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  1. Loui had way more success playing LW than RW, IIRC. I agree, he is a better fit with Bo. And its likely next year, since Baer can easily slot in with our likely 'future 1/2C' guy via the draft this year. Ie, i expect lines to be something akin to: Sedin-Sedin-Goldy/Granny Loui-Bo-Brock Baer-1R draft pick- Goldy/UFA Plug-Sutter-Plug If we got the right plug and the right UFA (J.Williams will be a good target for RW UFA), this would make us remarkably deep and maybe, just maybe pull a Columbus.
  2. Outside of the top 15, yeah i'd agree. But one tries not to draft a one-dimensional guy with a top-5 pick. and people who normally do the 'crash and bang the net' at NHL and are good at it, have plenty other skills, not just that skill like Rasmussen.
  3. Err, if physicality is an issue, it affects wingers more than centres, because wingers do more board battles. Hischier is a solid C prospect because he is also quite good at the faceoff dot.
  4. Rasmussen would be a mistake- Virtanen-esque mistake if anyone picks him in the top 10. I've watched him play, he is a 6'5 power-play specialist, who's mantra is 'i can walk through defensemen to get to the net and muscle in a garbage goal or two' when he is not on the PP. That tactic is pretty much what Virtanen used to do in junios (try to muscle his way to the goal through middle of the ice) and that tactic doesnt work in the NHL.
  5. Patrick, due to his injury problems. He's already had sports hernia at 18. And sports hernia is something you very rarely recover 100% from. Patrick is more developed than Hischier. But Hischier is not just an elite offensive talent. His coach says he trusts Hischier to kill penalties, even 5 on 3s, Hischier plays regularly the last minute of every period. That to me instantly puts him in the 'above average' at the very least, in terms of defensive capability for a potential 1C
  6. I thought its NHL and AHL combined ? Coz pro in NHL terms is AHL + NHL, no ? yes, i am aware of that article but i don't think its right. Because min 40 or more games is required for who we HAVE TO expose. But players who meet 3 or more years of pro experience cannot be protected. Meaning, they are not the players we are officially exposing to meet exposing criterias, but get exposed anyways.
  7. How though ? The rules say 1st & 2nd year pros, this is Goldy's 3rd year as a pro....
  8. Is Goldobin expansion draft exempt ? There are articles saying he is, but when i read the rules, only 1st & 2nd year pros are exempt and Goldy is on his third season of AHL/NHL....
  9. Yeah. Shades of Eric Staal in Patrick. very well put. But Hischier has shades of Modano in him. Very fast and very good hands.
  10. IMO, Hischier is the best fit. He is surprisingly good at killing penalties and his coach trusts him with final minute plays. Indicates that he is at worst, above average already for elite forward's defensive capabilities. And his elite forward offensive capabilities are pretty normal trajectory for a 1C. Fast, crazy hands, slick passing, good shot. But IMO, Hischier is gonna go #1, so i am pretty sure we'd have to win the draft lottery to draft Hischier. Patrick is the safest bet, in terms of translating his play to a medium-high end 1C (his offensive abilities do not impress me as much. He is a more developed player but hoister is clearly the better pure goalscorer/playmaker combo) but his injury cases are a concern. Some articles say he may not even go in top 3.
  11. Well, I am not saying he will be another Bo, but he is showing the same signs. Guy is very good in the face-off dot, he back-checks well, is positionally sound, dishes some very sweet passes and scores in front of the net- not exactly garbage goals, but the kind where you beat the defence, skate up to the goalie and shoot form a few feet out. He also cycles very well and is possibly the best cycle-guy in this draft. Cycling is always hard for juniors, because it requires a really advanced sense of positioning- both for self and the teammates. Most top-tier guys are not good cycle guys or atleast very good at it. I still remember the first season of Crosby and pretty much the only thing offensively he couldn't do back then, was cycle. He isn't exceptionally fast (or atleast, all the other forwards are faster than him in the top 10) but he isn't exactly slow either. Plus he is big- already 6'2 and pushing 195 lbs. I see him as an exceptionally safe pick and IMO, we could use a guy who is a complete package down the middle, more so than a riskier, flashier player in the long run.
