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  1. Tkachuck is roughly on par risk IMO. Keller are both riskier IMO. Especially Nylander.
  2. I think it was actually a very low risk pick (roughly on par with MT). Sergachev would have been risky.
  3. I'm looking at the player, not where he was drafted. Kid is too smart IMO to 'just' be a #4 (short of the aforementioned derailment). Combine that with being one of the youngest guys drafted and having a very projectable frame and I see him as a nice complimentary #2 in his prime if his development stays on track. But yes, anything resembling a definitive assessment will take years.
  4. Chych has the lowest likely ceiling (#2 IMO) but pretty safe bet to be at least a #4. Serg has the highest ceiling but also highest bust factor. Could be anything from a #1 to a 8th D/ AHL'er. If he makes it, he'll be damn good but I'm not sure we could afford the risk (or backlash) if he doesn't. Juolevi is likely a #2, with an outside shot at #1 and almost certainly no worse than #3 (short of a major derailment) IMO, and was the smartest D in the draft. Can't teach that (and the ability to read the play). He's got time to add strength and add more outright speed to his already smooth skating.
  5. Going to help the Comets a LOT next year. Nice infusion of guys coming in the next couple years.
  6. It is a bit odd that according to reports he was training hard, with Canuck staff all summer, and yet his fitness was (at least somewhat) still in question/an issue. I don't think we're in Wellwood or a few years ago Byfuglien territory with Jake but it is certainly odd. Some of that could be due to what I've talked about before on here that it can take his body type (I'm guessing endomorph) a LOT of work (and hence time) to get to what we consider 'good' NHL level fitness/stamina. We're talking years of hard work here. And if he's cheating, even a bit on diet, that's not going to help him. Particularly with his body type. Combine that with what is (understandably at his age) some maturity issues and the (very common with younger players) issue with needing to constantly be moving your feet at the pro level we start to see more of the picture of what is likely happening with Jake. He needs to keep working at his fitness, mature and learn (like a LOT of younger players) that he can't get by at the pro level on skill and size alone while coasting around and that he has to constantly be pushing out on the ice (which will require that aforementioned fitness). The shot, skating and skill are there. So long as he keeps working at those other things, he'll be fine IMO.
  7. 'Wouldn't succeed' is a bit strong. I doubt he'd be having the same level of success without the likes of Monahan, Elf-boy, Giordano etc to play with. He'd still likely be on pace for 35+ points here though. Also would have caused issue with our LW depth. Would he have even displaced Daniel/Baer/Granlund or would he have been back in Jr...? Reardless, they're both likely to be good NHL players. There's no need to pit one against the other as though there was a definitive right or wrong choice. Especially at this stage. Reality dictates we could only pick one.
  8. Further to this, why are you so afraid to admit how nice it is to have Juolevi?
  9. Watched this a few nights ago... For anyone who hasn't read the books.... I don't know if I'd go as low as 2.5. Probably 4 or so out of 10. The first 1/2 is not horrible but it falls off a cliff in to a pit full of spikes and venomous snakes in the second half. If you have read the books however...Holy #$@% what a festering pile of turd out of 10! They changed SO much stuff from the books that it's barely a recognizable story at the end. My wife and I actually said 'what the $%#@ are we watching?!' to each other. I understand that films need to tweak story/character elements for the sake of pacing etc but they seemingly changed things here for the sake of change. They didn't aid the story, they didn't help the pacing it was a confusing, cheesy, mess that looks like it was rushed in and out of production with little thought. I don't know if it was Burton or the studio's idea to COMPLETELY re-invent the wheel and change the entire back half of the movie, and not even to something good, but results are HORRIBLE. I also don't know how they got such prominent actors to actually star in their little re-invented turd of a movie. I'm completely disappointed in this 'effort' after reading the books. This had the opportunity of being something of a cross between later Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings IMO. The books are quite entertaining. The movie however, is largely, unfortunately, garbage.
  10. It would be nice to have Jost, Keller, Sergachev etc too. You only get one pick. You can't have all the players.
  11. Signing Errikson was just as much about 2 years+ from now when likely we'll be without Burrows, Hansen and 2 Sedins while quite possibly not quite having ready forward prospects to play a top 6 role. That's probably about when Juolevi might be showing up. Be nice for him to have one veteran top 6 guy to pay with.
  12. Been beating that drum for a while. That's probably a better description than I've been able to give so far though.
  13. aGENT

    Anton Rodin | RW/LW

    If they keep playing like tonight, Rodin is going to get splinters in his arse.
  14. Precisely my point Still, I don't currently see it as a 'problem' per se. He's 20, not 23. If he hasn't started to figure out how to reconcile those things in the next couple years, I'll worry then.
  15. Maybe if we moved Edler instead/too. We don't really need more left D otherwise. Nor do we need particularly more size with Tryamkin, Gudbranson, Sbisa, Edler, even Hutton to some extent. Plus I doubt Azner comes to a rebuilding team regardless.
  16. Chris Tanev is what you hope Juolevi will become. If Juolevi adds more offense (not to mention likely more size) to that... I'd say that projects Juolevi in to solid #2 with an outside chance at becoming a # 1 (though I'd agree #2 is most likely). He'd have to regress/develop poorly to fall to a #3 IMO. Clearly the coaching was fine everybody. Juolevi simply ruined his team by being so awful and not being able to play a full 60 minutes, in every position, all at the same time.
  17. I don't even know what to do but at some of these posts.
  18. Mostly that there's actually time for coaching (and practice) in the AHL that simply does not exist at the NHL level.
  19. I don't really see any short selling of MT. They're both good, young players who were ranked 5/6 by most. I liked OJ slightly more before the draft and that hasn't changed. People are just wetting themselves because MT is already in the NHL and producing decent numbers (albeit within a better forward group than we currently have). I'm personally less concerned about this year and more concerned about 3+ years from now where I believe OJ will be a slightly better, more important player. That's not a knock on MT. What a silly comment. Bourdon could easily have become this franchises first, true, #1D if it weren't for that damned accident. Again, that isn't a slight on Kopitar, clearly he's a VERY good player, but a good skating, skilled, minute munching D with size is what cups are won with. It's quite plausible we win in 2011 with him on the roster. That very likely would still have been the right pick if he'd simply lived. RIP.
  20. The two are not disconnected.
  21. Thanks for the correction. Thought I remembered him playing in Europe but I guess it was on loan. Either way, AHL eligible I think
  22. AHL as far as I know as he's playing in Euro league, not junior.
  23. That's all in trying to say. A lot of PWF'S take more time to develop. Not all of them. I never claimed it's a hard and fast rule with every single, large PWF. And it of course varies depending on the individual player their situation, team, etc. Virtanen, for example, hasn't got a lot of other top 6 quality team mates in Utica... yet. Another reason I hope he's there for at least part of next year as well. Hopefully Zuhkenov, Jasek etc (come on Hischier!) help that next year. Even many of your better examples who were 'decent' players in their early 20's made an obvious leap once they hit 22/23'ish (some even later). It's not an 'excuse', it's simply a common trend, even with the cream is the crop, that they simply take longer to fully adapt their game and bodies to the NHL level. Agreed with giving him time.
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