stokes84
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Jeremy Roy and Svechnikov are both amazing. Would love either.
Really hoping Jeremy Roy sticks around for our 2nd pick. Got a feeling he's going top 10 though.
Jeremy Roy and Svechnikov are both amazing. Would love either.
Yes, super early, but your point is a good one, and even better than you may think. Eichel is a freshman as we all know. I can tell you with personal authority that transitioning to college and college hockey is a big challenge in and of itself. It takes a while (times vary, but it's rarely quick) to get adjusted to everything that entails. It helps he's matriculating near to home, but only a bit. So keeping that in mind, and seeing the level he's playing at right off the bat, and against that level of competition, it's very impressive. As he further adjusts, he should get better.
Really hoping Jeremy Roy sticks around for our 2nd pick. Got a feeling he's going top 10 though.
J.Roy, Werenski or Kylington. Evethough we have more needs in wings, for some reason I want to pick one d-man with great offensive upside. Wingers can also be obtained easier other ways.
By: Bruce Arthur - Toronto Star
You know how you forget how big horses really are until you’re right next to one, and then you’re agog? When the Buffalo Sabres came to town last week, it was like that, but for bad hockey. It was a revelation. The players were upbeat in the morning, cheerfully polishing off the morning skate, and then they went out and managed 10 shots, versus taking eight penalties, against the Leafs. The Leafs! Buffalo coach Ted Nolan called it “mind-baffling,†which is not even a real expression, but works anyway.
This is the year of the tank in the National Hockey League, in theory. 17-year-old Connor McDavid has seven four-point games in 14 tries, and is on pace for about 180 points on the season. Jack Eichel, the presumptive No. 2 pick, is wooing scouts at Boston University. Franchise changers, they say. The kind of players money can’t buy.
What do you guys think about that Islanders pick? Looks like they're getting ready to crash and burn
Realistically speaking what range do you think the Islanders pick would have to be in to get Werenski? We would all love for the Isles to win the lottery but they're probably too good of a team to get such high odds and a decent chance of winning the lottery. Werenski so far I see as a kid who has number 1 LHD potential written all over for him. And currently I'm not sure we see a LHD in our system with number 1 potential like this kid has. I see Zads a great number 2 playing behind this kid if he pans out as Buffalo's Keith.
I don't know what I would even do if we won the lottery and got McDavid, I can't even make my self think about it and basically have been envisioning Eichel or Hanifin. If we actually won the lottery that would be possibly the greatest thing to ever happen to the Sabres, he is a true superstar who will put up 120-140 points a year when he stays healthy, I personally think he is going to be the best in the world in short order. I just hope the team that wins his rights realise how fortunate they are to get him. I'll be a fan even if it's not for us. Where as I view McDavid becoming generational player in the NHL no question in my mind Jack Eichel is just below that, it's crazy.
The statistics are backing up what the hockey world has started to believe.
Connor McDavid is better than Sidney Crosby was at age 17.
That's not to say the Erie Otters star will automatically go on and score massive goals in two Olympic finals or win a Stanley Cup for whatever downtrodden NHL team picks him first overall next June, the way No. 87 has in Pittsburgh.
But this kid, who is ripping apart the OHL offensively right now, is superior to the player Crosby was for the Rimouski Oceanic a decade ago.
Has anybody watched werenski this year? He looks like a realistic option with the Isles pick if they end up near the top ten to fifteen. I like what I've read but haven't seen any game footage.
Ugh. I want McDavid badly. But I know we have zero chance at getting him. Eichel better turn out to be a 100 point player too.
People really love to confuse observations with criticisms around here just to debate for no reason.