GDT: 2020 NHL Draft Round 1 - 7 PM - NBCSN
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Pronman’s final mock draft has Lundell going at 21...I don’t care if he’s another C. I would be disappointed if Lundell is there that late and we pass on him. He’s a player.
Please, please, please Drysdale or Rossi at 7. I wouldn’t envy the Devils if somehow both were still available at 7, as unlikely as that may appear.
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What's the general consensus on the strength of this class? Outside of the top 10 guys, I haven't been tuned in enough to know about how our later 1st round picks might turn out if we keep them.
Very deep on wingers, especially on the right. Potential 1st line players available in the top 20-25 (although with some question marks for the later picks of course).
We're going to get a very good player. What a day.
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I can't remember the last year I wanted to watch the entire first round but this one seems like it will be very unpredictable. I'm in.
There's little chance Sanderson gets past Anaheim, if he even gets by Detroit and Ottawa.
This is actually a terrific mock draft. I agree with you that Gunler will fall -- recent reports out of Sweden are apparently not making NHL teams willing to pull the trigger. Perfetti falling to #12 -- boy, that would send the Canadian media into a tizzy.
With Perreault, the team I'm most worried about is Montreal. I really want him at 18 or 20, as he probably possesses the highest upside of any RW in the 2020 draft -- but Montreal is apparently looking for goal-scoring at #16, and boy would Perreault fill that hole. I know they drafted Caufield last year so there would be some reluctance to use a second straight first-round pick on a RW.
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Does Perreault have any MF'er in his game like Palmieri or is he a pure skill/shot guy?
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This is a difficult and very interesting draft. I thought for a long time whether Monreal would choose Perrault, Bourque, or Lapierre. I decided to choose Lapierre. Bergevin must make his strangest decision.
Yzerman`s decision should change all top-12 order.
Dubas pick is something i cant even understand how he will go there. He should definitely choose Amirov or Schneider. But I think he definitely won't do it.
I cant see how Zary would fall so far, but i can`t see how Holloway could fall so far. And I have strong clear belief Columbus will pick goal scorer, Phi will pick Greig, Wsh will pick JJ Peterka, and NYR should pick Lapierre or Marat.
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Since it’s apparent that at least the Devils read your posts, I believe this is the time (It’s never too late) that you should begin bad mouthing the players we like at 7. Now I know you don’t like to put down 18 year old kids but how about talking about how Sanderson is a known Mommas boy who holds her hand while they walk through the mall. Drysdale never cleans his own plate after dinner. Rossi... whew, well Rossi picks his nose. Don’t even get me started on Lucas Raymond.
I've been saying this awhile, but Jake Sanderson is the only player I would say is a likelihood of going at #4, #5 and #6 overall. Outside the ostensible "Big 3" of Lafreniere/Byfield/Stutzle, Sanderson is the least likely player to make it to the Devils at the #7 pick. He not only fills a huge team need as a almost-NHL ready future 25-minute, all-situations LD, but he's also right in line with what all three of those teams and front offices have coveted in their recent draft histories. When you add in that he's also -- at least arguably -- in the conversation for "best available player" at all three picks, and it's tough to conceive of his falling to the Devils at #7 overall.
Using the same logic, Drysdale is the second-least likely player to fall. Again, all three teams -- Detroit, Ottawa and Anaheim -- have major organizational holes at RD, and none of them have an offensive defenseman with nearly the upside of Jamie Drysdale. I'm a bit skeptical about Ottawa and Anaheim due to their reluctance to use early draft picks on players under 6'0, especially on the blueline. The last player under 6'0 drafted with Anaheim's first pick was Kyle Palmieri in 2011. For Ottawa? We need to go back to Patrick Eaves in 2003. Last year, neither Anaheim nor Ottawa iced a single defenseman under 6'0. However, Drysdale is a bit of a unique player who often draws comparisons to Cale Makar, whom any NHL team would covet regardless of size preference. Also, Drysdale is not like some of the other offensive defensemen in the 2020 class who are liabilities defensively and physically, like Helge Grans and Jeremie Poirier and Lucas Cormier. Drysdale is actually a pretty good defender, and not unwilling to play with edge. Thus, I have to think he's a good bet to be gone in the top 6.
Fortunately for the Devils, the #7 spot is a nice place to be in 2020. If either of Drysdale or Sanderson fall, I'd say they would be the certain front runner to be the Devils top pick. But if they both are gone by #7? That would leave two of an extremely talented trio of line-driving forwards in Perfetti/Raymond/Rossi available. We'd also need to consider Alex Holtz, as Fitzgerald knows how valuable a pure goal-scorer like this would be to a Hughes or a Hischier. However, I would caution against Holtz, simply because there should be goal-scoring wingers with comparable talent available at #18 & #20 -- especially Jacob Perreault and Rodion Amirov, but also Gunler, Reichel, Mercer etc. One or two of those names should slip through the cracks.
The one thing to keep in mind about Pronman's mock draft -- along with my mock draft and your mock draft and everyone else's mock draft -- is they all suck. Every year it happens -- Ottawa will take a dude like Jack Quinn at #5 overall and the entire continent is filled with the sound of people shredding their carefully-considered, hard-worked-on mocks.
Which is to say, I will buy you a beer if Lundell falls past #20. NHL front offices love players like Lundell, and they don't give two f***s if the draft-writers do not.
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Minnesota just feels like the perfect spot for him
Alice Cooper reference! I met him once in Monterey California. I told him he looked better without the make-up and he laughed.
Ya, but did you see him in the old John Carpenter flick The Prince of Darkness. Pretty creepy even without the makeup
If he falls to 20 and the Devils snag him that sounds like a win/win scenario for me. The Devils draft Lundell and a free beer for me
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Completely arbitrary percentage of 3.6% in my opinion. I do not believe it's likely
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Sure, there is a chance. If the Devils like him more than any other prospect available at 7.
For me, there isn’t a scenario where there isn’t a prospect I like more isn’t available at 7 but it’s not my list that matters, only the Devils list.
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