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18 minutes ago, 2ELIAS6 said:
Hughes and kakko, one is a center and one is a wing correct? any further information on either of them, talent wise etc?
Correct, Hughes is a center and Kakko is a winger. I'm expecting a similar impact out of them at the top of the draft as we saw when Matthews and Laine went #1 and #2 in 2016. Hughes is a smaller forward with elite skill, skating, and playmaking ability, and Kakko is having one of the best U18 seasons in the history of the Finnish Elite League, he's also really skilled with elite smarts, though his skating isn't nearly as good as Hughes. Some people are saying Kakko is legitimately starting to challenge for the top spot, I wouldn't go that far, but he's closed the gap significantly between him and Hughes.
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14 hours ago, Jerzey said:
This mock has us taking Zegras with our 1st. I won’t pretend to know anything about him so I’ll just say sounds good to me. I’m sure one of you can give a better opinion/valuation of this pick.
Zegras is arguably the best playmaking center in this draft, but he really is a pure playmaker kind of guy like Nick Backstrom. Zegras' vision is elite and he's one of the smartest players in this draft, he's a natural center but he's played on the LW on Jack Hughes' line as well this season.
I wouldn't hate the idea of Zegras at that spot, but there's a handful of players I would prefer, including Podkolzin in spite of the Russian factor (that kid is simply amazing, you take the risk imo). I would likely consider Cozens and Dach ahead of him, but I'm starting to consider bumping Zegras ahead of those two the more I watch Zegras.
EDIT: Just wanted to show a clip of how good of a playmaker Zegras is, it's plays like this that make me think he has a chance of getting into the top 5. He was great at this tournament, #11 on USA.
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Let's Go Binghamton
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23 minutes ago, MadDog2020 said:
Holy sh!t, Yakovlev is skating up front lmfao.
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2 minutes ago, mfitz804 said:
I think we can’t worry so much about why guys would want to come here. There’s nothing we can do about that, other than present our case and make the offer. If they don’t take it, then that’s on them.
If we don’t offer, that’s on us.
That being said, I maintain the same position about giving up four 1sts for one player.
There's very few players that I would give up four 1st's for. Don't think Marner is one of them, Laine might be though because I really do see him as the guy Ovechkin is going to pass the torch to in regards to being the best goal scorer in the league. The thought of having Laine receiving passes from Taylor Hall, Nico Hischier, and Ty Smith on our powerplay for the next decade is so damn enticing.
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7 minutes ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
As much as the idea of offer-sheeting seems like a cool “outside the box” way of thinking, it seems like a waste of time...I’d have to look it up, but doesn’t the team with the right to match usually just do that anyway?
I know the Blues coughed up five firsts for Stevens way back when...I also remember that the Caps didn’t really do all that well with those firsts. Going off the top of my head, but I think Gonchar and (to a much lesser extent) Witt were the only two to pan out.
I think if we were to offer sheet Kasperi Kapanen to something in the neighborhood of $4.5M or $5M, Toronto wouldn't have the capacity to match with how tight they are against the cap. Same story with Winnipeg, it's the combination of having good RFAs available with their teams being up against the cap that I think actually makes an offer sheet feasible this summer.
If the Leafs don't find a way to move out Nikita Zaitsev at the draft, they're going to leave themselves very vulnerable. They're gonna need that money as offer sheet insurance.
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As much as it would be sexy to land someone like a Marner or Laine, the price it would take to land those guys would likely force us to give up four 1st's as compensation. If we are the "offer sheet" team this summer like some are saying, I think the better play is for someone like Kyle Connor or Kasperi Kapanen who we could likely lock up into a contract that would only cost a 2nd or just one 1st to sign.
Jacob Trouba would also be awesome to get in an offer sheet, but I really think we could use another bonafide top 6 option.
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9 minutes ago, MadDog2020 said:
Oh. My. GOD.
This is exactly what I needed on a slow Tuesday. Thank you Islanders, you bitter ex-girlfriend of an organization.
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This is just so, so comically bad lmao
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There's a few intriguing players I think we could nab with those 2nd and 3rd rounders this year. Patrik Puistola, Nathan Legare, and maybe even Pavel Dorofeyev are all guys I could see us getting in the early 2nd (Philip Tomasino would be my pipe dream, but the way I see it he'll be a 1st round lock by season's end), and then if we nabbed anyone from the Russian class this year I'd be happy. I really love all of Dmitri Sheshin, Yegor Spiridonov, Yegor Afanasyev, Mikhail Abramov, and Yegor Serdyuk. We got options if we use all those picks, for sure.
EDIT: Matvei Guskov too, I could see him having a breakout year next year for London if he stays there
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Only thing I’ll say regarding those comments is that it’s “better for Keith’s career.” Like bud, do you really think playing 3rd string behind two established netminders on a bubble team is some sort of can’t miss opportunity?
Maybe Keith could help me on this one: is there a facepalm emoji?
