Prospect Info: NHL Draft, June 27-28, 2014
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Unfriendly Ghost
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So there's no way Babcock was in charge here. They'd all be RH shots if he had his way.
snailderby
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Five C, 1 LW, and 1G. Nice.
C - Larkin - 6'0" - 190
C - Turgeon - 6'1" - 198
C - Ehn - 6'3" - 181
G - Perry - 6'2" - 189
LW - Vahatalo - 6'5" - 191
C - Holmstrom - 6'0 - 198
C - Kadeykin - 6'3" - 213
C - Larkin - 6'0" - 190
C - Turgeon - 6'1" - 198
C - Ehn - 6'3" - 181
G - Perry - 6'2" - 189
LW - Vahatalo - 6'5" - 191
C - Holmstrom - 6'0 - 198
C - Kadeykin - 6'3" - 213
mindfly
Happy camper!
Unfriendly Ghost
Kasper
I was initially kind of underwhelmed, but I'm coming around. I think the only pick I'm iffy on is Turgeon, and that's because Anton Karlsson was still in the board.
mindfly
Happy camper!
Speaking of Russian...any news on Malykhin? Remember Wings were linked with him and he wanted to come over.
Worth a training camp/preseason shot?
Unfriendly Ghost
Kasper
Signed a 3 year deal in the KHL. Turns out there wasn't a ton of NHL interest in him as a right-now player.
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waltdetroit
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Unfriendly Ghost
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The NHL is back to its usual size queen ways. They were away from that for a while, but they couldn't stay away. Couple that with the fact that he's Russian and you've got a player everybody wants but nobody will spend anything for.
I'm excited for the size we have been drafting don't get me wrong, but it seems as though we're drafting prospects purely for size with a 3rd/4th line center ceiling?
Run the Jewels
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Is that the team where Hakan is on the board? If so it is pretty interesting. While I'm not crazy about the top of our draft class I do like focusing on organizational needs and drafting a bunch of centers.
Hopefully one turns into a solid middle 6 and another turns into a reliable 4th line player. That's probably about average for a draft class. In fact over all of our drafts since 2007 we've turned out one middle 6 center and one 4th line/depth center over that time.
Our previous center prospects:
Sheahan - looks like legit middle 6 center
Janmark - looks like he'll move to wing
Athanasiou - looks like he'll move to wing
Ferraro - not looking NHL caliber
Aubry - looks like career AHL'er
Nestrasil - career AHL'er
Nyquist - scoring line winger
Andersson - 4th line/depth center
So if we can get two players out of this draft class that is focused largely on center we'll do very well.
InjuredChoker
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well they could turn out better than that but big guys that go this late have their issues obviously.. there has been clear change in philosophy imo but this happened before wright came in.
good to see them take flyers at centers but these look like mostly low upside guys. hope they pan out better than that.
snailderby
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Run the Jewels
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20 year old center, put up 23 points in the KHL and lead his team in scoring. And he was on my wish list too, unranked by CSS
Love these three last picks. Great stuff.
Yep, these are always the ones I enjoy on draft weekend.
GoAwayDanCleary
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So apparently our plan is to ice the biggest team in the league, regardless of skill. I don't mind some size picks, but what happened to all those skill picks like in 11?
snailderby
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Yeah, I like the last three picks too. Maybe none of them will pan out, but at least they've got potential.20 year old center, put up 23 points in the KHL and lead his team in scoring. And he was on my wish list too, unranked by CSS
Love these three last picks. Great stuff.
Unfriendly Ghost
Kasper
I think this draft happened largely in response to that. They want to balance out their roster with big two-way centers to take care of their elite scoring wingers.
No no I obviously hope they do too, but I'm just disappointed that we essentially took 5-6 identical bottom six center potential players. Larkin looks like a dependable center and a great character kid, I'm just saying that if we were planning on stocking up on defensive-minded centers for the most of our picks, maybe we could have taken a gamble on someone with some higher offensive potential with our 15th pick?
That being said, I like our last few picks and I like Larkin as well, wish the prospects the best, if there's one thing Red Wings management knows how to do, it's draft.
