HughJazz3dg
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Any non playoff team can get the 1st pick and the odds have increased outside of 30th in the league.
Next year it changes again with the 2nd overall getting put up to chance.
…and the 3rd also
the worst team can end up picking 4th
14. I remember watching the (2001) draft on tsn and I thought for sure Derek Roy was going to be selected 28th overall by the Devils. Why did the team pick Adrian Foster that high? From jon dieks
"At that time we had a real stockpile of young talent and where we were drafting we were looking to try and hit a home run. Adrian Foster and Dany Heatley were the top two midgets in Western Canada. We knew Foster was hurt that year, the whole year, so we took a chance. It didn't work out. It was a calculated risk with homework being done by our scouting staff and the western scouts. He and Dany were the top two midgets the prior year."
If we're picking 8th or 9th, take Zacha if he's still there.
Outside of a good trade I have no problem with this. About the best you can do at that spot of he is still on the board.
Of course not. I am not happy with the product on the ice, but I don't lose sleep over it because the Devils are here for my enjoyment, not as my punching bag. There are also other posters on this board who take a similar perspective.
But for a lot of you, there's just an incessant dissatisfaction with almost everything that happens with the organization and an unwillingness to enjoy anything. People on here treat the Devils like a co-dependent relationship, micro-managing every little detail about something they can't control. Even when the team was successful this was still the case (people b****** the majority of the 11-12 season, before we had a good run at the end and in the playoffs).
Outside of a good trade I have no problem with this. About the best you can do at that spot of he is still on the board.
zacha or rantanen is fine with me
Yep. I'm down for Zach...uhh....I mean Zach...with an A.
Zacha would definitely be the best of most likely the rest of what would be remaining if we end up toward the bottom of the Top 10 draft pick order.
zacha or rantanen is fine with me
My gut feeling is that Rantanen is going to be an impact player.
zacha or rantanen is fine with me
When you think about it, when was the last time we saw a really high-end Finnish forward come up through their program
I'd rather have Barzal, may have more upside.
He certainly looked that way at the WJC, but I've seen so little of him compared to the CHL players that I wonder. I really like the general idea of taking Finns and Czechs, though. Both programs seem to be on the rise, and a lot of very good forwards are coming out of both programs at lower picks than you'd expect.
When you think about it, when was the last time we saw a really high-end Finnish forward come up through their program? There's a pretty long stretch where all we saw were goalies. Now we're seeing a lot of Finnish forwards beginning to make an impact like Salomaki, Granlund, Teravainen, Pulkkinen, Pakarinen, Barkov, and now Puljujarvi is being talked about as a possible first overall pick next season.
And on the Czech side, players like Pastrnak, Palat, Voracek, Hertl, seem to be a lot better than any Czech forwards to come up in recent memory. Maybe it's just selective memory, but I feel like these things follow a pattern as young players see stars in the NHL and think "I wanna be like that guy!"
Next year we will.
Barzal is smallish, not great defensively and a pass-first setup man.I wouldn't hate the pick, but I'd take Zacha higher.
Next year we will.
Sounds a bit like Gomez.
Honestly, I think Barkov might already be that guy. He reminds me so much of Kopitar.
zacha or rantanen is fine with me
Sounds a bit like Gomez.