[Vancouver_Canucks]

I hope we can draft the Sutter boy, but Calgary will probably pick him up.

[ModoExpress]

Rinslet, on Apr 26 2007, 01:39 PM, said:

Edler played okay. Fitz played okay. Both of them definitely did better than Sopel, but I guess they're playing well with the minutes given to them. If you give Edler more than 10-15 minutes right now, you might see him make more mistakes.

agreed, but hes doing a good job filling the lower d role, he even made some nice breakout passes, and i saw him shoot the puck a couple times... and it ended being an okay scoring chance

i hope he stays with the big club... sopel needs to be sent down

[MrTubesteak]

Anyone find confirmation on Koltsov not being on the Russia world championship team?
And if so, perhaps a reason why?

[Rinslet]

ModoExpress, on Apr 26 2007, 03:01 PM, said:

agreed, but hes doing a good job filling the lower d role, he even made some nice breakout passes, and i saw him shoot the puck a couple times... and it ended being an okay scoring chance

i hope he stays with the big club... sopel needs to be sent down

HAHA. Like what timw33 said, I want that 2nd rounder back.

[-mb]

People keep saying that we don't need anymore defenseman but when you think about it, we do. Sure we have Rahimi, Edler and Bourdon but after that... zilch. And the one thing the Canucks are missing in their current lineup and crop of prospects is a skating offensive defenseman. A guy like Zubov, Neidermeyer, Liles, Zidlicky. (Krajicek might be able to fill that role down the road, but as of right now he isn't a viable offensive threat)

I'm not saying that we should take another D first round in this years draft, but we do need to keep everything balanced. Taking 8 C in this years draft won't necessarily be beneficial. We do need D prospects and G prospects, just not as much as we need a solid C prospect.

As for the guy saying that the Sedins only care about themselves and not the team... They were sick with the flu through games 2-6. And when it mattered most they showed up and got the job done. Nowadays I think the majority of all the good ol' Canadian boys simply care about the raises they will get if they do well in the playoffs and win the Cup. Personally I see no advantage to drafting a NA player over a Euro.

I agree with breeze, I'd rather have Edler playing with Fitz as opposed to Sopel. Sopel is terrible.

P.S.: I'm tired, and I'm pretty much throwing things off the top of my head. So if my post doesn't make sense, well just take from it what you can.

[Rinslet]

Just saying we don't have an immediate need for a defenceman from this draft. We have 3 of our veteran guys practically locked up for 3-4 more years, then there's the 3 prospects you already mentioned, Bieksa and Krajicek (50% chance of resigning)... We don't really have to focus on getting more defencemen from this draft. Maybe like 1 from the later rounds...

[Wadim]

Rinslet, on Apr 26 2007, 03:30 PM, said:

Just saying we don't have an immediate need for a defenceman from this draft. We have 3 of our veteran guys practically locked up for 3-4 more years, then there's the 3 prospects you already mentioned, Bieksa and Krajicek (50% chance of resigning)... We don't really have to focus on getting more defencemen from this draft. Maybe like 1 from the later rounds...

Considering the development curve for defensemen is 4-6 years in most cases, i'd think we'd always be looking to draft defensemen. This years draft picks will likely start popping up around or after the time that our big 3's contracts are up. Albeit the hope is that Bourdon, Edler and Rahimi will be ready at that time as well.

In short, you never draft based on current need. You draft based on future needs. Unfortunately we haven't been drafting top-level centers since Kesler/Umberger. I do agree though that drafting anymore than 1 top defenseman this draft would be unwise.

[TheKottonmouthed]

given the final csb rankings and us most likley having a late 1st round rick and an early second round pick i think we should draft brandon sutter 1st and akim aliu 2nd

[Tact]

"Alexei Mikhnov, Alexei Kaigorodov, and Kirill Koltsov are the latest round of cuts for team Russia."

[Toxic]

Ive always said we need to use 2 picks this draft between the 3rd and 6th round to draft 2 Right Defensemen

our first 2 picks should be big bruising Centers

[Dortmund]

toxic rd, on Apr 26 2007, 04:35 PM, said:

Ive always said we need to use 2 picks this draft between the 3rd and 6th round to draft 2 Right Defensemen

our first 2 picks should be big bruising Centers

In a way I'm glad Victoriaville sucked in up in the first round of the playoffs. If Velliuex slipped into our grasp in the 2nd round that'd be sweet. He was a physical force in the prospects game and at 6'5....could be nice.

Watching Stamkos in the U-18, my god is he going to be a good player. 2008 Draft already looks good.

[King of Anarchy]

Tact, on Apr 26 2007, 04:32 PM, said:

"Alexei Mikhnov, Alexei Kaigorodov, and Kirill Koltsov are the latest round of cuts for team Russia."

What does that mean? Does that mean that they are coming to North America or something?

[ModoExpress]

TonyG, on Apr 26 2007, 05:31 PM, said:

What does that mean? Does that mean that they are coming to North America or something?

no it means they won't play for russia at the world hocky championship

by the way, kovalev is cut too, and semin

[King of Anarchy]

ModoExpress, on Apr 26 2007, 05:33 PM, said:

no it means they won't play for russia at the world hocky championship

Ahh yes.

Thanks for clearing that up; I was wondering what you guys were talking about the whole time.

[timw33]

2567Gino#29, on Apr 26 2007, 04:15 PM, said:

given the final csb rankings and us most likley having a late 1st round rick and an early second round pick i think we should draft brandon sutter 1st and akim aliu 2nd

Akim Aliu has attitude issues, he has walked out on his team TWICE.

No thanks, we do not need prima donna headaches in our organization.

ModoExpress, on Apr 26 2007, 05:33 PM, said:

no it means they won't play for russia at the world hocky championship

by the way, kovalev is cut too, and semin

Semin was cut for a ridiculous reason, because he showed up a little late because there wasn't an earlier plane he could catch.

And Kovalev is a female dog.






We would be lucky in Sutter is available when we pick, methinks he will be highly sought after, keep in mind the rankings from 10-50 really mean jacksh*t as these guys won't be drafted where they are ranked (I.E an ISS 29 could go at 11th in the draft)

There are a lot of good centres that we should have a shot at, let us hope that other teams in the 10-25 have great needs for Dmen, Goalies, and Wingers.

It might be benificial if LA chooses our 2nd for next year....

[Toxic]

GARGLEBARGLEHARGLE I CANT WAIT FOR THE DRAFT + INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER WINDOW

Come home Shirokov!!!

[timw33]

toxic rd, on Apr 26 2007, 05:59 PM, said:

GARGLEBARGLEHARGLE I CANT WAIT FOR THE DRAFT + INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER WINDOW

Come home Shirokov!!!

I know! And Koltsov!

And then we get to draft centres with Nonis at the helm.

[timw33]

Here's a mock draft on NHL.com for the 1st 14 teams.

They had MTL taking Veillieux
EDM taking Kane
FLO taking Esposito (that would be two players that were ranked 1st a couple years prior to the draft then fell (Frolik) )


http://www.nhl.com/n...rticleid=300544

This post has been edited by timw33: 26 April 2007 - 06:07 PM

[Toxic]

Wow, interesting mock draft, tons of Centers still available after that point

[Toxic]

Logan MacMillan might be a nice pickup with our 1st. 6'1" 170+ lbs. in his 2nd year put up decent numbers, seems like a real meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, not flashy but solid and smart.

The more and more i think about it the less and less i like the idea of drafting Hamill or Moller, we have so many small forwards in the system we need size and build. Plus, Moller is being listed by everyone as a Right Winger, not a Center

Hamill. . . i dont know how i could deal with having a 'tip in the system