Canuck Fan here
The Sens have an amazing collection of picks
Just looking over many of your first 4 picks
I can't help but see your excitement
I am not sure I want to see you with the 1st OA
But I will give you 2/3, just to be generous
I can't help but wonder why you dont go
ByField
Drysdale
Askarov
Now Askarrov is a wild card, and he might not be there, but I would use my 33rd to get there, if I could.
My reasoning would be, you would be getting the best players available in the entire draft, in their positions.
Hardest positions to fill..........1st line Center and 1st line Dman, with Chabot and Drysdale, you have 2 incedible
defensemen, that would be both elite. Askarov is simply just the best goalie, and his ranking has been pretty
consistant, through out the year.
My reasoning is also, with great respect, you will still be down next year, and you can go after wingers, which are
way easier to pick or trade for.
Agree or disagree....I am ok with it, it's your show, and good luck! You are going to have a great team in a couple of
years!
Cheers!
IMO, the consensus from HF Sens board is that there is no consensus in what we do at the draft, and even if there was a consensus today, it would be gone by tomorrow.
If I am reading the tea leafs correctly,
1 a large portion of fans would go with BPA no matter what, there is a sub-set of those fans that have very close groupings for some players and would probably be agreeable with allowing "need" to figure into the decision making.
2 the Sens have very few high end forwards to fill out a 1st line and would want to go with 2 forwards with the first 2 picks.
3 RD is an area of weakness for the Sens so would be interested in Drysdale as he projects to be a very good puck moving D. This is balanced by the general acknowledgement that the Sens already have a number of small/lacking in physicality puck moving D in Chabot, Brannstrom, Wolanin and would prefer not to take Drysdale. Sanderson has been discussed as an option as he is more physical and might grow his offensive game, then again the above D are all lefties so the debate then became whether we would force a LD to play his offside.
4 the Sens will likely finish in the lower part of the 2020-2021 season so should have an opportunity to draft well in what is perceived to be a better D draft, so other than taking some more physical/potential higher end D in the 2nd round this year, we would save our 1st round picks this year for forwards.
5 although the Sens have quite a few potentially good C, there is concern that Logan Brown won't develop into a 1C so we should be looking at picking up a potential 1C in this draft, Byfield, Perfetti, Rossi, Stutzel (if he is one). The Sens have Norris, White, Pinto but none of them will likely become true 1Cs.
6 as for Askarov, in general no one would look at him for the 1st 2 picks and some are inclined to say you don't take a goalie in the first round especially since we have a very good goalie pipeline. There are a few that believe you take the chance with a potential franchise goalie and if he falls to our 3rd pick you would have a few more on board with taking Askarov as the BPA.
7 Sens generally draft well, so trust Mann/Dorion to pick the best players for the Sens. Other than those that believe Dorion is too safe and character focused and should take more chances swinging for the fences.
