Confirmed with Link: Brad Ross leaves TOR Org. Signs in DEL

[Cor]

@KyleTheReporter: Looks like Brad Ross' time in Toronto is over. Signed with club in Germany http://t.co/s2C1O0oUqr


- Think most had hopes for this kid. Looked real good in junior, and fell off.

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[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[WTFMAN99]

@KyleTheReporter: Looks like Brad Ross' time in Toronto is over. Signed with club in Germany http://t.co/s2C1O0oUqr


- Think most had hopes for this kid. Looked real good in junior, and fell off.

3rd wheel on a line with Johansen and Baerstchi.

Kind of like Bittner with Petan and Bjorkstrand.

Either way, add this to Jesse Blacker and Kenny Ryan 2nd round busts this organization has had.

 

[Daisy Jane]

he's the one who took the PEDs?

 

[gamer1035]

Aren't these guys with 3rd line ceilings supposed to be safe picks? All of them have busted. Why the **** are we drafting them then?

 

[GoodNewfieBoy]

Leafs can't draft in the second round. Maybe that's why they always trade them away.

 

[Jerkini]

You should get a player at 43rd overall. Bad scouting is bad.

 

[Stephen]

Brian Burke actually traded Jimmy Hayes to get this pick, then went on about how great he was.

 

[Jerkini]

Leafs can't draft in the second round. Maybe that's why they always trade them away.

Nik Kulemin and Matt Stajan since 2002. That's atrocious.

 

[SprDaVE]

Quite the disappointment. Great junior player but he was fairly bad in the AHL overall and couldn't stay healthy or have any impact.

Such a shame.

 

[The Winter Soldier]

This was a bad read and pick in retrospect. Ross played on a line with Ryan Johansen and Nino Niederreiter in Portland. Safe to say it wasn't him that made that line go.

 

[StuckOutHere]

You should get a player at 43rd overall. Bad scouting is bad.

2014 Ryan MacInnis
2013 Nicolas Petan
2012 Ludvig Bystrom
2011 Brandon Saad
2010 Brad Ross
2009 William Wrenn
2008 Justin Schultz
2007 PK Subban
2006 Riley Holzapfel
2005 Michael Blunden
2004 Michael Funk

 

[hotpaws]

I thought we were doing the Detroit model where we were leaving prospects in the minors for extended periods to fully develop and not because they were busting .

another wasted pick from the genius Burke

 

[ACC1224]

You should get a player at 43rd overall. Bad scouting is bad.

Is he the 1st to bust from that spot?

 

[StuckOutHere]

Brian Burke actually traded Jimmy Hayes to get this pick, then went on about how great he was.

The hilarious part was some of the justification was Burke's sibling theory. Jimmy now plays in Florida and Kevin left the Hawks for the Rangers.

 

[Daisy Jane]

Brian Burke actually traded Jimmy Hayes to get this pick, then went on about how great he was.

(sigh)

 

[Trapper]

I thought we were doing the Detroit model where we were leaving prospects in the minors for extended periods to fully develop and not because they were busting .

another wasted pick from the genius Burke

Leafs are notorius for picking the "other" guy.
Columbus gets Johanson, we get his linemate Ross.
Toronto picks Biggs, Columbus takes his linemate Jenner.

 

[hotpaws]

Aren't these guys with 3rd line ceilings supposed to be safe picks? All of them have busted. Why the **** are we drafting them then?

that's what i keep getting told

unfortunately for us just because a player lacks talent it doesn't make him a lock to be a NHLer

 

[ACC1224]

Leafs are notorius for picking the "other" guy.
Columbus gets Johanson, we get his linemate Ross.
Toronto picks Biggs, Columbus takes his linemate Jenner.

Arizona gets Domi, Leafs get Marner.

 

[Trapper]

Arizona gets Domi, Leafs get Marner.

I hope so. In this case I feel Arizona got the other guy.
Mind you in this case Domi is still head and shoulders above Ross and Biggs and Domi really isn't the other guy in this case.

 

[hotpaws]

Leafs are notorius for picking the "other" guy.
Columbus gets Johanson, we get his linemate Ross.
Toronto picks Biggs, Columbus takes his linemate Jenner.

Burke kept taking grinder/energy players and kept saying he believed they have more talent/upside than other scouting reports believe .

Ross
Ryan
Biggs

all wasted picks , lets hope the goat isn't added to that list

 

[StuckOutHere]

Leafs are notorius for picking the "other" guy.
Columbus gets Johanson, we get his linemate Ross.
Toronto picks Biggs, Columbus takes his linemate Jenner.

To be fair, Biggs wasn't with Jenner in his draft year.

 

[Maple Leaf]

Bad drafting
Was supposed to be the next Tucker
Hopefully Mark Hunter knows what he is doing

 

[Daisy Jane]

Burke kept taking grinder/energy players and kept saying he believed they have more talent/upside than other scouting reports believe .

Ross
Ryan
Biggs

all wasted picks , lets hope the goat isn't added to that list

Sidney Crosby wouldn't have told the kid to not to Harvard and stick with the NHL if he was a bust

 

[StuckOutHere]

Burke kept taking grinder/energy players and kept saying he believed they have more talent/upside than other scouting reports believe .

Ross
Ryan
Biggs

all wasted picks , lets hope the goat isn't added to that list

The goat has elite defensive sense, is strong on the dot, big time size, and great pk ability. These listed guys had their perks, but didn't really have a niche to fall back on. Gauthier could learn to shoot and skate and become a Jarrett Stoll type player. If he doesn't he could probably be a David Steckel-type player next season. One thing I took from Dubas is he spoke about eliminating the pigeon-holing of players (he'll be a bottom six center or he'll be a third line winger type mentality). I think Gauthier goes to the AHL and they tell him to be Ryan Kesler (aka, the best he can be, not the best 3C he can be), give him the resources needed to achieve that goal, and see what comes out of the oven. He is basically patient X for this experiment because they have the physical freak, time to see what their coaches, trainers, etc can do.