  12. I'd be happy with a Raffi Torres at this point...
  13. i don't think so. i saw a few windsor games. he isn't blazingly fast but he is above average in the OHL.
  14. I doubt it, since Villardi is a Horvat-Type of a player, very well rounded, with no weaknesses - in the defensive or offensive zone. Overall, I'd rather have 2 Jonathan Toews/Bergeron (ceiling for horvat-Villardi IMO) than the quintessential 'high offence-high defence' 1-2 combo of top 2 centres, because two top quality 2-way centers are much more wearing down to play against.
  15. I am hoping we pick Villardi. A combination of Horvat-Villardi as #1-2C would give us the best 1-2 punch in centres after the Penguins.
  16. Yeah, much like Bo was in his draft, sitting around the #5-10 mark. But he is, so far, the best forward of his class because the likes of McKinnon and Barkov are nowhere close to Horvat in the defensive side of things, though they are slightly ahead in the offensive categories. Villardi IMO is going to be the same kind of player. I've seen a few windsor games this year and this kid IMO is going to be the best of his class and IMO, the safest pick of them all. He doesnt have any glaring deficiencies/red flags the others ahead of him does ( Hischier : size and grit, Patrick : injury history & durability, Rasmussen: 5on5 effectiveness, Necas: Size & grit, etc). One thing that stands out about Villardi and one of the reasons i think he will be the best overall forward of his class, is because the kid is 17 and exceptionally good at the cycle game for his age. This shows above average intelligence.
  17. The real sleeper from this draft is going to be Villardi. IMO, i'd actually draft him, because he has what it takes to be like Bo Horvat - kid's got everything, including size and is a better skater at this age than Bo.
  18. Kind of saddened we don't get an 'Antoine Vermette' type deal with him. Was looking forward to having Burrows in the team next year.
  19. *Edit, i cant get rid of the above quote tag, so not directed t SilentSam* Can we restrict Gudbranson talk to his thread and not Tryamkin ? This whole 'analytics vs eye test' talk has been done to death. Some people will consider stats to be all-encompassing, no-matter what and some people will keep pointing out that stats are limited view, which doesn't take every intangible in account. Both are right , which is why it is rare to see an actual mathematician/statistician get bent out of shape in this discussion.
  20. I am not denying any of that. I am simply saying that for a defenceman, who has such an active stick like Tryamkin, he probably won't be as physically involved as Chara, a defenceman who doesnt have an active stick very often.
  21. Tryamkin needs more time. IMO, he isn't going to be a Chara, simply because he is a better skater than Chara & has a way more active stick. So IMO, by default, he will be less physical because he is going to dedicate more play-time 'poking the puck/attempting to poke the puck' than Chara. Which means automatically, less number of hits and therefore, less number of 'crushing hits'. Because most of the time, when you poke at the puck on someone else's stick, you either: a) jar the puck loose b ) take over the puck c) fail & player blows by you. Because in most cases of you 'crushed the player after you poked the puck free' , you'd get a penalty, rightly so, because its goon-isn.
  22. TBF, its a concern for most teams and their big guys getting a mean streak- once you cross the 6'6 threshold, most teams do restrain their 'humongous guy' initially- unless of course, the mean streak is the only thing the guy's got (which is not the case here).
  23. If i were Benning, i'd offer Tryamkin a 3/3.5 million for 8 years type of deal. Will be overpayment for the first 2 years of the deal (not by much), but will be a steal and half for the last 4 years of it. A bit of Duncan Keith-esque deal.
  24. Gaunce is a keeper. He is an excellent fit on our 4th line, with his skill-set. I see him as a potential Steve Ott.
  25. Less than a year ago, Gudbransson was the most important Panther defence man in the playoffs. You don't go from being the most important defence man in a playoff team to useless in a bottom feeder team in less than a year when you are not even 25. Its more than likely that Guddy is having a slow adjustment to the Western Conference style of hockey and needs some time figuring things out, with a better defensively capable partner than our weakest defensive defence man (Ben Hutton), who is just a weaker version of Erhoff.
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