Just a quick question, what was the trade for San Jose to acquire the second first rounder?
I love what San Jose did. Got a guy with great upside in Couture and a replacement for McClaren in the future in Petreki.
Like Montreal's picks. Had their guys and got em. McDounagh is going to be a stud.
Rangers How can you not like getting a top five talent at 17? Whatever issues he may have, that's huge value at that spot.
Blues work their magic again getting the sleeper in Eller and then moving up to make sure they got their other guy in Cole.
Calgary. I don't know if it was luck or what, but they were able to move down and still get a guy that could turn out to be one of the best players in the draft.
BUT THE REAL BIG WINNER IN THIS YEARS DRAFT...
Is the USNDP and the USHL. Shows what a good job they've been doing in turning USA hockey into a force to be reckoned with.
San Jose is a big winner, they go from no firsts to getting Couture and Petrecki AND they find someone dumb enough to take Mark Bell.
Yes, San Jose definitely deserves a HM as a winner.
Honestly, Esposito at 20 fell a bit further than i could expect whereas i couldn't stop laughing because of Cherepanov free fall..jas -
The lack of a transfer agreement with Russia and players like Malkin having to flee in the middle of the night in some cloak and daggers game make Cherepanov falling to 17 not especially surprising. Tell me anyone who thought Esposito would fall to anywhere close to 20.
Man, Doug Wilson is impressive. Last night, he became my fave GM. Just amazing display of knowledge, strategy and asset management.
He apparently came off as cocky and arrogant in an interview with Edmonton (which, IMO, is the language barrier).
And he would not have a work ethic problem playing on the team he does. He wouldn't have gotten the ice time he did if it was as bad as some uninformed people have claimed in the past.
I don't understand how the Oilers are considered losers, especially with Gagner. You all say that Plante would be there at 30, who the hell do you think you are stating such bullcrap as that? Are you one of those insiders who knew that he wasn't on the radar?
Anyway, nothing wrong with a big, tough mean Canadian defenseman who stands 6'5" and 225 at 18. Reminds me of the type of defenseman that won the cup this year. With all the big defenseman coming up in the Oiler farm, all I can say is they all look very mean.
Just because you watch highlights on youtube doesn't make you a scout.
In my opinion, Edmonton and St.Louis were the only two teams up at the top that had the flexability to take the chance and draft either Cher and Espo. They had more than one pick(three) and it would have been worth it to them. All the rest had to make the correct desision. A first rounder is valuable because if you bomb it, it sets you back years, prospects wise. The ones that don't pan out, hurts teams greatly. I can't believe all of those teams were wrong about them.
3. TOR- could have had Eller/Espo/Cher instead they have Toskala and Bell
All of this talk about winners and losers is BS anyhow. Nobody has any idea how things will pan out.I don't understand how the Oilers are considered losers, especially with Gagner. You all say that Plante would be there at 30, who the hell do you think you are stating such bullcrap as that? Are you one of those insiders who knew that he wasn't on the radar?
Anyway, nothing wrong with a big, tough mean Canadian defenseman who stands 6'5" and 225 at 18. Reminds me of the type of defenseman that won the cup this year. With all the big defenseman coming up in the Oiler farm, all I can say is they all look very mean.
Just because you watch highlights on youtube doesn't make you a scout.
Winner is STL imo.
Eller will be the steal of this draft. He's the next Zetterberg.
Malkin had an extension signed I believe and actually had to get out of his contract.
Cherepanov's contract is up after this season and he, his agent, and Omsk have all said that he will not be there next year and that he will be in the NHL or at least in North America in some capacity at the minimum.
Totally different situations. He does not have to get out of a contract that won't exist after this year.
And even if he does somehow get signed into an extension, the Rangers have the money to "pay off" the Russians.
What's his nuts on the TSN broadcast said that one scout he talked to said that Cherepanov was falling because of his work ethic and not because of the transfer agreement. And I'm inclined to believe this. If the courts upheld Malkin's departure from Russia, there's no reason why they wouldn't do the same for anyone else. And Cherepanov has said in interviews that he wanted to come to the NHL after one more season in Russia. I don't think the transfer agreement was the dominant issue for most teams.