Just playing devils advocate here but I doubt he’ll come out and say he was fully aware of the events that took place when he was there and decided to keep quiet, you know, just to stay out of trouble.
Why is the “around the league - 2012 offseason part II” thread locked ?
I don’t mind the pick so much, it’s just frustrating that we’ve bad for years and had so few high picks because of the lost 2nd that we haven’t drafted a lot of high end elite offensive guys in this part of the draft. I’m more generally frustrated about that and getting a sexier offensive producer would have made me feel better because I feel like you might be able to get a guy like Stillman a little latter in the draft.I fully admit I know jack shit about like 90% of all these kids, so I'm not excited or upset about Stillman. He does sound like the type of player we need more of, and given how everybody ed their pants over Tampa's third line I would imagine that type of player may be more sought after now than before so maybe he wouldn't have been there if we'd traded down, or maybe there just wasn't a trade down that made sense.
I reject the idea that picking a guy ranked in the 40s-50s on various boards at the end of the 1st round in this draft is even a reach, or at least a reach worth complaining about.
Hockey executives aren’t infallible but they probably are more informed than a guy who says a player has a 3% chance of becoming an NHLer because his chart based on 8 games in some Danish league says so.
Paging @StevenToddIves please make some sense of that
Everyone has to make their own choices, I have no sympathy for the reasons people lie for terrible shit they did. He would have likely been neck deep in the cover-up, so I get why he’s lying.Just playing devils advocate here but I doubt he’ll come out and say he was fully aware of the events that took place when he was there and decided to keep quiet, you know, just to stay out of trouble.
I mean I'd be lying if I didn't say Fitz going (ahem) off board made me a little nervous - particularly last year when he reached even more for Muk mostly based off of 8-9 games at the start of a KHL season - but the guy's been a GM for two years, we haven't seen enough to know definitively whether he is smarter than the average HF cynic or not. When Steve Yzerman goes off the so-called board, he's got enough of a track record to give him the benefit of the doubt he knows something. Fitz doesn't get that benefit of the doubt yet, but he will if the Muk/Stillman type picks start hitting.
So you think we could have gotten Meier for a package that was highlighted by the 29th pick? This is the pipe dream part I was referring to.
He didn’t stay “quiet”. He flat out said he didn’t know
Especially the OHL kids. This is where actual scouts make their paycheck. They have all the tape on these kids they can get, they have actually spoken and interviewed these kids.
They are working with a much larger data set then anyone on here has. They have to use said data correctly, though even that isn't a guarantee, but you have to trust your guys in thr room with the information they have, not what some schmucks on a message board guessing at names thinks
Good lord what are the Rangers doing?Joe Micheletti's brother on twitter saying keep a eye on Zibanejad tomorrow lol wut
I mean I'd be lying if I didn't say Fitz going (ahem) off board made me a little nervous - particularly last year when he reached even more for Muk mostly based off of 8-9 games at the start of a KHL season - but the guy's been a GM for two years, we haven't seen enough to know definitively whether he is smarter than the average HF cynic or not. When Steve Yzerman goes off the so-called board, he's got enough of a track record to give him the benefit of the doubt he knows something. Fitz doesn't get that benefit of the doubt yet, but he will if the Muk/Stillman type picks start hitting.
No idea, but I like it! Keep making moves Chris!Good lord what are the Rangers doing?
So you think we could have gotten Meier for a package that was highlighted by the 29th pick? This is the pipe dream part I was referring to.
I don't understand why you're being an arrogant ass hat about this. We're not just guessing names, but keep posting stuff like that.
Good lord what are the Rangers doing?
I don't understand why you're being an arrogant ass hat about this. We're not just guessing names, but keep posting stuff like that.