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Oh baby I wanna see Pittsburgh play Johnson and Gudbranson on the same pair. Those two are so bad and stats people will be screaming their heads off at it
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Erik Brannstrom one of the pieces going the other way to the Sens, that's a real significant piece, Brannstrom is the real deal
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Just now, Lateralous said:
Nashville traded Fiala to Minnesota for Granlund
That's an awful trade for the Wild, all they do is get a bit younger but Granlund is a legitimate top 6 center. They left so much value on the table IMO
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Keith Kinkaid got traded for a 14 year old. Lmao
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I’ve watched a lot of Toronto games over the past few years so I’m somewhat familiar with Carrick. He someone I actually prefer on the right side over Lovejoy, and he’s significantly younger than Lovejoy. Getting him and a 3rd for Rev was awesome work by Ray, this is a great deal
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Sounds like they're likely to keep Panarin and Bobrovsky and just let it all ride on this year. Gotta respect a team like Columbus pushing their chips in and going for it, but wow they're gonna be set quite a ways back if they don't win and they lose Panarin, Bobrovsky, and *maybe* Duchene for nothing. I have a feeling they'll be able to keep Duchene though, just a hunch
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I personally think this has been Damon's best season in the NHL, sure he has the occasional defensive gaff but that's really just the kind of defenseman he is, you're gonna have to deal with that once in a while. Personally, I think in broad strokes, he's been one of our more reliable defensemen in our own zone and he's easily our most dangerous defenseman as a goal scoring threat. I really like me some Damon Severson, I think he's part of the solution here. There's a lot of teams that would kill to have a young, mobile, right shot defenseman with term on an affordable contract.
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It's pretty amazing how 90% of the posters on here were saying we'd be lucky to get a 3rd for Mojo 3 weeks ago and now are saying we shouldn't even bother trading him unless he brings back a 1st. Time flies, man.
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3 minutes ago, NJDfan1711 said:
The Lightning and Vasilevsky almost had 3 shutouts in a row last night, but Columbus scored in the final minute of the game. Before that, their last 3 games were 6-0, 3-0, and 5-0 before eventually winning 5-1. Their team looks unstoppable. I guess there's the possibility that they may tire and fizzle out early, but it almost seems like the remaining 20 games are just a formality before they go through the playoffs and steamroll everyone. The best thing going for them is that their team is incredibly healthy at the moment, but even if they do suffer an injury or two, they're so deep it seems like it would hardly matter. Their core of Stamkos, Kucherov, Point, Palat, Killorn, Headman, etc remains me of the 80s Oilers with Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Tikanen, Lowe, Coffey, etc.
Tampa should honestly try to find 8-10 games for Domingue to start in the final 22 games, their only real problem last year was that Vasilevskiy got burnt out at the end of the season and his play dipped, if they have a peak performance Vasilevskiy in goal with that core in front of him I'm not sure how anyone beats them in a 7 game series this year. They're so good.
Kucherov also got his 99th point last night. He's on pace for 135. Just absolutely insane.
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2 hours ago, Colorado Rockies 1976 said:
Rough weekend for Mac...gave up nine goals in 2 games over the weekend with Bingo. Season save% there down to .906. Not worried about him...he largely looked good up here, and he's one of the worst teams in the AHL.
Something I hadn't really thought of as well until recently when I was listening to 31 Thoughts, a lot of goalies say it's actually a bit easier in some respects playing in the NHL than the AHL in terms of having the game be more predictable. When you have a blue line full of NHLers in front of you you can generally predict where most of your shots are gonna come from and there's less randomness to some of the plays in comparison to how some plays develop in the minors. As long as Blackwood still has his technical abilities like his positioning and athleticism I wouldn't be massively concerned about him.
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4 hours ago, nessus said:
Thanks for sharing your post. My understanding is the team that drafts Hughes can expect to get an Eichel-level player. Then Kakko doesn't look like he's very far behind.
What is your opinion on the ceiling of someone like Podkolzin? He looks very impressive in the videos I've seen, and he did have a strong world juniors performance, but don't his numbers in the Russian leagues seem a bit low for someone who looks to be the consensus #3 in this draft? He doesn't seem anywhere close to being at the level of some of the recently drafted Russian players who have had major success at the NHL level, judging by MHL/VHL stats alone. Would you say that he is comparable to Kravtsov from the 2018 draft in terms of upside?
It seems that this is a strange draft in the sense that there are a lot of reports saying that the top 10 forwards after Kakko are all high level prospects, but it doesn't seem like many of them have put up points to suggest that this is a particularly strong draft class. Maybe I'm missing something here, but it almost seems like Byram wouldn't be a bad pick if you're outside the top 3.
The Russian leagues are more low scoring than most, so I always find it hard to gauge players just based on scoring pace alone. However, the player I see when I watch Podkolzin play is Nikita Kucherov – skilled, quick, competitive, good shot, Podkolzin shares all those traits with Kucherov and based off numbers their draft year numbers aren’t too far off from one another. Podkolzin in particular has been the best player at just about every international tournament he’s played at in the past year with the exception of the WJC, but even there I thought he was good despite being in a lesser role.
I’m actually a big fan of this draft class personally, particularly the top 11 or 12. Last year was a great year for defense and this year I think is a great year for centers. Alongside Hughes obviously being a stud, I think Cozens, Dach, and maybe Zegras have the potential to be top line centers with others like Newhook and Krebs knocking on the door to be considered in that vein as well. You’re right about Byram though, I think he’s hands down the best defenseman in this draft and he reminds me a lot of Pietrangelo in the way he can really play any brand you want from the backend, I think he’ll be a top pair guy someday
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Just posted my Midterm Rankings for this year's Draft. I talk about the top of the draft briefly which looks like it's going to be of interest to us. Also go over who's currently trending up and down for me, check it out if you'd like
https://ridingpinehockey.com/2019/02/14/2019-nhl-draft-rankings-midterms/
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Fvcking mother fvcker. Well that's the icing on the sh!t cake
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GDT: Blue Jackets @ (Binghamton) Devils 7:00 PM MSG+2
in Hell
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I thought McLeod's game last night was split right down the middle, the first half I thought he was just terrible and was turning the puck over a lot and looked panicked with the puck, but then the second half it seemed like he settled in and was making plays and nearly scored the game-winner. He was probably one of our best players in the 2nd half of that game while easily being one of our worst in the first half, hopefully he can settle in more with likely even more ice coming his way with all the injuries we have.