Toggle sidebar

Potential Franchise players in the 2012 Draft

Fearless Leaf*

Guest
Who do u think are some of the potential "Superstars" in the next years Draft?

IMO, Nail Yakupov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Alex Galchenyuk, Ryan Murray, Nick Ebert, and Griffin Reinhart are a lock for the next potential Franchise players.
Click to read more...
 

rick3652

Registered User
Aug 18, 2009
835
1
Toronto
Bullet Proof said:
Who do u think are some of the potential "Superstars" in the next years Draft?

IMO, Nail Yakupov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Alex Galchenyuk, Ryan Murray, Nick Ebert, and Griffin Reinhart are a lock for the next potential Franchise players.
Click to expand...

there has only been a few Franchise players ever in the NHL. the last one was Crosby.
 
Futon

Futon

Registered User
Jun 28, 2010
281
0
Bullet Proof said:
Who do u think are some of the potential "Superstars" in the next years Draft?

IMO, Nail Yakupov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Alex Galchenyuk, Ryan Murray, Nick Ebert, and Griffin Reinhart are a lock for the next potential Franchise players.
Click to expand...

Right now I would agree, but a ton can change regarding prospects in a year. There will be players drafted high in 2012 that most haven't even heard of yet. So the responses in this thread won't really have any merit at this point.
 
SmellOfVictory

SmellOfVictory

Registered User
Jun 3, 2011
10,959
653
Franchise player: a player around which you build a franchise. As such there are at least 30 franchise players in the league at any given moment. Realistically when we look at talent levels, there are probably more who are on a similar level.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

rick3652

Registered User
Aug 18, 2009
835
1
Toronto
Bullet Proof said:
Drew Doughty, John Tavares, and Matt Duchene are not Franchise players?
Click to expand...

no they are not. it takes about 5 years for a player to be a franchise player. i do not think anyone of these will ever be one. They may be the team best player but not a franchise player they are very few of those ever.
 
Jesus Christ Horburn

Jesus Christ Horburn

Registered User
Aug 22, 2008
13,942
1
Since the lockout, the only players I would consider franchise players are:

-Ovechkin (2004)
-Malkin (2004)
-Crosby (2005)
-Toews (2006)
-P. Kane (2007)
-Stamkos (2008)
-Doughty (2008)
-Tavares (2009)
-Duchene (2009)
-Hall (2010)

There's usually 1 or maybe 2 franchise players in each draft class. Yakupov I could see, and even then I question if a Russian player (aside from Ovechkin and Malkin) can be the face of the franchise.
 

Fearless Leaf*

Guest
rick3652 said:
no they are not. it takes about 5 years for a player to be a franchise player. i do not think anyone of these will ever be one. They may be the team best player but not a franchise player they are very few of those ever.
Click to expand...

Well let me ask u this then, how many players do you consider a Franchise player from the 2003 draft? I bet u can think about 10 right? I think this draft will have similar affect as the 2003 draft.
 
scoutman1

scoutman1

Twitter - scoutman33
Feb 19, 2005
3,223
545
www.facebook.com
Prophet of Glennie said:
You guys sure have strict view of franchise players.
Click to expand...

not everyone, a franchise player is someone who can carry the franchise not a generational talent...if you are looking at that then there is only 2 in the NHL Crosby and Ovechkin and only very few in history then...guys like Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr are I guess are the only ones in history really then lol....IMO guys like Toews, Doughty, Stamkos, the Sedins, Malkin, Jarome Iginla etc etc are Franchise players but not generational talents.
 

Big Ed

~
Feb 5, 2011
13,699
406
scoutman1 said:
not everyone, a franchise player is someone who can carry the franchise not a generational talent...if you are looking at that then there is only 2 in the NHL Crosby and Ovechkin and only very few in history then...guys like Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr are I guess are the only ones in history really then lol....IMO guys like Toews, Doughty, Stamkos, the Sedins, Malkin, Jarome Iginla etc etc are Franchise players but not generational talents.
Click to expand...
Lidstrom's not a generational talent? I'd say he is...
 
YEGJuniorFan

YEGJuniorFan

Registered User
Dec 3, 2009
3,253
158
Edmonton
I think Yakupov and Murray have franchise potential, Grigorenko has the talent but I have heard there are some concerns about his intensity? Ebert, Galchenyuk, Reinhart, Trouba all have star potential
 
theIceWookie

theIceWookie

#LeafHysteriaAlert
Dec 19, 2010
9,039
30
Canada
rt said:
The three Russians at the top are all going to be tremendous hockey players. Especially Nail and Grigorenko.
Click to expand...

Glachenyuk isn't really Russian. Russian last name, Belarussian father (not Russia, just at one point in time was a Soviet satellite state), American citzenship
 
Bjorn Le

Bjorn Le

Hobocop
May 17, 2010
19,592
609
Martinaise, Revachol
rt said:
Not really. Listen to the kid speak English. He has a very, very heavy accent. It's not like hes Viktor Tikhonov.
Click to expand...

Because he speant the vast majority of his life in Russia (Was still a todler when he left the US and only played a year of minor hockey in Chicago before moving to Sarnia with his family). Which is why I'm still surprised he has any notion of playing for the US as theres nothing about his life that indicates any actual attachment to the US, even though it's definitely a hockey move and not a personal move. Usually even with a hockey decision like that theres some personal attachment. He definitely plays like a Russian and no matter what his decision you can bet they're going to be referred to as The Three Russians.

Anyways theres a lot of potential franchise players in this draft. So much top end talent it's really outstanding.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Ad

Latest posts

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad

Top Bottom