Prospect Info: With the 39th Overall Pick the New York Rangers Select Olof Lindbom

[Amazing Kreiderman]

4B EXCLUSIVE: Catching Up With Rangers Prospect Olof Lindbom - FOREVER BLUESHIRTS

 

[Doctyl]

4B EXCLUSIVE: Catching Up With Rangers Prospect Olof Lindbom - FOREVER BLUESHIRTS

Didn’t want to be reminded of this pick

 

[Leetch3]

Didn’t want to be reminded of this pick

I absolutely hated the pick, nothing against the kid but taking a goalie there when we had shesty made no sense. and the fact that bode wilde, jack drury and akil thomas had big years last year doesn't help you feel better about it...

that said though he's now ours, so I want nothing more than for him to make us all look like clowns in hindsight for hating on the pick.

 

[Leetch3]

another young goalie that grew up idolizing lundqvist....does that mean hank is that good or that old? or both? lol

 

[True Blue]

that said though he's now ours, so I want nothing more than for him to make us all look like clowns in hindsight for hating on the pick.

You and me both. But I have no idea how they could have passed on Thomas given the fact pattern of who was already here or at least in the pipeline.

 

[nyr2k2]

4B EXCLUSIVE: Catching Up With Rangers Prospect Olof Lindbom - FOREVER BLUESHIRTS

I like how this article says, "The comparisons between Lundqvist and Lindbom will be made for a long time," when I have heard literally no one make any type of comparisons between the two.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I don't know if you guys ever watched Frasier but there was an episode where Frasier lost a tape of one of his shows (or found out that it was missing) and found a crazy fan that had a copy of the tape. The fan was so obsessed with him, Frasier realized that obsessions aren't healthy and left the tape with him and rendered his collection imperfect. It was as if Gorton wanted to render this rebuild imperfect by drafting this guy and declining the tape.

 

[Gospel of Prospal]

Still astonished. No one had even heard of him, yet he was taken as the first goalie in the draft and in the second round. I mean...incredible. Really incredible.

But yeah, let's hope he pans out.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Still astonished. No one had even heard of him, yet he was taken as the first goalie in the draft and in the second round. I mean...incredible. Really incredible.

But yeah, let's hope he pans out.

This isn't true

 

[Gospel of Prospal]

This isn't true

For dramatic effect...but yes, most people had not heard of him

 

[Kovalev27]

He’s 5 years behind shesterkin I don’t have as much of a problem with taking a goalie in that draft but he wasn’t even the best goalie in the draft in a year where the goalie pool sucked. He’s once again undersized. Seems like allaire does better with smaller goalies than he does drafting bigger goalies though.

But then taking him 39th overall? Just absolutely absurd

 

[Inferno]

I don't know if you guys ever watched Frasier but there was an episode where Frasier lost a tape of one of his shows (or found out that it was missing) and found a crazy fan that had the tape. The fan was so obsessed with him, Frasier realized that obsessions aren't healthy and left the tape with him and rendered his collection imperfect. It was as if Gorton wanted to render this rebuild imperfect by drafting this guy and declining the tape.

That was....an interesting path to take to make this point.

 

[Gospel of Prospal]

It does suck. Akil Thomas would've provided much-needed C depth in the farm and Bode Wilde would've been a nice-sized RHD with decent upside.


Ah well. Go Lindbom!

 

[nyr2k2]

It does suck. Akil Thomas would've provided much-needed C depth in the farm and Bode Wilde would've been a nice-sized RHD with decent upside.


Ah well. Go Lindbom!

McLeod or Drury would have been great.

I also liked Ishakov a bit at the time, and like him more after watching him last year.

 

[Kovalev27]

Bottom line call it like it is. NYR fell in love with him after a great U18. Had nothing to do with his play beforehand. Couldn’t be. Kid had a great tourney and we jumped on him

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Bottom line call it like it is. NYR fell in love with him after a great U18. Had nothing to do with his play beforehand. Couldn’t be. Kid had a great tourney and we jumped on him

Or there’s more to scouting goalies than their sv%

 

[Fitzy]

"Count Olof" would be a bitchin nickname.

 

[007]

Bottom line call it like it is. NYR fell in love with him after a great U18. Had nothing to do with his play beforehand. Couldn’t be. Kid had a great tourney and we jumped on him

I think just about every article I've ever seen about Lindbom said something along the lines of "Allaire loves this kid." Always seemed to me that he was picked because Allaire saw something in him, and thinks he's can coach him to the top level. I'd hope that belief relies on more than one tournament.

 

[Rongomania]

Oh, it's that point in the summer now, the 'Olof Lindbom discussion' point.

**** me dude.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

For dramatic effect...but yes, most people had not heard of him

By that logic, the same can be said about Kravtsov

 

[SnowblindNYR]

That was....an interesting path to take to make this point.

I could have just been boring and said the pick sucked but the rest of the rebuild has been going well...

 

[nyr2k2]

I think just about every article I've ever seen about Lindbom said something along the lines of "Allaire loves this kid." Always seemed to me that he was picked because Allaire saw something in him, and thinks he's can coach him to the top level. I'd hope that belief relies on more than one tournament.

I hope they draft/sign kids based on more than just "Allaire loves him," since the reality is most of the goalies we bring in do not pan out. Which of course, is not itself unusual, but with the 39th pick I'd like more than "our position coach loves the guy."

The reality is, however, that Lindbom seemed to grade out in the 3rd-5th round range. If they really liked him, he might not have been there in the third. Still, too early, too raw of a prospect, no at a position of great need. I won't ever get it, but whatever.

 

[Gospel of Prospal]

By that logic, the same can be said about Kravtsov

You know what I meant, Steven...

 

[nyr2k2]

By that logic, the same can be said about Kravtsov

Ehhhhh. I think pretty much everyone who was even passively following the draft had at least heard of Kravtsov, given that every outlet had him going somewhere in the first round. The surprise with him was mostly from people who don't follow the draft at all and were expecting names like Wahlstrom, Bouchard, Farabee, etc., as those were the guys who were so often mentioned on here. Kravtsov was a surprise to some, but not unknown by any means.

I just went back and looked at his draft thread, pretty much everyone lauded the pick and knew exactly who he was, I didn't see anyone say, "Who?" The only criticisms were from people who wanted Wahlstrom or whoever.

Prospect Info: - With the 9th Overall Pick the New York Rangers Select Vitali Kravtsov

 

[Leetch3]

Oh, it's that point in the summer now, the 'Olof Lindbom discussion' point.

**** me dude.

you seem to be surprised to find an olof lindbom discussion in the olof lindbom thread lol