GDT: Draft Day GDT, put your mildly happy but still really pissed overall face on

[OrrNumber4]

He scored 0 points in 5 games in that league.

Ah, I suppose he was loaned to a Hockeyettan team...

 

[sharks_dynasty]

I predict we will get an overage free agent with the 7th like Raska last year.

 

[The Nemesis]

Last Sharks pick is up in 4 picks. I fully expect by this point that it's going to get traded for a later 7th and a 7th next year.

 

[timorous me]

I have no clue who any of these guys are, but I have to think that with the past 18 months being such a shit show and competitive games being so hard to come by for many of them, that there are a lot more high-upside sleeper picks in the later rounds than we'd normally have--guys whose stock could have really shot up if they'd had the proper chances.

 

[Stewie Griffin]

Doug Wilson Jr. has changed our drafting in such a positive way. I actually get excited with the guys we take now. I LOVE the Eklund and Gaudreau picks. Too bad we didn't have a second.

 

[Stewie Griffin]

We went really OHL heavy this year....and keeping in mind most of those guys never played, it'll either pay off big time or blow up in our face.

 

[The Nemesis]

We went really OHL heavy this year....and keeping in mind most of those guys never played, it'll either pay off big time or blow up in our face.

Well, it can't be any worse than 2013. At least these picks seem like "swing for the fences" ones rather than Burke-esque 'we like the guy he plays hard and he does the little things" code for "he's a low-ceiling scrub that probably won't break out because we like low-ceiling scrubs"

 

[The Nemesis]

We gots a Russian

D Evgenii Kashnikov

 

[TheBeard]

Doug Wilson Jr. has changed our drafting in such a positive way. I actually get excited with the guys we take now. I LOVE the Eklund and Gaudreau picks. Too bad we didn't have a second.

It’s all the same until they make the show.

 

[The Nemesis]

Kashnikov is 6'4 198, Eliteprospects lists him as a D/F and he spent last year split between Gatineau (8 games with 1G, 4A, 5P) and Novomoskovsk of the MHL (10 pts, 5+5, in 22 games.)

The D/F thing is intriguing.

Russian Brent Burns confirmed.

Also inconsistent spelling on his first name. It's one of Evgeni, Evgenii with two "i"s, or Yvgeni with a "Y"

 

[tealzamboni]

Well, it can't be any worse than 2013. At least these picks seem like "swing for the fences" ones rather than Burke-esque 'we like the guy he plays hard and he does the little things" code for "he's a low-ceiling scrub that probably won't break out because we like low-ceiling scrubs"

It seems like Caldwell, Laroque, McCue, Gilmartin, and even Eklund trends towards work hard vs. moonshot.

 

[Patty Ice]

THN had Gaudreay as their 61st prospect. I'll write up his whole breakdown when I can get onto my computer but the best case player comp is Jordan Binnington

A lot of reports have him with Carey Price as a comp. I like that best case comp better.

 

[sharks_dynasty]

It seems like Caldwell, Laroque, McCue, Gilmartin, and even Eklund trends towards work hard vs. moonshot.

Aiming for the Ferraro mold. High energy and motor.

 

[The Nemesis]

A lot of reports have him with Carey Price as a comp. I like that best case comp better.

But Binnington won a cup. What has Price done?

 

[tealzamboni]

Aiming for the Ferraro mold. High energy and motor.

= ploffs team

 

[CupfortheSharks]

Last years draft class was Brandon Coe and the 8 dwarfs. This year is the Wolfgang Van Halen draft because they have some great names.

 

[tealzamboni]

Kashnikov is 6'4 198, Eliteprospects lists him as a D/F and he spent last year split between Gatineau (8 games with 1G, 4A, 5P) and Novomoskovsk of the MHL (10 pts, 5+5, in 22 games.)

The D/F thing is intriguing.

Russian Brent Burns confirmed.

Also inconsistent spelling on his first name. It's one of Evgeni, Evgenii with two "i"s, or Yvgeni with a "Y"

looks like a John to me

 

[The Nemesis]

That was a terrible segue.

 

[Patty Ice]

But Binnington won a cup. What has Price done?

Signed a contract worthy of Doug Wilson?

 

[The Nemesis]

DW in full DW mode talking about the class (and Adin Hill). So many words, so little actual content.

 

[themelkman]

So a bunch of super skilled forwards, and a ton of physical all defense d. Weird but I guess we will see

 

[Pavelski2112]

As much as I'm starting to hate DW, he's still a charming mf

 

[The Nemesis]

DW: "We know we have a good hockey team."


Uh..............?

 

[tealzamboni]

Seems that last season's shutdowns caused the Sharks to focus on kind of an "overager - 1 year" strategy. Any possible bump in performance will be because they missed a development year vs. later bloomer.

 

[corbanSOG]

Sounds like the draft theme for the Sharks this year was Eklund, big defensemen, and OHL guys nobody has heard of or seen play in a year.