realize that higgins is not top 5 in this draft. no way. i agrre that he is a good player and i like him a lot to. but habs fans are complaining that he is not top 5 when most guys have changed he's ranking from 14 to around 9-12. moving up 2-5 spots that high is very good and it shows that people think highly of him. i just dont understand why they have to point out their own player in every singel one of these threads. it is allowed to give credit to other players to. adn they never ever do. its all about the habs every time and people are getting tired of it. people are probably getting tired of me complaining aswell, but thats fine. im just trying to get some of you to understand that the habs is not the only team with good players.
Would Slater be worth a Top 15 pick now?
Ward over Lehtonen, Nash, Bouwmeester, Semin, Pitkanen? Hahah that makes me laugh.
i never say he cant pass them. he has a very good chanse if he keeps up he's good play. but he hasn't passed them yet. this is supposed be a list of a current ranking not the ranking in one year. if he continues to play good and play better then lupul and bouchard i will have no problems moving him up a few more spots. i hope you see my point here.
Rank the following draft picks from the 2002 entry draft. Who's higher on your list? Who's lower? Here's the list: