GDT: Draft Day 2016
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Lampedampe
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- Feb 26, 2015
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Syckle78
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Jordan Sambrook
Enough with the Ds, I want the next Datsyuk...
Why have the next datsyuk when you can have the next Lidstrom?
Shaman464
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Syckle78
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What's not to be excited about? They took a crap load of defensemen with size and skating ability and hope they develop. Outside of that I really like the sound of Smith.
TheOctopusKid
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I would agree but there are a lot of positives here. I like how they have taken on a slew of defensive projects and hopefully one of them pans out. I was happy the way that Holland was able to move Datsyuk's contract off the books to better position us for July AND still nab us a 2nd out of it.
At the end of the day, nothing we would've drafted today would have been able to play or make an impact for the Wings next season, so we might as well take high potential/high-risk guys.
The only way today could've gone better is if we found a way to move Howard and free up that much more cap space. But, I'll take the last two days, see if we can win the Stamkos sweepstakes and keep an outside hope that we find a way to trade for at least a solid 2nd pairing defenseman
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Shaman464
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2-5, except Smith actually aren't bad picks, and are in line with what my expectations were: boom-bust PMD. Smith seems like a huge reach though for a forward that likely will be another Callahan.
How is Smith a reach in the second round? Second round picks don't look like sure fire top six forwards on paper.
Shaman464
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Because Detroit has had players and currently has players in their system a lot like him and they never seem to get called up? If Callahan had made Detroit, I could see it, but players like Smith just don't fit the big club. That and there was a really good PMD selected just afterwards?
Syckle78
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Detroit is clearly going in a different direction with their forward picks. This guy seems to fit the mold of them wanting to get bigger and have some edge. It's a solid second round pick.
The Zetterberg Era
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Smith is a lot better than Callahan, much closer in skill to his former teammate and one of our favorite prospects in Tyler Bertuzzi.
Mitch Callahan went a lot lower than Smith for a reason, pretty big reach to compare the two. Callahan's injuries and just average skating have also kept him down as well.
That last sentence is absolutely correct. Why, however, would the Wings spend a good second-round pick on a kid that would never fit within their organization? This team is clearly moving in a different direction. Callahan hasn't gotten a true shot because he isn't a good enough skater for his size. Callahan and Smith are two different prospects and should not be treated as one in the same.
Shaman464
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Haven't read much, but following the postings on the main board there were a few posts knocking smith's skating.
Shaman464
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I had that very same thought. We are all poorer for having lost him as a member of the DRW community.
