Steals of the Draft

[Legionnaire]

K'Andre Miller. Rasmus Sandin. Akil Thomas. Jake Wise. Ryan Merkley.

 

[TheMadHatTrick]

Steals round 2-3:
33 - Jonatan Berggren, LW
54 - Benoit-Olivier Groulx, C/LW
61 - Ivan Morozov, C
69 - Jake Wise, C
74 - Niklas Nordgren, RW
79 - Blake McLaughlin, LW

Steals rounds 4-7:
97 - Allan McShane, C
112 - Jack St. Ivany, RD
128 - Cole Fonstad, C
148 - Simon Johansson, RD
202 - Shamil Shmakov, G
205 - Marcus Westfalt, C

Undrafted:
-German Grachyov, RW

 

[M2Beezy]

Farabee
Berggren
Woo
Tychonick
Hallander

 

[DieTomi]

Oliver Wahlstrom
Rasmus Sandin
Jett Woo
Akil Thomas

 

[Frolov 6'3]

33 - Jonatan Berggren, LW

Is my only steal.

 

[Hatter of the Beach]

Players I had ranked higher than where they went
Veleno
Jake Wise
Bode Wilde
Akil Thomas

33 - Jonatan Berggren, LW

Is my only steal.

As a Wings fan who knows very little about him, seeing his name all over the this thread makes me happy.

 

[Habs888]

Berggren,wise,Simon Johansson

 

[Frk It]

Calen Addison, Jake Wise, Allan McShane, Ty Smith

Homer picks: Veleno + Berggren

 

[boredmale]

Farabee

How exactly is Farabee a steal?

 

[novon04]

Jesper Sellgren in the 6th round could be a good pick.

 

[DatDude44]

Berggren and Shafigullin.

I luv Berggren.

 

[DatDude44]

How exactly is Farabee a steal?

He's probably just excited about landing him as I would be as well IF WE DIDN'T TRADE THEM THAT PICK

 

[New Jersey Devils]

Woo, Wise, and Wilde. Islanders had such a phenomenal draft.

 

[M2Beezy]

How exactly is Farabee a steal?

I ranked him around 8/9 BPA and think will be that or higher in a few years. Your right he was picked where was suppose to go i just think will end up better. Have been a big fan

 

[Mogo]

Adam Mascherin could turn out to be a big steal if he actually signs with us

I heard he doesn't like the color green

 

[Tonystretcher]

HF ‘steals’ from 2016.

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/steals-of-2016-draft.2194961/page-2

Crazy how accurate consensus HF opinions usually are in hindsight. NHL GMs can be so dumb

 

[CodeE]

I think quite a few players taken in the early 2nd will turn out better than those in the late 1st

Samuelsson, Berggren, Noel, Ylonen, McIssac, Woo, McLeod, Wilde

 

[bl02]

Khovanov
Veleno
Wise
Pajuniemi
Ginning
Kurashev
Thomas

Can I ask what you like about Pujuniemi? whats his potential ceiling?

 

[Michoulicious]

HF ‘steals’ from 2016.

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/steals-of-2016-draft.2194961/page-2

You realize that thread was created a year after the draft... A lot easier to call for "steals" then.

The average fan is gonna call a player a steal if he is drafted a lot later than what was projected on public rankings since they never saw most players outside the first round play... Or maybe a few highlights if said player was playing with better/highly touted players (a la Jack Wise).

 

[Michoulicious]

Crazy how accurate consensus HF opinions usually are in hindsight. NHL GMs can be so dumb

Not so fast prasing HF, friend.

Thread was created a year after the draft. Too lazy to dig out if one was made just after the draft, but I've got a feeling a lot of those "steals" are going to be interesting...

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

Crazy how accurate consensus HF opinions usually are in hindsight. NHL GMs can be so dumb

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/expansion-draft-thread-ii.2359255/page-30

 

[AvatarAang]

Can I ask what you like about Pujuniemi? whats his potential ceiling?

k I'm pretty sure that's what you get when Puljujarvi and Kotkaniemi do this

 

[Tonystretcher]

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/expansion-draft-thread-ii.2359255/page-30

Didn’t realize the thread was made a year later.. Also, I still don’t think Mcphee did that great of a job in the expansion draft

 

[Michoulicious]

Didn’t realize the thread was made a year later.. Also, I still don’t think Mcphee did that great of a job in the expansion draft

Here for 2016: most people loved Edmonton draft... Let's just say it does not look that good 2 years later.

https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/2016-nhl-draft-winners-and-losers.2096387/

Jesse Puljujarvi
Tyler Benson
Markus Niemelainen
Matt Cairns
Filip Berglund
Aapeli Rasanen

 

[docbenton]

Addison, Gustafsson, Nordgren. Addison gambles a little too much but otherwise I think he's better all-round and quicker thinking/more skilled than Smith, Beaudin, Lundkvist. Gustafsson's probably the top swedish center in this draft with big 2way upside. Nordgren's similar to DeBrincat but a good 2way player and a little bigger. He's an elite player against his age group.