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It's interesting once you break it down by points... and rough estimations based on somewhat hopeful / historic totals Pettersson - 82 H.Sedin - 102 Boeser - 70 D.Sedin - 94 Horvat - 65 Kesler - 73 Ferland - 40 Burrows - 48 Miller - 60 Samuelsson - 50 Sutter - 30 Malholtra - 30 Pearson - 40 Raymond - 39 Roussel - 30 Torres - 29 Beagle - 20 Lapierre - 12 Baerstchi - 35 Hansen - 29 Virtanen - 25 Higgins - 28 Leivo - 25 Glass - 10 Edler - 35 Ehrhoff - 50 Myers - 35 Edler - 33 Hughes - 30 Salo - 7 (hurt) Tanev - 10 (hurt) Bieksa - 22 Stecher - 23 Hamhuis - 23 Benn Tanev - 1 (rookie) I'd say the Sedins obviously were the best in the game at this point and that's the difference maker along with #1 D... But the rest of the roster I think is the same and could be potentially better IF some guys make a step forward. A couple years of experience and a few more higher end prospects entering the lineup and line chemistry and we just might have a team.

What happens if BC loses today? Demko done for the year?

How about trade a winger or two. Higgins/Burrows/Vrbata/Kassian/Hansen

Woahhh huge news!! Anyone who is watching going to do a highlight video/ shiftbyshift??

I forgot baertschi too. Not the hugest virtanen fan but our prospect pool just wouldn't have any balance with shink, baer, and nylander/ehlers. We'd be the montreal canadiens pre 2012 lol

Not to be pro virtanen or anything but with the emergence of shinkaruk wouldn't that have made nylander redundant? I think shinkaruk can be a better pro than nylander.... IMO shink has more heart and tenacity

Lets hope he follows michael ferlands development draft +1:56pts 56gms draft +2:96pts 68gms --> 47 goals! boy can skate and hit lolol. Can't believe they stole him in the 5th round! Should've been top 10!!!!

Depends what you consider a bust. I think he'll easily play 100+ games in the nhl. But I believe he's going to be a fringe 2 liner and mostly a 3rd liner. So for me, with the 6th pick I consider that a bad pick. When I watch him play I think of a bigger, more physical, less falling mason raymond.

lol at 0:24 for not passing to two open guys

Meanwhile barbashev 4 goals 2 assists

ppg for a 6th overall pick!! Let me hop on that antibust train....

I do. I'm just not romantically involved with a player just because my favorite team drafted him.

So much blind bias

Which is more disheartening lol

So plekanec's goal tonight not a real goal?

Okay how about playing the odds. It is a HIGH percent chance that a ppg player in juniors won't be on the 1/2 lines in the nhl. Look at gaunce and jensen. Both players were ppg and didn't get any better from their draft years. Jensen looks like a bust and hopefully gaunce can be a great 4th liner with 3rd line spot duty with injuries.

Concern about horvat? We were worried his 74 pts in 54gms would translate to above a 3rd liner. Now virtanen with 52 pts in 50 gms. The concern is not even comparable. Bo was a playoff stud and defensively responsible. If jake doesn't turn around in the whl next year with 1.5ppg then I can't see him as anything more than a 3rd liner like kreider. You need to put up more points in the whl to put up points in the nhl. Not stat watching... just basic math

I still have a Nischuskin boner

Are you seriously undermining his goals? Geez prospects can't win. Is it the first five hole goal you've ever seen in the nhl? On the second one he obviously went there again cause the gaping hole. marginal goals is a flipping paradox... a goal is a goal is a goal

awesome vision, poise, passing in that game. Could've had a few points

Exactly... you don't use a 6th pick on a fast skater with intangebles. You draft him cause he has all that and can score. I really hate the pick but I'm a canuck fan and really want him to turn it around. It could be his shoulder injury didn't give him time in the off season to work on his shot and he doesn't have the accuracy or the faith in it anymore? Last year his shot was lights out... this year all I hear is board clanging

He's better than a 2nd. But I'd actually trade him for a 10-15 in this draft.

hahaha 6th overall. Tanked in the wrongggg year

Better prospects in a redraft? nylander/ehlers/larkin/fiala/pastrnak/mcann/scherbak and maybe perlini/vrana?

Dorsett will leave and Hansen would slot in 4th RW. I hope we resign matthias and get rid of higgins but I could also see it as the other way around and we don't resign him and higgins slots in as 3rd line LW