DanStewart
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DJAnimosity said:Unless my math is way off, I do believe that Phoenix runs out of time at 4:53 p.m. ET.
(Last pick made at 8:53 p.m. last night, minus the midnight to 8 a.m. moratorium)
5:53 pm EST actually.
DJAnimosity said:Unless my math is way off, I do believe that Phoenix runs out of time at 4:53 p.m. ET.
(Last pick made at 8:53 p.m. last night, minus the midnight to 8 a.m. moratorium)
Cup4Wings said:Actually, I think CC has done a good job in this draft. PB, who would you have rather seen CC take in the 27th and 31st spots?
Prussian_Blue said:Just differences of opinion, I guess...
In the mock draft that I'm running, I've gotten feedback from other regulars on the Blues' board before making the Blues' picks.
We took Trevor Lewis (C, Des Moines) at #27, and Tomas Kana (C, Vitkovice) at #31.
Both players were available in those positions in this mock draft.
Lewis is going to college next year (Minnesota, I believe), but he's had an excellent season in the USHL, and the Blues' top management (plus their chief scout and Midwestern scout) have been strongly rumored to have scouted him several times this year. There is some concern that Lewis' numbers are influenced by the presence of Kyle Okposo on his wing, but if Lewis needs a strong winger to excel, the Blues have a few of those in the system (Backes, Shishkanov, Stempniak, Soderberg) waiting for Lewis to connect with.
The only real advantage Foligno has over Lewis, in our minds, is that he's playing major junior and thus will be available for the AHL sooner (two years as opposed to possibly four). They are of comparable size (Lewis is actually a little bigger), and both players were significantly better than point-per-game performers in their respective leagues.
As for Kana, his performance in the Czech elite league has been significantly better than Joensuu's in the Finnish elite league, and the Czech league is (arguably) a superior league at the elite level. Joensuu is a little bigger (6-04, 207 vs. 6-00, 202 for Kana), but Kana has NHL size and is a right-shooting center, which the Blues value highly.
Again, it's really a difference of opinion, but we feel that the picks the Blues' team made in my mock draft are more representative of the types of players that the Blues will pursue in June, and perhaps even more representative of the actual players that the Blues will pick in those positions, based on knowledge gained from all of us being a little closer to the situation than Captain Conservative.
P_B
Amphitryon said:Excellent choice. I really hoped to get Alexandrov with my 2nd pick.
Amphitryon said:The Colorado Avalanche are pleased to select, from Calgary Hitmen of the WHL, Center Ryan White.
Washington is on the clock
Roo said:Nice. I was gonna take him if Alexandrov was taken.