tribaljohn Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 you are still under the impression that Linden is going to make hockey personel desicions?? I thought everyone knew Linden was a public relation hire to sell tickets and give the Canucks a better branding image. Linden will hire management but I guarantee you he wont make any decisions regarding who to draft and how to assemble this team. It's already been by ownership in a public media setting that Linden has 100% control to fix the team in any manner he sees fit, that in fact ownership has confidence in his abilities and hockey knowledge to guide the team to a Stanley Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Canuck Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 If you ask the GMs , they tell you they take the BPA in unison. Problem is -especially on this board- that who that player is becomes highly subjective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngdad Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I dont understand how this is even a debate. I personally think the Canuck's should always draft BPA and its not even close. I read soo many posters on CDC screaming that we draft size and grit because the current Canuck team lacks it and we will never be able to compete with The California Teams and the Pacific Division. People need to be patient and realize that these prospects arent going to be even ready for at least 3-5 years. By then how will the Pacfic look like? Nobody can predict. By the time our prospects will be ready to be an impact player other team's big bodied core will have aged. For instance. in 5 years. The following players will be; Jeff Carter 34 yrs old Joe Thornton 39 yrs old Patrick Marleau 39 yrs old Ryan Getzlaf 33 yrs old Corey Perry 33 yrs old Mike Richards 34 yrs old Dustin Brown 33 yrs old Brent Burns 33 yrs old Shane Doan 41 yrs old Aside from this, we need to take in consideration free agency and trades. The point being we dont know how the Pacific will shape 5 years from now so we cant draft players and assemble a team based on the unknown. So if Ritchie is the best player available at #6 then so be it and pick him, but dont draft him because he is big and he can play against the sharks, kings or ducks. Best Player Available needs to be the blue print in our draft strategy!!! and for my 2 cents, MDC or Nylander will be a Canuck come draft day. BPA is a matter of opinion bud. But I agree don't think about a specific hole in the current roster when making a pick. And can we please let some other team have little Miss Nylander? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanNuck Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Oh I'm not trying to "poo-poo" any of the other guys. I'll be pretty happy with any of Nylander, Perlini, Tuch, Ritchie, Virtanen etc...I just REALLY like Draisaitl. There's even a decent chance we get him as the ISS currently has Nylander ranked ahead of him and he's right in our spot. If he's still available when we pick he's my "choice" short of someone even more obvious dropping (come on Ekblad! ) No you haven't... but lots of other people I hear from are pessimistic about people outside the top 5. Personally, I would attempt to leverage a three-way trade with a Stanley Cup contender and a (top-five pick) team more interested in the 2015 lottery than this draft... and draft Reinhart and Virtanen, if for no other reason, they are BC boys. But both guys are certainly high potential players, and I'm actually salivating a prospective line with Jensen-Reinhart-Virtanen. That line rings shades of the former West Coast Express (but with maybe Steve Yzerman substituting Brendan Morrison, and Naslund getting a bit bigger and more unstoppable). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 No you haven't... but lots of other people I hear from are pessimistic about people outside the top 5. Personally, I would attempt to leverage a three-way trade with a Stanley Cup contender and a (top-five pick) team more interested in the 2015 lottery than this draft... and draft Reinhart and Virtanen, if for no other reason, they are BC boys. But both guys are certainly high potential players, and I'm actually salivating a prospective line with Jensen-Reinhart-Virtanen. That line rings shades of the former West Coast Express (but with maybe Steve Yzerman substituting Brendan Morrison, and Naslund getting a bit bigger and more unstoppable). No offence but shouldn't we be the team looking to try and get a lottery pick for 2015? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 No offence but shouldn't we be the team looking to try and get a lottery pick for 2015? No team should try to get a lottery pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- PikaBOO - Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Back in the 2008 draft:Best player available - Cody HodgsonTeam Need: Kyle Beach (Bust)Always draft the best player available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckFan1981 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 No you never draft BPA, you draft for team need. If you go to the grocery store and your wife puts on the list to get bananas,apples and grapes but instead you buy a rake a hose and a hat then your wife will tell at you and your an idiot. You don't need then so why buy them. Draft for team need Or your wife sends you to the store for Milk and Eggs, but when you get there you see they only have 3 snow shovels left and aren't getting any more until next season... So you spend your money buying the shovels at regular price, then sell the shovels to your neighbors at twice the store price. Always take the item with the most VALUE (or BPA), because if it has value you can get what you need in return via trade... But if you get the milk and eggs, that is all you will get... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgerKing Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 BPA is BS, in present NHL cup winners are made up of large, physical mainly north american players, the smaller guys need elite skill eg Briere, Kane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 No team should try to get a lottery pick. You may not want to get a lottery pick, but if you want to improve your chances at building faster, draft picks on a deeper draft year, or being able to trade up to get a player like McDavid, isn't that better option, than trying to move up this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Well I don't know about anybody else but I'd take the fishing boat. Then I'd sell that boat to somebody on the coast, buy the truck, and pocket the rest of the cash. As long as you don't buy that pickup in BC, you should have alot left over in that pocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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