Favorite 1st round pick
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DennisReynolds
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Royal Canuck
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The fact they we have 3 guys with 96% of votes out of 6 and those 3 are around or above 20 votes just means our prospect pool is much better.
Hopefully we can add another 2015 1st round pick and have 2 1st round picks in the next years draft as well.
Loving this.
For me its
Horvat
Virtanen
Hunter
Jensen
Gaunce
McCann
Hopefully we can add another 2015 1st round pick and have 2 1st round picks in the next years draft as well.
Loving this.
For me its
Horvat
Virtanen
Hunter
Jensen
Gaunce
McCann
keslerburrows
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Yeah it is true. Jack Eichel is 2 months younger than Virtanen. For him to have 45 G's and over 100 PIMS was insane for his age.
DoubleTrouble
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BenningHurtsMySoul
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BenningHurtsMySoul
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Shinkaruk
was stoked he was around so late for us (and that we made the pick)
not stoked hearing all the trade rumours with him.
Hodgson was probably my favorite recent first round pick though *with Luc a close second (RIP
)
was stoked he was around so late for us (and that we made the pick)
not stoked hearing all the trade rumours with him.
Hodgson was probably my favorite recent first round pick though *with Luc a close second (RIP
)
Hansen
tyler motte simp
Man are we lucky to have all these options. 6 1st round picks in the past 3 years and however many months. Not to mention the last 4 of which all being, arguably, top 15 talents in their respective drafts. (Could probably include Gaunce too with him being ranked 12~ by some)
Awesome variety in each players talents and skillsets. Honestly all we need for the cherry on the cake is a potential 1st line Centreman, which happen to be the prize for the bad teams in the upcoming draft
Awesome variety in each players talents and skillsets. Honestly all we need for the cherry on the cake is a potential 1st line Centreman, which happen to be the prize for the bad teams in the upcoming draft
Baby Pettersson
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Just reviewing the 2013 draft day thread. Laughing at all the reactions when we traded Schneider. Even funnier when a good chunk of us were praying we draft Shinkaruk with the pick. Man were we lucky that day!
TheWanderer
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LovemyNucks
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I wasn't very pumped when Horvat was drafted because we just traded Schneider at that time and I didn't really know much about him. However, though the trade still pains me a bit, I have to say that he's my favorite at this moment with his development curve and the respect he gets around the junior leagues for his defensive work while being excellent offensively. Every time I hear about him, I just remember that absurd stat where his QoC this year was fifth in the league while still improving his PPG to approximately 1.3. Impressive.
I was initially super pumped with Shinkaruk who dropped over 10 spots on the draft to us. Still really high on him and didn't want him packaged off to Florida for Reinhart. I'm hoping that he'll take the next step in the AHL next season.
Finally, I was pretty pumped when Gaunce was picked because there was a pretty motley group of players left at that point. I didn't like Collberg, or Samuelsson and I didn't want to draft a defencemen in Finn. Also he has a very cerebral approach to the game but still has that physical element and sounds to me that he can be excellent in almost any system because of the way he approaches the game. I have an affinity towards players who project the intelligence and the methodical way of approaching concepts and Gaunce is a good example based on his interviews. He needs to improve his skating but I think if he can improve his footspeed, he has the potential to become excellent to us.
I was initially super pumped with Shinkaruk who dropped over 10 spots on the draft to us. Still really high on him and didn't want him packaged off to Florida for Reinhart. I'm hoping that he'll take the next step in the AHL next season.
Finally, I was pretty pumped when Gaunce was picked because there was a pretty motley group of players left at that point. I didn't like Collberg, or Samuelsson and I didn't want to draft a defencemen in Finn. Also he has a very cerebral approach to the game but still has that physical element and sounds to me that he can be excellent in almost any system because of the way he approaches the game. I have an affinity towards players who project the intelligence and the methodical way of approaching concepts and Gaunce is a good example based on his interviews. He needs to improve his skating but I think if he can improve his footspeed, he has the potential to become excellent to us.
Pip
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Also picking Gaunce. It's a treat to watch him play, such an underrated style in which you can tell that he thinks the game at a high level
