2023 NHL Draft Talk

[Gstank]

The player taken with the NYI pick will be in Canuck history. Just like how Guenther will always be mentioned.

I honestly dont see Guenther being much better then Boeser 30 goal 60/70 point winger who doesnt really drive offensive. People greatly over exagerate prospects

 

[lawrence]

Well, they certainly aren't being intentional in their pursuit of Bedard, which is really really frustrating. Doesn't feel like they deserve to be bailed out by a miraculous #1 or #2 pick.

Jim Rutherford is just a hired guy for a job. He's just happy to be working because if he's not working he's just sitting at home. He's a Toronto born guy whois not a Canuck fan at heart. Frankly for him, it be cool if we get Bedard, but in the end, he probably doesn't really give a shit too much if we don't get Bedard.

we fans are here for life. He's not. the same for Patrik Alvin. He's just a hired guy for a job, and if he loses his job one day, he's just oh well. time to move on. blah blah blah.

 

[Gstank]

I would not be surprised now if they traded that pick. Dante Fabbro is who I could see being hoisted upon us or a dman like him.



The 2nd rounder from the OEL trade (2nd in 2022) is Hunter Haight who is also tracking very well and a PPG center in the OHL.

He is below a PPG and that isnt tracking well at all for a mid second round pick. He probably drops to the 3rd/4th round in a redraft

 

[DFAC]

So much excitement for this years draft and now its all gone.

Depressing stuff

 

[Canucks LB]

I’m so annoyed, I want to lock this thread, even though we still have a pick lmao

 

[Superlative Soup]

I’m so annoyed, I want to lock this thread, even though we still have a pick lmao

Just lock the Canucks forum at this point.

 

[Takumi3000]

If Michkov drops to us, we aren’t gonna be taking him for sure. This org can’t even wait one season let alone three

 

[clay]

Have traded first round picks in 3 of the last 4 drafts. Will have a 3 year stretch without a second round pick by next year. 27th place team. Worst prospect pool in the league.

 

[Icebreakers]

People talk about the Canucks having poor amateur scouting. Their pro scouting is 100x worse.

 

[CanuckleBerry]

Have traded first round picks in 3 of the last 4 drafts. Will have a 3 year stretch without a second round pick by next year. 27th place team. Worst prospect pool in the league.

Non-playoff teams doing this is the definition of insanity. We're bottom of the league pretending we're in the mix. At this rate we've got another 10 years incoming of post-Benning-mediocrity at absolute best. People will be burning jerseys in barrels in front of Rogers Arena.

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Getting back to the draft.... Not alot of high end D available this year, but the 2 I think are really good & will rise are Simashev & Reinbacher.

Assuming we are outside the top 5 I wouldn't mind taking one of them.

 

[Icebreakers]

At this point let's just win some games and pick 8th-9th and take Reinbacher.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

At this point let's just win some games and pick 8th-9th and take Reinbacher.

Likely 10th, but I suspect they will move on from the pick to address defense or cap concerns. Nothing about what they are doing seems to indicate they care about the draft.

Fans should be looking at 3rd/4th round flyers that could be useful even further out... but then again we may be back to the era of taking over-agers.

 

[CanuckleBerry]

Might as well just trade this years 1st and next years now

Just get it over with already, this ****ing team

I’m done following the draft because after today, I fully expect them to trade the pick.

If they don't get into the top 5 I'm almost 100% sure they'll trade the pick.

It'll be after the lottery, maybe at the draft itself. Writing is on the wall. Picks out, 25 or under players in. Might as well close the thread.

 

[LemonSauceD]

There’s a good chance we pick Reinbacher if we fall out of the bottom 7. Reinbacher’s draft projection is going to increase much like Seider/Heiskanen’s did in their respective draft years.

Unless Allvin does something incredibly stupid, which is a given, we should be quite comfortably be choosing a stud centerman like Smith/Benson/Yager or Reinbacher if we’re closer towards 10th overall.

Personally, I like Benson the most outside of the top 3, and I’m a bit weary of Carlsson.

 

[BerSTUzzi]

So who should we target with our five picks in the 3rd-4th rounds. Can we just apply the metrics around whatever we normally do in the 5th round to all of these picks please?

 

[Jay26]

Have traded first round picks in 3 of the last 4 drafts. Will have a 3 year stretch without a second round pick by next year. 27th place team. Worst prospect pool in the league.

It defies logic.

 

[timw33]

I honestly dont see Guenther being much better then Boeser 30 goal 60/70 point winger who doesnt really drive offensive. People greatly over exagerate prospects

The point is getting Boeser like production for a 3 year ELC and 4 additional cost moderated years and being able to walk away from players by having internal cheap replacements.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Wow, this has become such an informative thread. I didn't want to read about draft prospects. I want yet another LiveJournal entry from the most unbalanced fans on the planet who somehow simultaneously loathe their own team, but can't go find another hobby.

It's cool to be skeptical about the plan here. But does it always have to be hair on fire nonsense that pollutes every single thread?

 

[Canucks LB]

Wow, this has become such an informative thread. I didn't want to read about draft prospects. I want yet another LiveJournal entry from the most unbalanced fans on the planet who somehow simultaneously loathe their own team, but can't go find another hobby.

It's cool to be skeptical about the plan here. But does it always have to be hair on fire nonsense that pollutes every single thread?

Were emotional human beings, I will say this, it’s kind of cool seeing we have 3 4th round draft picks, and 2 3rds, which we could move up for a second

 

[Canucks LB]

How about this, pick a centre with the first pick, and then literally pick nothing but defenceman for literally every single other pick in the entire draft lmao

 

[Gstank]

So we have 2 3rds and 3 4ths who are some players to target in that range?

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Wow, this has become such an informative thread. I didn't want to read about draft prospects. I want yet another LiveJournal entry from the most unbalanced fans on the planet who somehow simultaneously loathe their own team, but can't go find another hobby.

It's cool to be skeptical about the plan here. But does it always have to be hair on fire nonsense that pollutes every single thread?

Which 4th rounders are you looking forward to the Canucks drafting and trading on?

 

[Brock Boeser Laser Show]

So we have 2 3rds and 3 4ths who are some players to target in that range?

We do? Those extra picks arent going to fly with aqualini and company. Don't count on the Canucks actually making more than 5 or 6 picks this draft like usual.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

We do? Those extra picks arent going to fly with aqualini and company. Don't count on the Canucks actually making more than 5 or 6 picks this draft like usual.

They will be critical in moving out cap space. It's why I'm not paying all that much attention now. There's some guys who may fall to there like Whitelaw but I'm thinking this looks like that Benning period where they start shooting for overagers to fill holes "quickly" and then it's a bad scene.