GDT: 2019 NHL Draft Day 2: 1:00 EST

[StevenToddIves]

@StevenToddIves where are your rankings for the 2020 draft? don’t get lazy now

Oh, I despise you for this.

 

[StevenToddIves]

Gut reaction. I think Vegas, Carolina, and us had really high quality drafts.

Colorado, Los Angeles, the Rangers were also winners in my book.

Big losers were Columbus, Calgary, the Isles. Edmonton saved themselves with Lavoie in the second, but the rest of their draft was downright atrocious.

 

[Brodeur]

Thought I was in a hurry to leave, but already ran into Colorado and Arizona staffs at the airport.

 

[StevenToddIves]

rangers as well, detroit/colorado. vegas killed it

having said that, i don’t know of another team that improved as much as we did this weekend all things considered

Devils were the runaway winners of draft weekend.

 

[StevenToddIves]

Gut reaction. I think Vegas, Carolina, and us had really high quality drafts.

Arizona also screwed the pooch a bit. Trading up and giving up the #45 pick (who turned out to be a high-caliber prospect in Afanaseyev) to move up three spots and take Soderstrom -- the Flyers traded down and got a defenseman who is just as good in Cam York in a similar style of game. It's really time for John Chayka to be on the hot seat in Arizona -- he's had chance after chance to fail.

 

[The 29th Pick]

11 picks!

 

[thethinglonger]

2020 Top 30:
1) Alexis Lafreniere
2) Noel Gunler
3) Quinton Byfield
4) Anton Lundell
5) Lucas Raymond
6) Marco Rossi
7) Alexander Holtz
8) Yaroslav Askarov
9) Jamie Drysdale
10) Kasper Simontaival
11) Cole Perfetti
12) Jan Mysak
13) Hendrix Lapierre
14) Justin Barron
15) Zion Nybeck
16) Roni Hirvonen
17) Connor McClennon
18) Jacob Perreault
19) Ryder Rolston
20) Ty Smilanic
21) Dylan Holloway
22) Antonio Stranges
23) Jeremie Poirier
24) Daniil Gushchin
25) Thomas Bordeleau
26) Sean Farrell
27) Michael Benning
28) Helge Grans
29) Vasili Ponomaryov
30) Mavrik Bourque

 

[glenwo2]

2020 Top 30:
1) Alexis Lafreniere
2) Noel Gunler
3) Quinton Byfield
4) Anton Lundell
5) Lucas Raymond
6) Marco Rossi
7) Alexander Holtz
8) Yaroslav Askarov
9) Jamie Drysdale
10) Kasper Simontaival
11) Cole Perfetti
12) Jan Mysak
13) Hendrix Lapierre
14) Justin Barron
15) Zion Nybeck
16) Roni Hirvonen
17) Connor McClennon
18) Jacob Perreault
19) Ryder Rolston
20) Ty Smilanic
21) Dylan Holloway
22) Antonio Stranges
23) Jeremie Poirier
24) Daniil Gushchin
25) Thomas Bordeleau
26) Sean Farrell
27) Michael Benning
28) Helge Grans
29) Vasili Ponomaryov
30) Mavrik Bourque

Forgive me but I pray we DON'T end up with a Top 15 - 20 pick(or better) next season.

I want some Playoff Hockey again.

 

[njdevils1982]

Thought I was in a hurry to leave, but already ran into Colorado and Arizona staffs at the airport.

please tell me one was sakic

 

[Brodeur]

Didn't see sakic, but saw Bob Murray, Todd McLellan, and John Chayka. About to take off to Seattle and Chris Terreri is randomly on my flight.

 

[Emperoreddy]

 

[Nubmer6]

BE AFRAID.

