Best players of 2008 draft this season, round 2-4
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The three do not normally play on the same line though. Before Duchene went down with an injury, Brampton's second line was Grachev-Duchene-Tanski. The top line usually features Hodgson with Dale and another winger. Even in the time since Duchene went down with an upper body injury, Grachev and Hodgson have largely remained on separate lines.
Just saying - give Grachev some credit.
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Let's see...
I made this ranking with forwards only.
(Legend: Name (TEAM, pick #) points per game average so far this year)
I made this ranking with forwards only.
(Legend: Name (TEAM, pick #) points per game average so far this year)
- Colin Long (PHO, 99) 1,60
- Philip McRae (STL, 33) 1,40
- Evgeny Grachev (NYR, 75) 1,21
- Adam Henrique (NJ, 82) 1,14
- Mitch Wahl (CAL, 48) 1,12
- Dmitri Kugryshev (WAS, 58) 1,08
- Mikhail Stefanovich (TOR, 98) 1,08
- Luke Adam (BUF, 44) 1,05
- Kelsey Tessier (COL, 110) 1,04
- Eric O'Dell (ANA, 39) 1,04
- Jamie Arniel (BOS, 97) 1,04
- Nathan Moon (PIT, 120) 1,04
- Danny Kristo (MTL, 56) 1,00
- Maxime Sauvé (BOS, 47) 0,96
- James Wright (TB, 117) 0,96
- Gustav Nyquist (DET, 121) 0,92
- Josh Brittain (ANA, 71) 0,89
- Scott Winkler (DAL, 89) 0,88
- Patrice Cormier (NJ, 54) 0,87
- Danick Paquette (ATL, 64) 0,87
- Justin Daniels (SJ, 62) 0,82
- Ian Schultz (STL, 87) 0,82
- Jared Staal (PHO, 49) 0,81
- Brandon McMillan (ANA, 85) 0,81
- Zac Dalpe (CAR, 45) 0,73
- Steve Quailer (MTL, 86) 0,73
- Nicolas Deschamps (ANA, 35) 0,72
- Jori Lehtera (STL, 65) 0,70
- James Livingston (STL, 70) 0,67
- AJ Jenks (FLO, 100) 0,65
- Jimmy Hayes (TOR, 60) 0,62
- Geordie Wudrick (LA, 88) 0,52
- Derek Stepan (NYR, 51) 0,50
- Lance Bouma (CAL, 78) 0,42
- Vinny Saponari (ATL, 94) 0,42
- Nick Larson (CAL, 108) 0,36
- Dale Weise (NYR, 111) 0,35
- Kirill Petrov (NYI, 73) 0,25
- Robert Czarnik (LA, 63) 0,25
- David Toews (NYI, 66) 0,22
- Corey Trivino (NYI, 36) 0,17
- Justin Jokinen (BUF, 101) 0,11
- David Ullstrom (NYI, 102) 0,00
Euros have no place on the list. CHL and euro leagues are not comparable. And also how Ullstrom can be 0,00 if he has 13 pts in 14 games?
And Zack Smith is, AFAIK, the only player outside of the first round to have made the NHL from this draft.
he's also older than most prospects in the draft. I believe this was his 3rd time in the draft.
SergeConstantin74
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SergeConstantin74
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Made the NHL? one game...
Jason Demers (7th round) in San Jose also made it in the AHL. They're overagers, so they could go in the AHL. I believe many 19 and 18 yo CHLers would have made it in the AHL without the rule.
i think the most impressive thing with zack smith is that he was a guy that every team in the league passed over twice. Only after scoring 70pts in 72 games in his final whl season (he had 15pts the year before) did he even garner any attention. For a guy like that to be almost ppg in the ahl has to be impressive.
SergeConstantin74
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He's in Ottawa's system and I understand that he has more attention by you, but it was the same case for Demers. Also passed over twice, nearly passed over a third time, he's in the AHL now and has 10 points so far... he is second in points for d-men on his team.
meh, its the other demers i'm more excited about. Julien will be in the NHL some day, mark my words.
One game is more then anyone else who was drafted outside the first round.
I wasn't talking about making the AHL. I was talking about making the NHL.
It was only an overview and I did my best. If you're not happy, just make one yourself.
Relax, it was just an opinion. And a logical one. So why the
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Vaclav Varada
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I don't think anyone is claiming Smith is the best player taken between round 2-4, but it is pretty impressive that a kid just drafted outside of round 1 has played an NHL game so far.
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I don't know the guy and I don't want to judge him, but I'm not surprised he played a game in Ottawa. According to some people, this team lacks a bit of depth...
The problem with Ottawa this year isn't actual forward depth but scoring depth. The story's a little different if you're going by our forward prospect depth but becoming a top callup after being drafted this year and only just getting his foot in the door in the AHL is pretty impressive on any team.
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Roman Josi
6 goals and 14 assists in a men's league as an 18 year old. He's impressive and I'm no Preds fan
6 goals and 14 assists in a men's league as an 18 year old. He's impressive and I'm no Preds fan
Martyros
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vojnov isn't doing that bad in Manchester......He's probably their best defender right now all-round.
