2018 Draft - Who Would You Have Picked?

[snailderby]

Who would you have taken at #6, #30, #33, #36, #67, #81, #84, #98, #160, and #191? It could be fun to look at our picks a year from now and see just how misguided we were.



Here's last year's thread, for reference: https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/2017-draft-who-would-you-have-picked.2362823/.

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[Frk It]

Really happy with this year's draft, but this is a fun exercise I enjoy doing.

#6 - Noah Dobson (pumped with Zadina as well)
#30 - Joe Veleno
#33 - Serron Noel
#36 - Jared McIsaac
#67 - Jake Wise
#81 - Filip Kral
#83 - Alex Khovanov
#98 - Slava Demin
#160 - Xavier Bouchard
#191 - Amir Miftakhov

 

[TheMule93]

6 - Zadina
30 - Veleno
33 - Berggren
36 - Wilde
67 - Wise

after this I have no clue who any of the prospects remaining were

 

[Ulysses31]

Zadina and Veleno for sure.. dont follow prospects close enough to have an educated opinion beyond that

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

Zadina Veleno Berggren Mcisaac Wise khovanov

 

[Henkka]

It would have been interesting, if San Jose would have won Vegas on a playoff series.

I think our picks would have been:

#6, #23, #32 #36

Then our picks would have probably been

#6 Zadina
#23 Merkley
#32 Veleno/Berggren
#36 McIsaac

 

[snailderby]

#6 - Filip Zadina (L)
#30 - Joe Veleno (C)
#33 - Jonatan Berggren (R/C)
#36 - Jared McIsaac (D)
#67 - Alec Regula (D)
#81 - Seth Barton (D)
#83 - Joey Keane (D)

or Matej Pekar (C/L)
or Linus Karlsson (C)​

#98 - Slava Demin (D)
#160 - Xavier Bouchard (D)
#191 - Marcus Westfalt (C) (ranked 123/115/131/162)

or Luka Burzan (C) (ranked 110/70/58/127)
or Danila Galenyuk (ranked 157/121/40/96)
or Pavel Gogolev (R) (ranked 158/85/119/74)
or Nando Eggenberger (W) (ranked 183/88/97/100)
or Kyle Topping (C) (ranked 87/118/140/124)
or Eric Florchuk (C) (ranked 127/96/78/168)
or Egor Zamula (D) (ranked 199/105/100/128)
or Adam Samuelsson (D) (ranked 172/151/74/132)
or Brendan Budy (C) (ranked --/201/162/205)​

 

[Henkka]

https://www.mlive.com/expo/sports/erry-2018/06/cc338b19d81040/will_red_wings_trade_a_forward.html

In any event, I think Zadina will make the team in the fall. Since they were able to land Zadina, I don't think they'll purse Thomas Vanek in free agency, which they planned to do if they had selected a defenseman at No. 6 (Evan Bouchard would have been their choice if Zadina had been off the board).

Evan Bouhard would have been the pick, if Zadina would not fall.

 

[Ezekial]

Zadina
Veleno
Wilde
McIssac/one of the other D


I do like the Berg pick, though, could turn out to be a huge steal

 

[Hatter of the Beach]

#6 - Zadina
#30 - Joe Veleno
#33 - Akil Thomas
#36 - Jared McIsaac/Woo (was Wilde at the time but if so many people passed on him, and with us only picking 1 d, I get it)
#67 - Jake Wise

Don’t know enough about the rest, but I would have taken a fliar on eggenberger as well

 

[RedWingsfan55]

Only change I make is wilde at 33. For the top 4.


After that not sure, making taken lapointes kid in the 7th because you know family ties and it worked with the bertuzzi pick(even though he could've been taken in the 7th as he was rated like 280).

 

[Blueliner70]

I'm happy with the draft. So are the so-called hockey people.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

6. Zadina
30. Samuelsson
33. Wilde
36. McIsaac

 

[HisNoodliness]

6.Zadina (very torn between him and Boqvist but I'm going with Zadina now)
30.Veleno
33.Berggren
36.Wilde
67.Wise
81. Shafigullan
84.Dostal
98.Gross
160.Kjellberg
191.Kivenmaki

 

[Nut Upstrom]

I'm happy with the draft. So are the so-called hockey people.

I'm happy with our actual draft also, just fun to play along with "who would you have picked?"
My research on players in the late 1st early 2nd focused almost entirely on defensemen, so I knew little of the forwards we picked, but am very happy with them.

 

[MikeyDee]

6.Zadina (very torn between him and Boqvist but I'm going with Zadina now)
30.Veleno
33.Berggren
36.Wilde
67.Wise
81. Shafigullan
84.Dostal
98.Gross
160.Kjellberg
191.Kivenmaki

Kivenmaki, really... you must think he is the next Zetterberg or just an Andersson brown-noser.

 

[lilidk]

I like first 5 for sure . Zavgorodny went 210 to flames could be steal of the draft and instead 2 goaltenders we could of get just 1

 

[HisNoodliness]

Kivenmaki, really... you must think he is the next Zetterberg or just an Andersson brown-noser.

I have no one I knew about left so I just stuck with the Wings pick. But I like going for tiny skill guys especially in the seventh.

Went with Kjellberg just for the name. We need a K-berg to replace Z-berg.

 

[MikeyDee]

#6 - Bouchard
#30 - Akil Thomas
#33 - Serron Noel
#36 - Jett Woo
the rest all the same until
#191 - Nathan Dunkley

 

[jkutswings]

Are we assuming no trades?

It's fair to include that requirement, or to allow for it, as long as reasonable evidence is provided for fair pick value. But it makes a big difference in who I'd list.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Are we assuming no trades?

It's fair to include that requirement, or to allow for it, as long as reasonable evidence is provided for fair pick value. But it makes a big difference in who I'd list.

I see what your attempting to play into, as we would all love to say "get Zadina at 6 and move up for Dobson" or something of the sort, but I think it's entirely too subjective. You can grab a pick value chart as your evidence, but I don't see that as being reliable because everything evolves differently from draft to draft. The popular demand was trading up to 12 to pick Dobson; you show me a valuation chart that you find reasonable, I'm still going to be under the impression that the pick wasn't for sale after how things played out 1-10.

I'd say you can't change the organization's approach to when they picked; only who they picked with their pre-existing picks. That allows for comparison from list to list without taking into consideration realism or other variables.

 

[jkutswings]

I see what your attempting to play into, as we would all love to say "get Zadina at 6 and move up for Dobson" or something of the sort, but I think it's entirely too subjective. You can grab a pick value chart as your evidence, but I don't see that as being reliable because everything evolves differently from draft to draft. The popular demand was trading up to 12 to pick Dobson; you show me a valuation chart that you find reasonable, I'm still going to be under the impression that the pick wasn't for sale after how things played out 1-10.

I'd say you can't change the organization's approach to when they picked; only who they picked with their pre-existing picks. That allows for comparison from list to list without taking into consideration realism or other variables.

That's fair, but also realize it's a huge assumption that changing an earlier pick does not change who's available for a later pick.

 

[raymond23]

Kivenmaki, really... you must think he is the next Zetterberg or just an Andersson brown-noser.

Yikes.

 

[Frk It]

Are we assuming no trades?

It's fair to include that requirement, or to allow for it, as long as reasonable evidence is provided for fair pick value. But it makes a big difference in who I'd list.

Post one with, and one without if you want.

I always do mine with the actual picks we have.

 

[Ezekial]

I would assume no trades because assuming a team wants to trade with us is some NHL 19 type stuff.