BE VERY AFRAID.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

2020 Top 30:
1) Alexis Lafreniere
2) Noel Gunler
3) Quinton Byfield
4) Anton Lundell
5) Lucas Raymond
6) Marco Rossi
7) Alexander Holtz
8) Yaroslav Askarov
9) Jamie Drysdale
10) Kasper Simontaival
11) Cole Perfetti
12) Jan Mysak
13) Hendrix Lapierre
14) Justin Barron
15) Zion Nybeck
16) Roni Hirvonen
17) Connor McClennon
18) Jacob Perreault
19) Ryder Rolston
20) Ty Smilanic
21) Dylan Holloway
22) Antonio Stranges
23) Jeremie Poirier
24) Daniil Gushchin
25) Thomas Bordeleau
26) Sean Farrell
27) Michael Benning
28) Helge Grans
29) Vasili Ponomaryov
30) Mavrik Bourque

Calling it now, Lucas Raymond is going to be a player.

 

[glenwo2]

BE AFRAID.

BE VERY AFRAID.

Not us.

For us it will be :



BE THRILLED.

BE VERY THRILLED.

 

[JrFischer54]

What’s the honest unbiased thoughts on the isles and Lou’s draft

 

[Emperoreddy]

What’s the honest unbiased thoughts on the isles and Lou’s draft

Poor

 

[Emperoreddy]

That Miller trade sucks. Why are the Canucks giving away 1sts to help Tampa when Carolina got major assets for Marleau and we got Subban for peanuts from teams in similar cap strapped situations.

 

[NjDevsRR]

A+

 

[PizzaAndPucks]

These past 2 days were crazy ! Glad I got to watch the Hughes pick live from work. The excitement of getting Subban to our fans getting annoyed with Shero trading down twice showed how emotionally we are invested with this team lol. Glad we stocked up on D and managed to snag a few players who fell a round or two. I have a feeling McCarthy could be a steal for us.

 

[glenwo2]

These past 2 days were crazy ! Glad I got to watch the Hughes pick live from work. The excitement of getting Subban to our fans getting annoyed with Shero trading down twice showed how emotionally we are invested with this team lol. Glad we stocked up on D and managed to snag a few players who fell a round or two. I have a feeling McCarthy could be a steal for us.

Your feeling would be correct since he should've been selected far earlier than he was and Shero took a big risk in rolling the dice against the chance he'd be selected by another team.

Fortunately for him, he won that gamble.

 

[Devilswede]

What is the general consensus here on our draft? Besides Hughes and the trade for Subban.

I know nothing of Okhotyuk, Misyul, Clarke, Vukojevic etc.

I thought the trade with Sharks was bad, not good value for a high pick like that and because there were some good players available at 55 that I wanted, and at 61 instead of Okhotyuk, but I can't really say so much about it since we don't know as much as the scouts.

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

What is the general consensus here on our draft? Besides Hughes and the trade for Subban.

I know nothing of Okhotyuk, Misyul, Clarke, Vukojevic etc.

I thought the trade with Sharks was bad, not good value for a high pick like that and because there were some good players available at 55 that I wanted, and at 61 instead of Okhotyuk, but I can't really say so much about it since we don't know as much as the scouts.

I thought that move down was not good value at all but it's w/e. Other than the Thompson pick this was an A+++ draft. We got HUGE value picks with Moynihan, McCarthy, and Pasic. Okhotyuk and Vukojevic filled huge need for big and strong d-men. Clarke fills a big need for RW sniper. Misyul is a very interesting prospect, huge potential.

 

[MartyOwns]

anyone else wake up this morning feeling like they banged a supermodel last night?

 

[Merrills Marauders]

Pronman gave us the only A+ in his entire draft grades. To be fair, he qualified this by basically saying it has a lot to do with snagging Hughes. Says Misyul’s game “screams NHL player”.

 

[NJDevs26]

I could give two ***ts about the Isles' draft (or anyone else's) after Hughes and Subban to be honest, but you could almost bingo-ball the entire draft after 2 with the way things were going. Or at least start the bingo ball machine after about 17-18.