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Best names of the draft?
Mismash or Geekie?
Mismash or Geekie?
You guys got Lindstrom too. I like him.
They fucked up not taking a good ol Canadian boy in Glass.So disgusted my Canucks took that pencil neck Petterson.
This was so cringeworthy lolThat whole green room thing they did this year was awkward. I felt bad for Klostin and his family sitting there by themselves at the end.
I wanted Glass or Pettersson so I'm pleased with the pick. I wasn't sold on vilardi because of his skating. Looked too much like derian hatcher.
Pettersson is 6'2" and at least 3 years away from having a sniff at the NHL imo, so he'll have time to fill out some more. Plenty of time for us to acquire more 5th overall picks.
They fucked up not taking a good ol Canadian boy in Glass.
I was iffy on Rasmussen as well but Detroit will make a player out of him I'm sure.At the end of the day I'm just glad we didn't end up with Rasmussen.
They fucked up not taking a good ol Canadian boy in Glass.
I like the name, today is the first I heard of him. I was hoping to grab a quality D-man.
Also just got the #2 NA goalie.
Some people are hating on the Rasmussen pick, but I'm staying positive. I like what we took so far.
We wasted a 6th overall pick on a good old Canadian boy already. That didn't turn out well for us. Imagine if we ended up taking one of those soft undersized euros instead.
Jokes aside, I would have been ok with glass if we ended up with him. He's a slightly safer bet but has a much lower ceiling. Overall i think Pettersson is totally worth the risk.
I don't know about much lower ceiling. Glass' ceiling is pretty sky high. At a certain point there's just a ceiling for everybody not named McJesus, peace be upon him.
Rumors Gardiner was traded for Seabrook. Any truth guys?
Rangers and Habs had similar needs, I liked NYs picks, I feel like that Andersson kid is going to be a underrated star a la Kopitar, with Stepan gone the Rangers are going to need more 200 foot forwards who can score.If I make believe in my mind that we used our first on Ikonen and our 58th on Poehling, I'm pretty okay with our draft. We could have focussed a lot more on offense. Like....a LOT more. At this point Montreal's prospect pool is dmen and goalies with a couple wingers and Ikonen. I like Brook and Walford much more than Fleury and Tyszka. But they can all skate and move the puck. Timmins seems to have gotten the memo that the trade market for dmen who can do that is ridiculous.
I'm still super bummed out that NYR took Chytil, though. That really took the wind out of my sails.
Who knows how they'll all turn out.. but I believe if Pettersson lives up to his potential (a big if), he could be one of the top centers in the league. Backstrom like. Whereas I see glass likely settling into a good two-way 2c position. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but we already have one of those in Horvat (who I'm a huge fan of).
The canucks severely lack high-end, elite, first line talent. From our standpoint, I'm willing to take a bit of a risk for something like that, over a more sure thing like Glass.
We'll probably never see a generational talent like McDavid in Vancouver, so moves like this are about as close as we can get.
For all the flak this draft got, it was a great place to pick up some skilled two-way forwards. I do like the Canucks going for it a little and taking one of the potential offensive powerhouses of the round.
Yeah I think this draft will yeild a lot of solid nhl'ers. I think people have just gotten spoiled lately with plethora of almost gaurnteed elite level top end talent of recent years.
Same, I'd call it the 1.5th line forward draft. I'm kind of sad the Pens gave up their pick in such a deep draft, but we just won the Cup, Rutherford has all my trust.