I forgot about this guy
Even worse when you realize he was our 1st pick in that Draft thanks to the Risto debacle. Worse still when you realize we passed on Ville Koivunen, who of course ended up selected by Carolina.
It was a weak draft. I wouldn't concern yourself, slim pickings and all. Chuck Fletcher is an excellent drafter, I've heard it said many times. And you can be sure all his blank check resources went into this draft.
Well, actually I'd frame it as passing directly on Stankoven, who was picked 1 after, and is also a smaller RW with shooting as his primary talent. That's a 1-for-1 evaluation call with massive overlap, and Stankoven looked like a top 15 pick on paper, while Tuomaala looked like a 2nd round risk/reward pick. Stankoven has almost double the points of anyone on his team right now and is the most productive player in the WHL.
Koivunen isn't perfect, especially in the athletics department, but he played on the same team as Tuomaala in Finnish juniors and the u18s. Getting players on the same team (even linemates!) wrong just can't happen. Tuomaala has the flashier tools -- I don't know if you've picked up on Fletcher needing new jorts every time he sees one dimensional speed+shot -- but I felt somewhat strongly that Koivunen (who had better junior stats) was a much smarter player. Maybe he's a floor pick, but that's a realistic floor after his D+1. Someone like Pastujov I had roughly on the same tier as Stankoven, and he went 20 picks after.
Tuomaala was the one player they selected with any reasonable skill-set (with the exception of their probably now best pick, 7th rounder McLaughlin, who played at the Hill School and was probably a throw-you-a-bone pick). It's almost incomprehensible how poor and lazy they handled the 2021 draft.
Raty was the guy for me at the time... Stankoven 2nd I guess.
It was a weak draft. I wouldn't concern yourself, slim pickings and all. Chuck Fletcher is an excellent drafter, I've heard it said many times. And you can be sure all his blank check resources went into this draft.
Well, actually I'd frame it as passing directly on Stankoven, who was picked 1 after, and is also a smaller RW with shooting as his primary talent. That's a 1-for-1 evaluation call with massive overlap, and Stankoven looked like a top 15 pick on paper, while Tuomaala looked like a 2nd round risk/reward pick. Stankoven has almost double the points of anyone on his team right now and is the most productive player in the WHL.
Koivunen isn't perfect, especially in the athletics department, but he played on the same team as Tuomaala in Finnish juniors and the u18s. Getting players on the same team (even linemates!) wrong just can't happen. Tuomaala has the flashier tools -- I don't know if you've picked up on Fletcher needing new jorts every time he sees one dimensional speed+shot -- but I felt somewhat strongly that Koivunen (who had better junior stats) was a much smarter player. Maybe he's a floor pick, but that's a realistic floor after his D+1. Someone like Pastujov I had roughly on the same tier as Stankoven, and he went 20 picks after.
Tuomaala was the one player they selected with any reasonable skill-set (with the exception of their probably now best pick, 7th rounder McLaughlin, who played at the Hill School and was probably a throw-you-a-bone pick). It's almost incomprehensible how poor and lazy they handled the 2021 draft.
I can't believe they didn't get a single 2022 pick. I thought at minimum they would have recouped the 2nd rounder from the Ghost trade.
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2020-21 | Karpat | SM-liiga | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2021-22 | Sport Vaasa | SM-liiga | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
2021-22 | Jukurit Mikkeli | SM-liiga | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
2021-22 | Lehigh Valley Phantoms* | AHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Who is this guyThe Eggman doesnt like the 2022 Draft.View attachment 527809
Who is this guy
What year was it that St. Louis did not draft anyone? Seems like the Flyers did it in 2021 but with anonymous generic names like Samson. Do they really exist or are they out of a Kafka or Camus novel? I guess we will find out in 2022 training camp.
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka
In this case the player wasn’t interested in what the Flyers wanted development wise.Is it a good idea to drop a development project into a horrible development system?
I'll bet I will be told it is!
Hard to judge - on the one hand, a player having confidence is good, but bad judgement is bad.In this case the player wasn’t interested in what the Flyers wanted development wise.
In this case the player wasn’t interested in what the Flyers wanted development wise.