blood gin
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And that first round pick is a guarantee? The Devils can speed up the process without ending up one of the worst teams again in a few years. Or even a bad team.
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And that first round pick is a guarantee? The Devils can speed up the process without ending up one of the worst teams again in a few years. Or even a bad team.
It's not a guarantee. It's a better bet than going forward without it. Look, obviously if Schneider (or Kinkaid) were a .920 goalie the Devils wouldn't be in this position. There's a lot of nice pieces in the Devils' system, but organizationally we're not screaming 'future Cup contender' as much as 'future pretty good team'. A top pick would help a lot, and it would make up for 2016, when the Devils should've had a high pick and didn't (and McLeod doesn't look like he is going to be an impact player).
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I understand what you're saying, but you can also screw up a rebuild by being too slow, too deliberate, and too conservative in your approach. Shero not improving the team this off season in any way was not a good strategy. And we can keep this years 1 but what if we end up taking Olli Juolevi instead of Clayton Keller. Hall is 27, those prime years will be over before you know it.
Think of Bratt as the first rounder and ANDERSON as the second rounder. It makes anything else from that draft a nice bonus.
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A team will never be a cup contender if they do not draft well. Stating that teams miss on picks makes little sense to me. You can miss on FA's and trades as well. The difference is missed draft picks do not end up costing a team on their salary cap. It does not affect the Devils now, but think how upset we would be Cory's contract if we actually had enough talent to be spending up to the cap.
Whoops, didn't mean to derail the draft thread. Here's ISS' December rankings: ISS Top 31 - Top Prospect Rankings
I’m know it’s a trick of the computer but when I open the link it shows HUGHES as being 5.1 in terms of height. It’s crazy enough he weighs 150. Now he’s 5’1” also.
It is though, because the lack of structure/effort etc is all on coaching and that's much less of a problem to fix than goaltending. We have a below average starter in KK and a guy who should voluntarily retire due to his disgraceful play in Cory.
For all the crying and screaming about Ray sitting pat, what the hell could he have done to change things? With Hynes behind the bench and Cory in the locker room we'd be screwed even if he had traded futures for Erik Karlsson. This offseason is key. I think we need to see 3 things by next year. a) Coaching change; b) High Draft pick that could make an impact soon as well as Ty Smith coming in; and c) At least one big off-season move to improve the team (something like trading for Trouba, signing Stone or Duchene, etc).
Hell, for all we know Ray surprises us and makes a couple big moves. I don't think that's a realistic expectation, but this is an off-season that is presenting a lot of opportunities.
1- There are some great UFA fish.
2- Tampa and WPG will be in cap hell and will likely have to move some good assets. Toronto will likely have issues as well.
3- Besides being in a lottery position for the draft there's an opportunity to pick up a double over-ager who could step into NHL play and make an instant impact in Brett Leason with an early 2nd/late 1st.
Just give me Kakko this year and Lafrenière next year, is that too much to ask for?
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Having a full compliment of picks this season will absolutely help, and we should get one or two more for Mojo at the deadline.
I wouldn’t be holding my breath for a top 3 pick though. Between the unpredictable nature of the lotto plus the fact the team is going to level out and most likely end up in the latter half of the top 10. Maybe they get lucky, but you can’t depend on that.
I would research the hell out of 5-10 and pick a few names to follow from there.
I wouldn’t be holding my breath for a top 3 pick though. Between the unpredictable nature of the lotto plus the fact the team is going to level out and most likely end up in the latter half of the top 10. Maybe they get lucky, but you can’t depend on that.
I would research the hell out of 5-10 and pick a few names to follow from there.
I'm just dying for us to trade up and land another 1st round pick like the Flyers did with Konecny or the Ducks with Perry in 2003.
If we do add more picks by moving MoJo, or anyone else for that matter, I would try and move up in order to add quality over quantity... especially with all the picks we've had over the past couple of years.
If someone like Alex Turcotte were to fall because of recent injuries, he's the type of of player I'd target.
If we do add more picks by moving MoJo, or anyone else for that matter, I would try and move up in order to add quality over quantity... especially with all the picks we've had over the past couple of years.
If someone like Alex Turcotte were to fall because of recent injuries, he's the type of of player I'd target.
Caufield solidifies self as exciting prospect ahead of 2019 NHL Draft
Would really like this guy as a pure goal scoring right wing outside the top 10
Would really like this guy as a pure goal scoring right wing outside the top 10
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Kakko, Hughes if in the top 2 slots, 3-10 I like Byram, Turcotte, Krebs, Cozens, Broberg, Podkolzin, Zegras. no orfer, but Byram as my 3 love his game and think he is exactly who the devils need.
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Interesting....the few reports I’ve read puts it as less than elite but the clips I’ve seen look like he’d be fine playing here.
Full disclosure, I really like Cozens, I think he’d be a great ‘modern’ power forward for the team, RH shot, scoring ability, passing ability, fast, can play in dirty areas, etc. I think he’ll transition to RW full time as a pro. But, I could be happy with a number of the forwards. I haven’t given much attention to Hughes or Kakko because I don’t expect the Devils to pick 1 or 2.
That's how we got Gomez in 1998 as well. It's interesting to me as a draft geek that the analytics say it's better to trade down and accumulate more picks but historically the team trading up tends to do a lot better.
Man there are a lot of good players to choose from :0
Some players I like: hughes/kakko (obviously), Byram, Podkolzin, Turcotte, Lavoie, Newhook, Cozens.
I also like caufield, honka, and dorofeyev.
Some players I like: hughes/kakko (obviously), Byram, Podkolzin, Turcotte, Lavoie, Newhook, Cozens.
I also like caufield, honka, and dorofeyev.
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Dach's probably my favorite outside of Kakko and Hughes.
Joe Thornton may be too lofty of a comparison, but damn can he pass the puck.
Joe Thornton may be too lofty of a comparison, but damn can he pass the puck.
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We dont have enough of that already?...
This team needs shooters damn it. Also need some high end flashy skill because besides Bratt and the occasional Palmieri deke, this team has zero flash
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I don’t care what this team has come draft day. BPA NO MATTER WHAT
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