2023 NHL Entry Draft

[montreal]

The tank is on for Bedard....

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[DougHarvey]

Lose with Honour for Connor

 

[bcv]

 

[le_sean]

Dvorsky please. It’s fate that he can naturally fit between Slafovsky and Mesar.

 

[Hannibal]

If not Bedard, i’m on the Dvorsky train.

 

[Saxon]

Lose with Honour for Connor

Suck hard for Bedard!

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Top 10, according to Craig Button.

1. Connor Bedard (C) - Regina (WHL)
2. Matvei Michkov (RW) - Morozova (MHL)
3. Adam Fantilli (C) - Chicago (USHL)
4. Calum Ritchie (C) - Oshawa (OHL)
5. Dalibor Dvorsky (C) - AIK (J20 Nationell)
6. Brayden Yager (C) - Moose Jaw (WHL)
7. Zach Benson (LW) - Winnipeg (WHL)
8. Leo Carlsson (C) - Orebro (SHL)
9. Charlie Stramel (RW) - US NTDP
10. Theo Lindstein (D) - Byrnas (J20 Nationell)

Bedard, Fantilli, Ritchie, Dvorsky, Carlsson - get into bottom 5 and take one.

 

[montreal]

I know Stramel has the hype for USA but I liked what I saw from Will Smith. There's also Yanic Perreault's son Gabe who's with the same USNDTP.

 

[DiglettDangles]

Bottom 3 for Dvorsky
(C) 2022

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Bottom 3 for Dvorsky
(C) 2022

That'll be tough again.

Arizona and Chicago will definitely be bottom 2 this year.

I expect HuGo to keep selling so we'll see.

 

[SOLR]

Top 10, according to Craig Button.

1. Connor Bedard (C) - Regina (WHL)
2. Matvei Michkov (RW) - Morozova (MHL)
3. Adam Fantilli (C) - Chicago (USHL)
4. Calum Ritchie (C) - Oshawa (OHL)
5. Dalibor Dvorsky (C) - AIK (J20 Nationell)
6. Brayden Yager (C) - Moose Jaw (WHL)
7. Zach Benson (LW) - Winnipeg (WHL)
8. Leo Carlsson (C) - Orebro (SHL)
9. Charlie Stramel (RW) - US NTDP
10. Theo Lindstein (D) - Byrnas (J20 Nationell)

Bedard, Fantilli, Ritchie, Dvorsky, Carlsson - get into bottom 5 and take one.

No way Calum Ritchie is 4

(and here we go)

That'll be tough again.

Arizona and Chicago will definitely be bottom 2 this year.

I expect HuGo to keep selling so we'll see.

It depends if we sell Petry before the season.
It depends if we sell Dvorak/Anderson at the deadline. We could be epic tankers in the post-deadline timelines.
It depends if Florida implodes! LOL
It depends how much they buy/trade before the season starts.
Depends of injuries: Drouin, Price, Byron, Dach (hopefully not)

 

[MarkovsKnee]

No way Calum Ritchie is 4

(and here we go)



It depends if we sell Petry before the season.
It depends if we sell Dvorak/Anderson at the deadline. We could be epic tankers in the post-deadline timelines.
It depends if Florida implodes! LOL
It depends how much they buy/trade before the season starts.
Depends of injuries: Drouin, Price, Byron, Dach (hopefully not)

Button's list, but yeah, let's do this! lol

Yeah, we'll see how he continues to move people out.

 

[SOLR]

*Since we did not improve our positioning in the lottery this year - we still could win the lottery to draft Bedard AND Kiviharju over the next 2 years.

 

[Hope Of Glory]

This will likely be one of the most interesting draft to follow in a long while. We already have 2x1st and could be adding more at the deadline. And obviouslythe talent level seems incredible. Can't wait.

 

[SOLR]

1. One of the most important challenges will be to figure out who follows Bedard and Michkov, right now I think that's Yager. He has the pure goal scorer profile that is so rare.
2. If a very prevalent Russian factor could make Michkov a ND.

 

[Team_Spirit]

With the loss of Romanov we are worse on paper for 22-23. Progress was made.

Discard for Bedard
Stay smelly for Fantilli
Switch off for Michkov

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

DISCARD FOR BEDARD!!!


...but seriously, maybe HuGo's plan was to address #1C with the 2023 draft...we'll see...

 

[Anardil]

I guess it's time to change my avatar.

 

[Saxon]

No way Calum Ritchie is 4

(and here we go)



It depends if we sell Petry before the season.
It depends if we sell Dvorak/Anderson at the deadline. We could be epic tankers in the post-deadline timelines.
It depends if Florida implodes! LOL
It depends how much they buy/trade before the season starts.
Depends of injuries: Drouin, Price, Byron, Dach (hopefully not)

If we miss out on one of these centre's it'll be catastrophic.

 

[SOLR]

If we miss out on one of these centre's it'll be catastrophic.

We need a star more than we need a center.
But a center star would be ideal.

 

[Maxime Bernier]

Top 10, according to Craig Button.

1. Connor Bedard (C) - Regina (WHL)
2. Matvei Michkov (RW) - Morozova (MHL)
3. Adam Fantilli (C) - Chicago (USHL)
4. Calum Ritchie (C) - Oshawa (OHL)
5. Dalibor Dvorsky (C) - AIK (J20 Nationell)
6. Brayden Yager (C) - Moose Jaw (WHL)
7. Zach Benson (LW) - Winnipeg (WHL)
8. Leo Carlsson (C) - Orebro (SHL)
9. Charlie Stramel (RW) - US NTDP
10. Theo Lindstein (D) - Byrnas (J20 Nationell)

Bedard, Fantilli, Ritchie, Dvorsky, Carlsson - get into bottom 5 and take one.

Is Charlie Stramel really a top 10? He will be one of the older player of the draft. If you compare him to Benson, there is a big difference in talent. For the few times I watched Winnipeg, Benson was their best player, better than Savoie and Geekie.

Another player to watch is Colby Barlow. He has beaten Bobby Ryan goal record in Owen Sound (most goal in their 16 year old rookie season) by 8 goals (30 vs 22). He had 30g-17a-47pts in 59 games. In playoff, he added 5 goals and 1 assist in 7 games. He is 6 foot tall and 194lbs.

 

[Clearedwaivers]

Play silly for Fantilli.

 

[Clearedwaivers]

Any potential number 1 D types in this draft? In the event we are not picking top five, but rather 6-10, and the centres and Michkov would be gone, who has the best chance of being a 1D?

 

[Seb]

If we don't get out of that draft with one of the top C it will be a huge failure.

 

[Doublechin]

Top 10, according to Craig Button.

1. Connor Bedard (C) - Regina (WHL)
2. Matvei Michkov (RW) - Morozova (MHL)
3. Adam Fantilli (C) - Chicago (USHL)
4. Calum Ritchie (C) - Oshawa (OHL)
5. Dalibor Dvorsky (C) - AIK (J20 Nationell)
6. Brayden Yager (C) - Moose Jaw (WHL)
7. Zach Benson (LW) - Winnipeg (WHL)
8. Leo Carlsson (C) - Orebro (SHL)
9. Charlie Stramel (RW) - US NTDP
10. Theo Lindstein (D) - Byrnas (J20 Nationell)

Bedard, Fantilli, Ritchie, Dvorsky, Carlsson - get into bottom 5 and take one.

Question is which ones on this list will end up dropping to the 2nd 3rd etc