ghdi Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Kovy's here for the next million years, hopefully Zach, Zajac and the "kids" Palmeiri / Josefson / Tedenby are all here for the long haul. That is forward talent for quite some time.... aka years to come. As for "D", your Mid Pairing comment is exactly why I suggest we use the pick to get a potential Doughty (unless RNH is available). For whatever reason, I am big fan of Hamilton.... We also have good defensive prospects right now in Jon Merrill and Brandon Burlon (both at Michigan), as well as Urbom and Eric Gelinas, the latter two are closer to the NHL than anyone we may draft defensively. Offensively, most of our top prospects are already in the NHL or just outside, i.e. Henrique. We are severely lacking anything offensively in terms of depth on the farm. RNH is not going to be available. Out of all the rumored top 5 picks, he is the one name I dont think we have a shot at. Everyone else a case could be made for them to fall i.e. Larsson and Landeskog. With Urbom and Gelinas relatively close, our lack of offensive depth should be the priority this draft, if and only if, Adam Larsson is there. He's pretty much a consensus "sure thing", or as close to one as you can get in scouting defense which takes longer to develop. We also have to consider that Patrik Elias is getting older. Brian Rolston is gone after next year, Clarkson provides very little, and despite the first year successes of Palmieri, Josefson, and Tedenby, they may not maintain that success going forward. We can get an impact player on the offensive side of the puck right now with our top 5 pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterioDesign Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 one thing is that we're looking at a future with lots of skills but very little grit up front... thats something you really need in the playoffs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroGravityFat Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 the rugged player up front is usually cheap and not too hard to find around trade deadline. we can grab one from waivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghdi Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 the rugged player up front is usually cheap and not too hard to find around trade deadline. we can grab one from waivers. We've got a legitimate chance to grab a future #1 center in the draft. Waivers? When was the last time we picked up someone from waivers that was worth a damn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Rolston really turned his game around after we picked him up off waivers this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheprodigy Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Rolston really turned his game around after we picked him up off waivers this year. ...and started playing him with Elias full-time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghdi Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Rolston really turned his game around after we picked him up off waivers this year. Being stuck with a guy and picking up someone is a bit different, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elias2600 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) ghdi is right about our prospect depth. If we were drafting for prospect needs, we would take a forward. That said, I think we'll be taking BPA at #4, because that's the right thing to do. For fun though, let's examine why forward prospects would be our current need. We had some forward prospect depth recently, but now most of those promising players have graduated or about to. Our farm for promising forwards is pretty much down to Adam Henrique (with some unknowns being Mike Sislo, David Wohlberg, and Mike Hoeffel). The rest of our forwards are pretty much long-shots to reach their original potential at this point. This lack of forward depth has come about quicker than expected due to the Devils playing most of the season with 4 rookie forwards in the lineup (and by trading away Halischuk, Bergfors, and Cormier in the last year). Now you could say that we're fine for a while because these recently graduated guys are young and will play for a long time, but ideally you always want to have balance in your system. On defense, our promising prospect list has: Merril Urbom Burlon Gelinas Sova (still mostly unknown) Graduated, or close to it Fayne Taormina That's a great list that has me pretty excited, but it's much longer than our list for promising forwards. Considering you need twice as many forwards in your lineup as you need dmen, I would say that our system is currently out of balance. At #4, it's still got to be BPA all the way though. I think we'll see us trend with more forwards in the later rounds of the next few drafts though. Edited April 18, 2011 by elias2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risky Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 I miss all the posters who regularly picked up on -- and ignored -- my subtle flights of sarcasm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanity_gallops Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 I miss all the posters who regularly picked up on -- and ignored -- my subtle flights of sarcasm. Hey, I'm still along for the ride. Sarcasm's just a lost art on this board nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheprodigy Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 I miss all the posters who regularly picked up on -- and ignored -- my subtle flights of sarcasm. Hard to pick up on that sarcasm since a lot of people on here really are in love with Rolston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Hard to pick up on that sarcasm since a lot of people on here really are in love with Rolston. no they're not, and it should've been pretty easy (considering what risky said was factually incorrect) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheprodigy Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 no they're not, and it should've been pretty easy (considering what risky said was factually incorrect) Um, yes. Some are. I'm sure a lot of the posters here would agree that Rolston "turned his game up" after the waiver incident. I assumed the factually incorrect part was just poorly worded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsrule33 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) Let's do it again. Edited April 29, 2013 by devilsrule33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neb00rs Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Let's do it again. If you're down, I'm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DH26 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) there's a former Devil who's now unemployed who Lou should send to the lottery. He has a pretty good track record with this thing: Edited April 29, 2013 by DH26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsfan118 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 COME ON BABY, DO IT AGAIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMinder Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Oops we did it again! I hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onddeck Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Haha we should've made this a GDT.. Lets go boys!! Bring us a victory tonight haha LGD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDEVS1730 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 COME ON BABY, DO IT AGAIN Shouldn't the logo in the background say 2011?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 (edited) That looks like a photoshop, probably made on HFBoards in April 2011 Edited April 29, 2013 by Triumph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njdevsftw Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Can I watch the lottery somewhere online? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snartly Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Can I watch the lottery somewhere online? Here you go: http://nutjob.eu/njtvx18.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zubie#8 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Oh boo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilMinder Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Bahhh Lol Sent from my HTC DNA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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