GDT: Pro-Tank Thread X: Silver Medal Game (Lottery Transition Edition)

[The Drop]

I'll take either

 

[passive voice]

So now what.?
We put our hopes on some 18 old kid from the draft,to come in and save this sinking gong show.
Im praying,that we have a different managment team,heading to the draft.Enough is enough.

Don't be ridiculous. We put SOME of our hopes on some 18-year-old kid from the draft.

We put the rest on Bo.

 

[monster_bertuzzi]

Don't be ridiculous. We put SOME of our hopes on some 18-year-old kid from the draft.

We put the rest on Bo.

Hischier
Boeser
Horvat
Juolevi
Tryamkin
Demko
Stetcher
Virtanen
Baertschi

How about all of them?

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Cant wait til we end up drafting 6th

 

[Hammer79]

Cant wait til we end up drafting 6th

We can only drop to #5

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

We can only drop to #5

Vegas, correct me if im wrong

 

[Nucker101]

Vegas, correct me if im wrong

You are wrong, good sir. Vegas doesn't effect us, you can only move down a max of 3 spots no matter what and we have the higher starting spot.

 

[Hammer79]

Vegas, correct me if im wrong

Vegas gets exact same odds as third place finisher, NJ Devils.

 

[Love]

What a time to be alive

 

[LeftCoast]

The master plan is unfolding. Now we just have to win the lottery and SJ has to win the Cup.


I actually had a dream (day dream) the other day that the Leafs got edged out of the last wildcard spot in the east by Tampa, and then they won the draft lottery.

 

[Canucks LB]

Picking third would be so damn tricky, you just know the Benning wants a Center or Defenseman.

 

[Rick Rocket]

Hell yeah!!! We are in basically the best reasonable spot to enter the lottery... about time.

Hopefully we get a good player and some decent management and coaching to get us on the right path.

 

[GPNuck]

we are getting a pretty damn good player either way will be really happy with MIttelstadt or Hischier

 

[Derp Kassian]

Can someone hit us with some comparisons for the top 5??

 

[TheWolf*]

we are getting a pretty damn good player either way will be really happy with MIttelstadt or Hischier

If they get #1, there is no way they don't take Patrick. He's a Western guy with size and Benning will be all over that as his future #1 Centre. If they lose the lottery - which is statistically, the most likely scenario, they pick 5th. If they pick 5th, there is a good chance MIttlestadt will be gone, and Hirschier will almost certainly be gone. In short, there is no guarantee they will get either of those players.

 

[CanaFan]

Can someone hit us with some comparisons for the top 5??

From what I've gleaned on the main boards mostly ...

Nolan Patrick - Eric Staal'ish
Nico Hischier - Pavel Datsyuk'ish
Casey Mittelstadt - Patrick Kane'ish
Timmy Liljegren - Not sure exactly ... Keith Yandle'ish maybe?
Gabe Vilardi - Mark Stone'ish
Cody Glass - Mark Scheifele'ish

 

[Petrichor]

we are getting a pretty damn good player either way will be really happy with MIttelstadt or Hischier

If we get Hischier, I want him with Boeser right away.

The guy has Drouin written all over him and will be setting Boeser up like mad.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Hope we draft Hischier.

 

[Hansen]

Picking third would be so damn tricky, you just know the Benning wants a Center or Defenseman.

not really, Vilardi has separated himself from the pack.

The tricky aspect is ranking Mittelstadt/Pettersson and picking between them.

I dont see Makar or Liljegren as being options for us outside of 5 and someone having a godawful interview

 

[polarbearcub]

not really, Vilardi has separated himself from the pack.

The tricky aspect is ranking Mittelstadt/Pettersson and picking between them.

I dont see Makar or Liljegren as being options for us outside of 5 and someone having a godawful interview

I see draisaitl in vilardi

 

[Bleach Clean]

not really, Vilardi has separated himself from the pack.

How has Vilardi done this in your opinion?

I see draisaitl in vilardi

I don't see it. Vilardi reminds me of Monahan more than Draisaitl. Draisaitl is a natural playmaker. Vilardi is more about his shot and finding open spaces. Good board work.

 

[F A N]

It's time to think about winning the lottery. Who should we send? I say Weisbrod. He seems like a guy with luck on his side.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Well Team Tank won the best seed possible now it's up to the Hockey Gods to give us a lottery ticket win for once. I'm happy with Nico or Patrick but worst case scenario we drop to 5th there still is Gabriel Vilardi, Casey Mittelstadt, Martin Necas and Cody Glass in no particular order that I'd be happy with still. Were getting a top 6 player regardless where we pick and considering all these players have some faults I truthfully can't predict one much better then the rest.

 

[xtra]

I hate to say it but getting Patrick does set this team up to be an 2011 Boston light down the middle with Horvat and Patrick as our Bergeron/Krejici

Something about those two pairing up as our top 2 centers where either could play line 1 or 2 is exciting

 

[Hansen]

How has Vilardi done this in your opinion?





I don't see it. Vilardi reminds me of Monahan more than Draisaitl. Draisaitl is a natural playmaker. Vilardi is more about his shot and finding open spaces. Good board work.

I don't quite see the Draisaitl comparison myself, though Draisaitl's shot was a major aspect of his hyped skill set predraft, but I believe Vilardis skill set and tools present very significant upside, skating can be worked on. Mittelstadt could have more upside but the league disparity complicates things.

Vilardi is very good in tight and along the boards. Those kind of goals are ones to get in the NHL. Boeser is scoring because he gets the greasy ones in tight, not just because of his unbelievable shot at range.

Necas is very intriguing to me but again, he is in the Czech league which I know nothing about. The other top Czech players to make it recently have come out of foreign leagues to them.

To be honest I am very high on all the top 6 ranked centre men available and would be ecstatic to have any one of them. They all have solid upside. I'm not going to get my hopes up on winning the lottery.