Prospect Info: 2024 NHL Draft Hype

[Felonious Python]

The WJSS is starting, but is only available on USAHockeyTV.com. The cost there is either $14/game or $30/month.

Gretzky-Hlinka will be on NHLN. Early games. Like 9:30am/1pm.

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[Rschmitz]

Difficult to get hyped when we don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick

 

[Point21]

Difficult to get hyped when we don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick

we will just sell future pieces for more draft picks lol

 

[Felonious Python]

Hlinka-Gretzky pre-tournament game from Team Slovakia's official YouTube channel.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Difficult to get hyped when we don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick

With the way some of you guys are whinging, we are going to be so shit that we'll have our 1st round pick because it's top 10 protected.

 

[Rschmitz]

With the way some of you guys are whinging, we are going to be so shit that we'll have our 1st round pick because it's top 10 protected.

Clever take. Unfortunately the Lightning dealt their 2025 1st so they will be unable to satisfy the conditions to protect their 2024 pick.

I don't believe anyone actually thinks the Lightning will be shit next year, but it's uncomfortable to see people so hypersensitive to honest criticism of organizational moves. Probably a product of our lengthy run of success, popular sentiment is to blindly believe every move will work. We've been conditioned to do so.

I think many who were around for the slow death of our 04 team and the purge of franchise cornerstones though will have a more measured opinion. A lot of people then too, were rationalizing trades and calling people whiners who weren't on board.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Clever take. Unfortunately the Lightning dealt their 2025 1st so they will be unable to satisfy the conditions to protect their 2024 pick.

I don't believe anyone actually thinks the Lightning will be shit next year, but it's uncomfortable to see people so hypersensitive to honest criticism of organizational moves. Probably a product of our lengthy run of success, popular sentiment is to blindly believe every move will work. We've been conditioned to do so.

I think many who were around for the slow death of our 04 team and the purge of franchise cornerstones though will have a more measured opinion. A lot of people then too, were rationalizing trades and calling people whiners who weren't on board.

If that was a problem the league wouldn't have let them make the deal. So you're factually wrong.

 

[Fan from AK]

Clever take. Unfortunately the Lightning dealt their 2025 1st so they will be unable to satisfy the conditions to protect their 2024 pick.

I don't believe anyone actually thinks the Lightning will be shit next year, but it's uncomfortable to see people so hypersensitive to honest criticism of organizational moves. Probably a product of our lengthy run of success, popular sentiment is to blindly believe every move will work. We've been conditioned to do so.

I think many who were around for the slow death of our 04 team and the purge of franchise cornerstones though will have a more measured opinion. A lot of people then too, were rationalizing trades and calling people whiners who weren't on board.

The "slow death" of the 2004 team was due to the lock-out and the subsequent salary cap the next season. Khabi, Vinny, Marty, and Brad were all signed. Those last years of contracts were all buried in a fire known as the owner's lockout. That is what killed any chance of another cup sir in my opinion.

 

[Rschmitz]

If that was a problem the league wouldn't have let them make the deal. So you're factually wrong.

It's not a problem....we just forfeited the conditions unless we can reacquire the pick. It's happened before

 

[Rschmitz]

The "slow death" of the 2004 team was due to the lock-out and the subsequent salary cap the next season. Khabi, Vinny, Marty, and Brad were all signed. Those last years of contracts were all buried in a fire known as the owner's lockout. That is what killed any chance of another cup sir in my opinion.

Khabi wasn't signed, he ended up going to Chicago immediately after the lockout ended and was the main reason we couldn't defend our title.

The lockouts obviously hurt us, but they weren't the kiss of death. We also couldn't develop a single prospect or make a single successful trade for half a decade, the slow bleed of complimentary talent wasn't inevitable.

Purging Richards and Boyle from the roster for peanuts are the main transactions to illustrate my point anyways. We had a lame duck GM in Feaster dealing away star players for other teams leftovers and the vast majority of the board was drinking the kool-aid thinking it would make us more competitive.

 

[Felonious Python]

The Hlinka-Gretzky tournament starts today and select games each day will be available to watch free on YouTube. Check the schedule for the links.

