GDT: Top 10 baby!! FINALLY

[surixon]

Yeah not having a 3rd or 4th really limited us this year. There were some good kids left in what would have been our range. One of those picks turned into DeMelo so can't be mad there.

Yeah getting and retaining him for 4 years is good value for a third. Would have much rather not made a move for Eakin.

 

[Daximus]

Yeah getting and retaining him for 4 years is good value for a third. Would have much rather not made a move for Eakin.

If we had a bit more time to work with things might have gone better. Eakin was gelling with Laine and Ehlers and our PK improved massively.

 

[Rheged]

Conventional wisdom would suggest we pick a goalie next but hopefully the skip it just this once haha.

 

[Daximus]

Avs trade up

 

[Guardian17]

Chevy at 1 min 12 sec !

 

[Daximus]

2 more picks left before the Jets are back up.

 

[DashingDane]

2 more picks left before the Jets are back up.

Who do you want?

 

[Duke749]

Almost back up. Be interesting who we take.

 

[Duke749]

Tyrel Bauer

 

[DashingDane]

Tyrel Bauer at eliteprospects.com

 

[Romang67]

Good: he was second among D on his team in p/g and upped his production by 21% from the previous season.

Bad: he had 17 points.

 

[jetsv2]

Well if you look him up on YouTube your gonna see a lot of fight videos.

 

[tbcwpg]

Good: he was second among D on his team in p/g and upped his production by 30% from the previous season.

Bad: he had 17 points.

Not helped by playing in a pretty poor development environment at the moment.

 

[Guardian17]

Well if you look him up on YouTube your gonna see a lot of fight videos.

 

[Daximus]

Who do you want?

Not Bauer. I'd have to look back at my list and check who is available but I didn't have him ranked.

 

[JetsFan815]

At the end of a season in which the team was a total dog, we had only 4 picks, only 2 in the first 4 rounds. This can't keep happening going forward.

 

[ICdave]

GM Kevin Cheveldayoff concluding availability of the 2020 NHL Draft Topics:

1. Balance of their drafting.
2. His thoughts on Daniel Torgersson.
3. What are the Finnish/Swedish programs doing to produce such good players?
4. Did he consider trading one pick into two or were they targeting certain players?
5. What is his assessment of Anton Johannesson and Tyrel Bauer.
6. Signing Dylan DeMelo and how it impacts their approach to free agency.
7. How would he characterize the trade market and did he notice more calls during the draft?
8. Does he expect it to be busy ahead of free agency?
9. How unique it is given the current reality.
10. Is his next move gonna be within his group of UFAs or does he anticipate it being a move outside of that?
11. The relief getting an area of concern (defence) resolved?
12. Have they created any sort of schedule given a January 1st start projected?
13. Are the centre/blueline still equally areas of need given the DeMelo signing?

To listen click here.

 

[rubikscube]

At the end of a season in which the team was a total dog, we had only 4 picks, only 2 in the first 4 rounds. This can't keep happening going forward.

To be fair, we traded our third for Dylan Demelo and that worked out exquisitely

 

[Guardian17]

GM Kevin Cheveldayoff concluding availability of the 2020 NHL Draft Topics:

1. Balance of their drafting.
2. His thoughts on Daniel Torgersson.
3. What are the Finnish/Swedish programs doing to produce such good players?
4. Did he consider trading one pick into two or were they targeting certain players?
5. What is his assessment of Anton Johannesson and Tyrel Bauer.
6. Signing Dylan DeMelo and how it impacts their approach to free agency.
7. How would he characterize the trade market and did he notice more calls during the draft?
8. Does he expect it to be busy ahead of free agency?
9. How unique it is given the current reality.
10. Is his next move gonna be within his group of UFAs or does he anticipate it being a move outside of that?
11. The relief getting an area of concern (defence) resolved?
12. Have they created any sort of schedule given a January 1st start projected?
13. Are the centre/blueline still equally areas of need given the DeMelo signing?

To listen click here.

 

[Atoyot]

Rafkin goes undrafted.

 

[DashingDane]

Just read through part of the 2014 draft thread (because, why not) and man have we lost some great posters RIP YWGinYYZ, TomServo, Aavco Cup, Allan5oh, Grump Hasek, JC Numminen and many more. Some great insights lost.

I only noticed one thing that hasn't changed

 

[DashingDane]

Still would @Scheifele55

 

[WPGChief]

I don't think you can call this draft "bad" considering the Jets essentially robbed the bank by picking Cole Perfetti at 10, but I think there was an opportunity at 40 to go back ~10 picks and get an extra 3rd or 4th round pick and still get "your guy", which ended up being Torgersson in this universe. Gunler wasn't getting past Carolina for sure, so not sure why they didn't trade it considering they didn't pick him. But I guess every team's draft lists are a mess and there's certainly no guarantees after the top 15, maybe 10 even.

That being said, this draft year has been lauded for years in terms of the top end forward talent, and though Jets already have a glut of them in the NHL today, the cupboards are rather lacking - no offence to the likes of Nikkanen or Nathan Smith - and getting a few more lottery tickets never hurts. A bit disappointing in the grand scheme of things, but Perfetti is almost instantly the Jets best prospect - yes, including Heinola.

 

[Whileee]

At the end of a season in which the team was a total dog, we had only 4 picks, only 2 in the first 4 rounds. This can't keep happening going forward.

But also added a #4 level D in his prime on a reasonable 4-year deal. I'd take that over a 3rd round pick at this point in the Jets' progression any day.

 

[Whileee]

I don't think you can call this draft "bad" considering the Jets essentially robbed the bank by picking Cole Perfetti at 10, but I think there was an opportunity at 40 to go back ~10 picks and get an extra 3rd or 4th round pick and still get "your guy", which ended up being Torgersson in this universe. Gunler wasn't getting past Carolina for sure, so not sure why they didn't trade it considering they didn't pick him. But I guess every team's draft lists are a mess and there's certainly no guarantees after the top 15, maybe 10 even.

That being said, this draft year has been lauded for years in terms of the top end forward talent, and though Jets already have a glut of them in the NHL today, the cupboards are rather lacking - no offence to the likes of Nikkanen or Nathan Smith - and getting a few more lottery tickets never hurts. A bit disappointing in the grand scheme of things, but Perfetti is almost instantly the Jets best prospect - yes, including Heinola.

I tend to agree, and Chevy alluded to discussions about perhaps moving down, but I don't mind the idea of taking the pick if you really like a player at that stage of the draft. Time will tell whether Torgersson was worth it, but I like his profile. Chevy also alluded to the recent tendency to draft Swedes and Finns, indicating that the flexibility in terms of the runway for development was seen as a positive. I thought that was interesting.