GDT: The 2023 NHL Entry Draft - Nashville, TN - 4:00pm (AZ) - ESPN, ESPN+

[TheLegend]

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[ck26]

Another big day for the franchise. Smith and Wood!

(or any number of other combinations)

Make it so!

 

[TheLegend]

I'm working tonight at 4:00pm so I scheduled the thread to go live at 3:00pm.

 

[More Cooley]

I’ll be up at 1 am local time with a bowl of chips and a couple of beers. My wife, understanding as usual, just looked at me when I told her about my plans

 

[ParisSaintGermain]

A very exciting day ahead. So many permutations, so many possibilities within our 2 1st round picks.
This should be memorable.

 

[Prarievarg]

I’ll be up at 1 am local time with a bowl of chips and a couple of beers. My wife, understanding as usual, just looked at me when I told her about my plans

Same, fortunately I'll be working from home tomorrow!

 

[Nagatoarek]

Same, fortunately I'll be working from home tomorrow!

I'll also be watching from 1 am. I'm luckily on vacation myself, so no need to worry about getting up tomorrow!

 

[PHX FireBirds18]

I’m predicting we pick 3 times in the first again.

 

[lanky]

I’m predicting we pick 3 times in the first again.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Bill moves up from 38 to get Strbak.

 

[MIGs Dog]

We have 12 picks. How many players will we draft? I'm guessing fewer.

 

[FinnishCoyote]

I’ll be up at 1 am local time with a bowl of chips and a couple of beers. My wife, understanding as usual, just looked at me when I told her about my plans

Same, but it is 2AM in Finland.


Propably just gonna watch first 15 picks or so and then back to sleep

 

[Puck possession wins]

Another big day for the franchise. Smith and Wood!

(or any number of other combinations)

Make it so!

I will literally cry tears of joy is Smith is available at 6.

I’m predicting we pick 3 times in the first again.

Thinking so too. Especially if we go FWD/FWD with our first two picks.

 

[BUX7PHX]

I believe that WSH will wind up trading to 5 OA with MTL if Michkov is still on board.

If we like Leonard that much and PHL has an eye on him too, but MTL wants to go defense, we don't want to drop back to 8 and watch as the player we would have taken at 6 gets snatched up 1 spot ahead. As talks intensify? Washington will realize Montreal is the team to trade with.

Montreal moves back with the assumption that the Flyers don't take Reinbacher. We get Leonard at 6. That is the safe pick.

I think 12 is the time when we go a little off radar. I am sold enough that if Benson is still there, the risk/reward on size doesn't matter any more. Otherwise, it is some sort of growth player. My only hope is that it is a forward, cause to me, taking the 2nd best D in the top 12 of a draft loaded about 18 deep at forward seems like we didn't nail the strength of the makeup of the draft well. Makes it all the more important that if we do take D at 6 or 12, they MUST hit.

 

[More Cooley]

Same, fortunately I'll be working from home tomorrow!

WFH sure has its benefits

 

[Freddy Sjostrom]

 

[rt]

Some VERY interesting tidbits from Pronman in his latest mock:

2023 NHL Mock Draft: After Connor Bedard goes No. 1, Corey Pronman sees room for surprise

Who will go No. 2? It could be Leo Carlsson or Adam Fantilli. And Matvei Michkov remains a wild card at the top of the draft.

theathletic.com

1. Terrifyingly: “Almost everyone in the league thinks if Montreal takes someone other than Reinbacher, that the top-rated defenseman will be a Coyote.”

2. Interestingly: “I think the top eight names above go in some order. After that, I think there’s a mini tier of three: Wood, Nate Danielson and Tom Willander.”

3. Surprisingly: “People in the NHL quickly took notice when Armstrong, Arizona’s GM, was spotted live scouting Simashev and Daniil But in Belarus a few weeks before the draft.”

 

[Vinny Boombatz]

Man o man...please have Montreal take Reinbacher...I wouldn't mind if we got him at #12, but don't want him at #6

 

[rt]

Man o man...please have Montreal take Reinbacher...I wouldn't mind if we got him at #12, but don't want him at #6

I’m feeling today like this:

Reinbacher: 33%
Leonard: 33%
Dvorsky: 33%
Michkov: 1%

And they way they keep smirking and taking about “the unexpected” I wonder if they don’t have But and/Simashev like waaaaay up on their list. Maybe even Wallinder?

On Spittin’ Chiclets, the guys kept talking about how insane the surprises are going to be in on the top five to ten picks. That it’s going to be crazy. They seem to think Smith could go as high as 2nd and hinted at Wallinder going shockingly high.

 

[Llewzaher]

I expect Reinbacher .. so...

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

Lol we’re gonna pick Reinbacher at 6 and be the laughing stock of everyone’s post draft articles

 

[Coyotes19c]

Please no D at 6. That’s all I ask.

 

[rt]

Lol we’re gonna pick Reinbacher at 6 and be the laughing stock of everyone’s post draft articles

Nobody will laugh at that. Everyone will say it’s a fine and sensible pick. He’s been mocked to us in nearly every mock where he doesn’t go to Montreal. The last time a defenseman didn’t go in the top six was 20 years ago when Ryan Suter went seventh. Reinbacher is seen as the top defenseman in this draft. There are no teams in the top ten with a bigger need on the blueline. It’s not that bad. He’s a top prospect would would’ve been in the mix with Nemec and Jiricek last draft.

I’m just bummed about the opportunity cost. There are forwards I like more. But he’s a very good prospect and I’ll make peace with it pretty quick.

All of that said, he’s the one guy I’m hoping we don’t pick.

 

[lanky]

I'm guessing But at 12 after hearing that Bill was was in Belarus.

 

[Vinny Boombatz]

Fellas, we only took 6 kids to dinner...we're getting 2 of those kids

Leonard, Dvorsky, Reinbacher, Benson, Wallinder, Yager

Book it, it will be some combination of this.

 

[Freddy Sjostrom]

"We take the best player and figure it out from there," Armstrong said. "If you get too focused on positional, it's not good. I think you have to take the best player in the draft, and we've always done it that way."