Games

Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup official website

hlinkagretzkycup.cz

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Difficult to get hyped when we don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick

True but you never know what might happen. Somehow we ended up with an early 2nd rounder and swapped 4ths to get Gauthier and Shaugabay before what we thought was going to be an equally boring draft.

The "slow death" of the 2004 team was due to the lock-out and the subsequent salary cap the next season. Khabi, Vinny, Marty, and Brad were all signed. Those last years of contracts were all buried in a fire known as the owner's lockout. That is what killed any chance of another cup sir in my opinion.

Very frustrating time to not take advantage of the golden years of the Big 3. Between ownership not wanting to spend money, to only producing a few prospects here and there, and some dud trades, it lead me personally to be very desperate for people like Len and Barrie to take over.

The Hlinka-Gretzky tournament starts today and select games each day will be available to watch free on YouTube. Check the schedule for the links.

Games

Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup official website

hlinkagretzkycup.cz

Nhl network will be showing the USA-Czechia game at 1:00 pm et too

 

[These Are The Days]

Khabi wasn't signed, he ended up going to Chicago immediately after the lockout ended and was the main reason we couldn't defend our title.

The lockouts obviously hurt us, but they weren't the kiss of death. We also couldn't develop a single prospect or make a single successful trade for half a decade, the slow bleed of complimentary talent wasn't inevitable.

Purging Richards and Boyle from the roster for peanuts are the main transactions to illustrate my point anyways. We had a lame duck GM in Feaster dealing away star players for other teams leftovers and the vast majority of the board was drinking the kool-aid thinking it would make us more competitive.

I lost my shit over trading Boyle and Richards. Absolutely lost it. That was probably the 2nd lowest point in team history aside from Puppa and Bradley's careers being ended by injuries and John Cullen getting cancer while also being millions in debt with Japanese mafia nonsense lingering about and the Lightning were as bad as an expansion team. Probably worse

Unrelated but still semi-related note: the NHL needs to abolish the stupid lottery already. I don't want to imagine what our history would have been without Lecavalier, Hedman and Stamkos. Imagine being that bad and still not getting lucky. You'd basically be what Detroit is right now

 

[Felonious Python]

Gold Medal game today is going to be awesome.


11am

 

[Renopucker]

How unusual to see some of the boards pure white, unadorned with ads. Quite refreshing. Thanks for the link.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[Point21]

In all honesty, if we do end up keeping our top 10 pick, i would love for us to go after one of Demidov, Silayev, or Levshunov unless we somehow end up with Celebrini or Eiserman

 

[GoBoltz56]

In all honesty, if we do end up keeping our top 10 pick, i would love for us to go after one of Demidov, Silayev, or Levshunov unless we somehow end up with Celebrini or Eiserman

Was it a conditional pick?

 

[Point21]

Was it a conditional pick?

its top 10 protected

 

[Stelio Kontos]

In all honesty, if we do end up keeping our top 10 pick, i would love for us to go after one of Demidov, Silayev, or Levshunov unless we somehow end up with Celebrini or Eiserman

Imo This is the best case scenario for this year.. fix the obvious weaknesses get additional cap space than go at it.

don’t want to make the playoffs just to lose in the 1st round.. which is probably the ceiling of the team we’ve seen this year

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Some Lightning prospect connections in the top 10:

- Macklin Celebrini was linemmates with Jack Harvey last year for the Chicago Steel. They're both at Boston U. this season
- Artyom Levshunov is teammates with Isaac Howard at Michigan State
- Konsta Helenius is a linemmate of Niko Huuhtanen for Jukurit
- Zayne Parekh is at Saginaw with Ethan Hay

Spencer Gill, ranked 58th is also the brother of Dyllan Gill

 

[RussianGuyovich]

three seventh round picks means Niko Huuhtanen X3. this is what i believe and no one correct me

 

[Hockeyville USA]

three seventh round picks means Niko Huuhtanen X3. this is what i believe and no one correct me

There will always be Dustin Wolf, Devon Levi, Niko Huuhtanen, Jack Devine, Aiden Fink type talents available in the 7th round. You just have play the talent board correctly and get a bit of luck, then you'll have a nice find.

Hell, Logan Morrison wasn't even drafted and he's producing nicely in A in his first year for Coachella Valley; I advocated for teams to consider him in the late 2nd or 3rd round in 2022.

 

[Felonious Python]