Habs draft combine June 7th

dcal64

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Timmins mentioned something about having a draft combine of their own on June 7th, with draft eligible players, plus players for AHL.

Did anyone hear anything about any player being invited?
 

sandviper

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Timmins mentioned something about having a draft combine of their own on June 7th, with draft eligible players, plus players for AHL.

Did anyone hear anything about any player being invited?

"It's not only draft prospects [coming to the combine in Montreal], but players, especially in the Q, that we may have interest in moving forward - whether it's on an American League contract, potential NHL contract or a free-agent signing down the road," mentioned Timmins

Trevor Timmins talks personality assessment tool, overseas combine


I would assume Svechnikov, Zadina, Kotkaniemi, Bouchard, Dobson, Hughes, Wahlstrom, Tkachuk and Boqvist were invited. Would also guess possible 2nd round targets like Hillis, Wise and others who may be ranked in the 30-45 range.
 

dcal64

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I would imagine it's for players who were not invited/did not attend the main combine.

You are correct, they invited 28 players who did not attend the combine (13 from the Q), it's closed to the public, so not sure if any player name will leak out.
 

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They didn't release the player names but I'm sure it will get out.
 
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28 North American based players, including 13 from the Q? I'll give it my best guess:
1. Semyon Der-Arguchintsev (OHL)
2. Dmitri Zavgorodny (QMJHL)
3. Kyle Topping (WHL)
4. Vladislav Kotkov (QMJHL)
5. Spencer Stastney (NTDP)
6. Wyatte Wylie (WHL)
7. Ryan O'Reilly (USHL)
8. Yegor Sokolov (QMJHL)
9. Alexander Steeves (USHL)
10. Austin Wong (AJHL)
11. Nathan Dunkley (OHL)
12. Brendan Budy (BCHL)
13. Vladislav Mikhalchuk (WHL)
14. Marc del Gaizo (USHL)
15. Pavel Gogolev (OHL)
16. Shawn Boudrias (QMJHL)
17. Thomas Ethier (QMJHL)
18. Mac Hollowel (OHL)
19. Radim Salda (QMJHL)
20. Scott Perunovich (NCAA)
21. Thomas Gregoire (QMJHL)
22. Olivier Galipeau (QMJHL)
23. Michal Ivan (QMJHL)
24. Adam McCormick (QMJHL)
25. Joel Teasdale (QMJHL)
26. Nicholas Welsh (QMJHL)
27. Danil Miromanov (QMJHL)
28. Ryan Chyzowski (WHL)
 

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"It's not only draft prospects [coming to the combine in Montreal], but players, especially in the Q, that we may have interest in moving forward - whether it's on an American League contract, potential NHL contract or a free-agent signing down the road," mentioned Timmins

Trevor Timmins talks personality assessment tool, overseas combine


I would assume Svechnikov, Zadina, Kotkaniemi, Bouchard, Dobson, Hughes, Wahlstrom, Tkachuk and Boqvist were invited. Would also guess possible 2nd round targets like Hillis, Wise and others who may be ranked in the 30-45 range.

From article:

"Players fill out a personality and behavior assessment during the season as well as a player information file. Then, Dr. David Scott [a consultant in sport psychology] takes all that information and he comes with us into the interview process and he's highlighted red flags," shared Timmins on Saturday afternoon at HarborCenter. "Maybe it came up that a player lacks confidence in his assessment and he will devise questions specifically on confidence issues and try to flesh that out and see whether it matches what we're seeing in person… and then whether that matches up with what we see on the ice."

That will fix our "players lack confidence" motto. If only Subban was still on the team...
 

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28 North American based players, including 13 from the Q? I'll give it my best guess:
1. Semyon Der-Arguchintsev (OHL)
2. Dmitri Zavgorodny (QMJHL)
3. Kyle Topping (WHL)
4. Vladislav Kotkov (QMJHL)
5. Spencer Stastney (NTDP)
6. Wyatte Wylie (WHL)
7. Ryan O'Reilly (USHL)
8. Yegor Sokolov (QMJHL)
9. Alexander Steeves (USHL)
10. Austin Wong (AJHL)
11. Nathan Dunkley (OHL)
12. Brendan Budy (BCHL)
13. Vladislav Mikhalchuk (WHL)
14. Marc del Gaizo (USHL)
15. Pavel Gogolev (OHL)
16. Shawn Boudrias (QMJHL)
17. Thomas Ethier (QMJHL)
18. Mac Hollowel (OHL)
19. Radim Salda (QMJHL)
20. Scott Perunovich (NCAA)
21. Thomas Gregoire (QMJHL)
22. Olivier Galipeau (QMJHL)
23. Michal Ivan (QMJHL)
24. Adam McCormick (QMJHL)
25. Joel Teasdale (QMJHL)
26. Nicholas Welsh (QMJHL)
27. Danil Miromanov (QMJHL)
28. Ryan Chyzowski (WHL)

Thomas Grégoire was signed by the Sharks a couple of weeks ago, you can scratch that name off your list ;)
 

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Don’t think Zadina was at the combine yesterday. He’s in Santa Barbara today...

none of the big guys was there..

The combine in Montreal Habs invited 27 players who were NOT at the NHL combine last weekend...

These 27 players invited are guys who might go undrafted ....there looking for a diamond in the rough kinda thing...
 

Adam Michaels

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none of the big guys was there..

The combine in Montreal Habs invited 27 players who were NOT at the NHL combine last weekend...

These 27 players invited are guys who might go undrafted ....there looking for a diamond in the rough kinda thing...

They were 28 players and like you said, they were players who weren't invited to the NHL Combine. But they could still invite players who were at the NHL Combine for another interview or have their own medical staff run tests.
 
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MONTREAL - The Canadiens continue their prep work ahead of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft by hosting a combine of their own at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard on Thursday.
Twenty-eight prospects will be in attendance for medicals, interviews, and fitness evaluations at the Habs' practice facility, including 13 players from the QMJHL. The event is not open to the public.
None of the players on-site in Brossard were invited to participate in the 2018 NHL Scouting Combine last week in Buffalo.
Some of the players attending may not be drafted at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.
In such cases, the Canadiens will have collected data that will aid in the future decision-making process of potentially signing these players as unrestricted free agents, whether it be to AHL or NHL contracts.
 

Habaneros

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On Friday, Trevor Timmins and his staff will travel to Stockholm, Sweden where they'll be staging another combine featuring 16 European prospects. The overseas event will be a first for the Canadiens.In both cases, the goal is to gather more information about potential hopefuls that the Habs' brass didn't have the opportunity to interview or collect medical and fitness testing data with in Western New York.
 

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The goal of the combine is for so we don't pick these types......


2018 Buffalo combine = $250 -$1000 dollar steak dinner

Montreal 2018 Combime = food bank or $ 1 $2 $3 dollar store...Maybe McDonald's drive thru..Lotto649...or odds of getting stuck by a lightning ...
 
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