2014 NHL Draft Discussion: Part I

[Sidney the Kidney]

2013-14 OHL Coaches Poll Winners

Sam Bennett finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Smartest Player, Best Playmaker, and Best Stickhandler categories, as well as finishing 3rd in Best Defensive Forward.

Aaron Ekblad finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Best Offensive Defenseman and Best Defensive Defenseman, Best Shot and Hardest Shot, and 2nd in Best Penalty Killer.

 

[Strome18]

2013-14 OHL Coaches Poll Winners

Sam Bennett finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Smartest Player, Best Playmaker, and Best Stickhandler categories, as well as finishing 3rd in Best Defensive Forward.

Aaron Ekblad finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Best Offensive Defenseman and Best Defensive Defenseman, Best Shot and Hardest Shot, and 2nd in Best Penalty Killer.

Did Crapuano have a vote?

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Did Crapuano have a vote?

I might be missing the joke, but that's OHL Eastern Conference, not NHL.

 

[Strome18]

I might be missing the joke, but that's OHL Eastern Conference, not NHL.

Referencing our coach as OHL material

Thanks STK.

 

[MattMartin]

Referencing our coach as OHL material

Thanks STK.

OHL? More like NOHL (No Hockey League)

 

[Levi Walking Bear]

Bob McKenzie talked a lot what the Islanders could do with the draft pick this year on TSN 1050 yesterday. If you want to listen to it, the interview was just posted on


www.islanderspointblank.com

 

[bluechipbonzo]

Toggle down to page five on that tsn radio link for bob mac on the isles...will be page 6 or 8 etc by friday

 

[OhNoItsComeau57]

Drex, any idea which podcast this is in? None of the descriptions reference Bobby Mc

 

[doublechili]

2013-14 OHL Coaches Poll Winners

Sam Bennett finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Smartest Player, Best Playmaker, and Best Stickhandler categories, as well as finishing 3rd in Best Defensive Forward.

Aaron Ekblad finished 1st in the Eastern Conference's Best Offensive Defenseman and Best Defensive Defenseman, Best Shot and Hardest Shot, and 2nd in Best Penalty Killer.

Very impressive results for players in their draft years (beating out drafted players). I especially like that they both do well in offensive and defensive voting.

When I think of NHL players that I'd love to have on my team, Toews is very near the top of the list. It seems that Bennett has a similar type of game (obviously not saying he's Toews, yada yada).

 

[nyiguy21]

Drex, any idea which podcast this is in? None of the descriptions reference Bobby Mc

Use this link

http://www2.tsn.ca/window/podcastcentre/#Bob_McKenzie_NHL_Insider_Podcasts&id=5

March 19 podcast.

 

[Levi Walking Bear]

Drex, any idea which podcast this is in? None of the descriptions reference Bobby Mc

Just go to pointblank, click on TSN's Bob McKenzie was on TSN Drive Time.

 

[Barzilla]

So hypothetically, if we win the lottery. Who would you guys want to draft first overall? Reinhart or ekblad?

 

[scott99]

So hypothetically, if we win the lottery. Who would you guys want to draft first overall? Reinhart or ekblad?

Can't lose either way, but I think the Poll on the top of the page show's how close our board feels about those 2. My preference is Ekblad, I think he is a rare talent. Reinhart is a helluva prospect as well, one draft site said he compares to Nugent-Hopkins as far as his skating and passing. I also am a huge fan of Bennett. So I hope we pick in the top 3, and don't go off of the board.

I got the Hockey News Future Watch last night, and oddly enough, they rank Draisatl #1 ! Followed by Ekblad, Bennett, and Reinhart #4 ! Interesting ranking.

 

[OhNoItsComeau57]

Use this link

http://www2.tsn.ca/window/podcastcentre/#Bob_McKenzie_NHL_Insider_Podcasts&id=5

March 19 podcast.

Ahh, thank you! The IPB article says Thursday so I was only looking at the segments for 3/20. Thanks!

 

[OhNoItsComeau57]

Can't lose either way, but I think the Poll on the top of the page show's how close our board feels about those 2. My preference is Ekblad, I think he is a rare talent. Reinhart is a helluva prospect as well, one draft site said he compares to Nugent-Hopkins as far as his skating and passing. I also am a huge fan of Bennett. So I hope we pick in the top 3, and don't go off of the board.

I got the Hockey News Future Watch last night, and oddly enough, they rank Draisatl #1 ! Followed by Ekblad, Bennett, and Reinhart #4 ! Interesting ranking.

Yea, got mine the other day and was surprised as well. As we are mostly guaranteed a top 5 pick at this point I think we will get a good prospect no matter if it is Reinhart, Bennett, Ekblad, Dal Colle or the Deutschland Dangler.

 

[bigd]

I don't care how good our defensive prospects are you take the BPA and I think that's Ekblad. You can never have enough big D-men in your system and he's a right shot to boot!

 

[A Pointed Stick]

Where would the top three or 4 this year fall in next year's draft? Somewhere between 5-10?

 

[bluechipbonzo]

Where would the top three or 4 this year fall in next year's draft? Somewhere between 5-10?

The only thing you can say definitively is that the top five picks would get bumped up to be picks three through seven.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Where would the top three or 4 this year fall in next year's draft? Somewhere between 5-10?

The only two who would likely bump this year's top players down the rankings are Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel. After that, there's no real evidence that the players projected from #3 and beyond are superior to this year's top guys. They could end up being, obviously, but the only two who thus far project to being superior to this year's is the two at the top of the draft.

This is why I think this year's draft is being underrated. It's gotten to the point where people are believing that the top guys this year would have a hard time even cracking next year's top-10, which simply isn't the case. Next year's draft's advantage over this year's primarily boils down to McDavid and Eichel.

 

[bluechipbonzo]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[islandermaniac]

The only two who would likely bump this year's top players down the rankings are Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel. After that, there's no real evidence that the players projected from #3 and beyond are superior to this year's top guys. They could end up being, obviously, but the only two who thus far project to being superior to this year's is the two at the top of the draft.

This is why I think this year's draft is being underrated. It's gotten to the point where people are believing that the top guys this year would have a hard time even cracking next year's top-10, which simply isn't the case. Next year's draft's advantage over this year's primarily boils down to McDavid and Eichel.

i think people should also pay attention to that fact that a guy like eichel is only 4 months younger than a guy like bennett. if bennett was to be drafted next year, he would have yet another monster season under his belt and i am not convinced that he couldn't give eichel a run for his money. alas, bennett was born in june and eichel in october, so i guess we'll never know.

 

[nyisles]

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