2016 NHL Draft Thread
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Brunomics
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Any rumblings from staples? When do team reps(GMs) usually arrive at the arena on draft night? That's when **** happens when guys are on the dance floor together.
Garth is lik the pretty girl. Everyone is afraid to ask her to dance.
Garth is lik the pretty girl. Everyone is afraid to ask her to dance.
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http://www.newsday.com/sports/hocke...590?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Garth is active according to league source.
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Garth is normally very active at the draft but he doesn't have many picks to play with this year. I can see him trying to offload UFAs and unwanted prospects for a couple of picks though
I don't know why everyone is afraid we will drafting Stanley, he is not the type of player garth likes he tends to go more with speed and a good first pass when drafting d-man. I could see Fabbro or if one of the other d-men fall but not stanley. I think Garth learned his lesson when drafting Reinhert.
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Mods, let this run over the 1k limit until close to draft time, in which lock this, and open the Draft Thread. Thanks!
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I agree with you, hoping for Bellows, but would be psyched for Jones, Gauthier, Kunin or Rubtsov
I don't see us keeping the pick, at the very least we trade back for a late 1st/early 2nd and another 2nd or 3rd.
That said I'd be very happy with Jones or Kunin.
Not sure if forward or dman matters....we need to get the best player we can.
If anything, we have better forward prospect (MDC, Barzal, AB, Ho-Sang) than Dman. Pulock shouldn't be considered a prospect anymore and beyond Pelech/Vande Sompel, we don't have much to be excited about...
If anything, we have better forward prospect (MDC, Barzal, AB, Ho-Sang) than Dman. Pulock shouldn't be considered a prospect anymore and beyond Pelech/Vande Sompel, we don't have much to be excited about...
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I think that "league source" is Snow telling Staple he's busy.
But seriously...How could he not be? The next week is the busiest of the year for all GMs, and Snow needs to add 3-4 legit NHL talent right now, so that's 3-4 transactions separate from even making a draft pick tonight.
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Uh...Yes we all do. But you're talking what you want for the team NEXT SEASON. If the Isles draft at #19 that player won't be playing for two years minimum, so it still makes sense to draft the BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE.
I mean if there was another Erik Karlsson on the board at #19 should we pass over him because someone like Dustin Penner is the best forward still available? I mean come on. The goal is to always have the best possible assets in your system because even if you don't use them for yourself they can always be traded.
...However they can't be traded if they aren't a good pick. Just ask the Oilers if they'd like to have their Nail Yakupov pick back from 2012.
PICK THE BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE ALWAYS. YOU SCREW IT UP WHEN YOU TRY TO DO ANYTHING ELSE.
That's what I'd be thinking ordinarily in this situation but it seems that the top of this draft is about 20 picks deep. We are on the outer edge of that range but if we stay put, it seems like we will land a quality player (granted it will be the one that drops to us). If we trade down to 25 or so, we may not be getting the same caliber of player that was otherwise available to us.
That's assuming, of course, that the Isles draft board is consistent with the conventional wisdom floating around. It probably isn't.
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I don't disagree with this logic at all, periferal. I don't. But when we have 20 defensive prospects and one RW prospect, I'm more inclined to take the RW since what we have is just so bare.
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I don't mind a defenseman. I just want BPA and not a raw player or a player with question marks
This is an excellent point after the top 5 d-man probably around pick 20 our taken there is probably no other d-men worth taking in the first. And then after pick 20 the forwards drop off also, a lot more risks in there.
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