2018 NHL Entry Draft Thread (Less then 24 Hours Edition)

[Seb]

Gotta prepare ourselves, we might truly pick Tkatchuk.

 

[Mrb1p]

@NotProkofievian

After reading Bobs article, Kaut underwent the procedure I talked about earlier.

He probably had what we call TSVP, and more specifically, Wolff-Parkinson-White (though the cardiologist who did the procedurr apparently thinks he didnt even have it).

So it was basically preventive?

 

[Andrei79]

So it was basically preventive?

No, he probably had palpitations during testing (or felt awful), they ran an EKG and found it. The ablations a cure. The european docs werent convinced he had it though. Dunno if he had the procedure done in the CR, but Id trust US docs over them. They're incredibly underpaid and have had a signififant exodus of their MDs over the years.

 

[WinterLion]

Gotta prepare ourselves, we might truly pick Tkatchuk.

I'm ready!!! Not my first choice, but I'm ok with it!

I'm in the K-nemi Dobson camp at the moment!!

 

[WinterLion]

Bob saying there is not much difference between 20-65 definitely reinforces how we've been seeing it around here! Gotta like those 4 picks right now. I hope we keep them and pick!!

 

[BenchBrawl]

If we don't take the tall center it's just stupid by this point.Fck Zadina or any winger.Take the tall center.20+ years and counting without a real center.

 

[BenchBrawl]

TAKE THE TALL CENTER AT 3RD OVERALL

STOP THE FARCE

 

[Saxon]

If all you have to offer is an argument of authority, please stop wasting everyone's time. We know the concensus ranking we don't need you to tell us. It's a discussion board where we share our opinions....

 

[MrNasty]

I compared Bob's list with the consensus from 16 other online sources. All but two of the top 80 were on his list. (Khovanov and Roman absent)

Some notable risers:
Pretty much all the goalies - not many other sources value goaltenders
Foudy
Kaut
OBrien
Johansson
Madden
Dostal
Harris
Gross
Romanov

Some notable droppers:
Hallander
Tychonick
Olofsson
Berggren
Dudas
Wise
Hillis
Gustafsson
McShane
Fonstad
Kurashev

 

[WinterLion]

I compared Bob's list with the consensus from 16 other online sources. All but two of the top 80 were on his list. (Khovanov and Roman absent)

Some notable risers:
Pretty much all the goalies - not many other sources value goaltenders
Foudy
Kaut
OBrien
Johansson
Madden
Dostal
Harris
Gross
Romanov

Some notable droppers:
Hallander
Tychonick
Olofsson
Berggren
Dudas
Wise
Hillis
Gustafsson
McShane
Fonstad
Kurashev

He also said it is extremely close this year between 20-65... more so than most years...

 

[David Suzuki]

I tend to try and trust Timmins. He does well I think with top end talent that he'd see a lot. So be it if they take Kotka. It worries me and feels like a panic move, but what can you do.

 

[yianik]

Think Merkley could play the wing ?

 

[WinterLion]

Think Merkley could play the wing ?

That's not the problem.

 

[Doublechin]

I am 100 percent convinced that we will end up with Kotkaniemi or Dobson and no one else. Just trade down to 5, grab an extra 2nd and pick which ever is available.

 

[BeliveauFan4ever]

Won't happen but...

We take Kotkaneimi, then, after spending the next few days of this week discarding a couple of guys non-essential to our long-term future, Bergy then has another first and a total of six 2nd-round picks, current four and two more.

Draftniks of other teams, I can see the hate.

 

[Andrei79]

Bokk, Ragnarsson and Fehervary unranked due to lack of viewings.

1. Dahlin
2. Svechnikov
3. Kotkaniemi
4. Boqvist
5. Dobson
6. Wahlstrom
7. Zadina
8. Kravtsov
9. Smith
10. Hughes
11. Tkachuk
12. Farabee
13. Denisenko
14. Alexeyeev
15. Lundkvist
16. Berggren
17. Wise
18. Hayton
19. Bouchard
20. Zhuravlyov
21. Shafigullin
22. Sandin
23. Fonstad
24. Ylonen
25. Lundestrom
26. Hallander
27. Kaut
28. McLaughlin
29. Dellandrea
30. Woo
31. Topping

Round 2
32. Miller
33. Foudy
34. O'brien
35. Adddison
36. Iskhakov
37. Tychonick
38. Noel
39. Morozov
40. Olofsson
41. Thomas
42. Veleno
43. Wilde
44. Marchenko
45. Andersson
46. Johansson
47. Hillis
48. Durzi
49. Beaudin
50. McIsaac
51. Bernard-Docker
52. McShane
53. Khovanov
54. Kurashev
55. Kovalenko
56. Demin
57. Kupari
58. Jenik
59. Regula
60. Stastney
61. Emberson
62. Gustafsson

Thats it for the top 62. Had 120 players ranked, cut it down to 85. Merkley is 75.

 

[ProspectsFanatic]

Bokk, Ragnarsson and Fehervary unranked due to lack of viewings.

1. Dahlin
2. Svechnikov
3. Kotkaniemi
4. Boqvist
5. Dobson
6. Wahlstrom
7. Zadina
8. Kravtsov
9. Smith
10. Hughes
11. Tkachuk
12. Farabee
13. Denisenko
14. Alexeyeev
15. Lundkvist
16. Berggren
17. Wise
18. Hayton
19. Bouchard
20. Zhuravlyov
21. Shafigullin
22. Sandin
23. Fonstad
24. Ylonen
25. Lundestrom
26. Hallander
27. Kaut
28. McLaughlin
29. Dellandrea
30. Woo
31. Topping

Round 2
32. Miller
33. Foudy
34. O'brien
35. Adddison
36. Iskhakov
37. Tychonick
38. Noel
39. Morozov
40. Olofsson
41. Thomas
42. Veleno
43. Wilde
44. Marchenko
45. Andersson
46. Johansson
47. Hillis
48. Durzi
49. Beaudin
50. McIsaac
51. Bernard-Docker
52. McShane
53. Khovanov
54. Kurashev
55. Kovalenko
56. Demin
57. Kupari
58. Jenik
59. Regula
60. Stastney
61. Emberson
62. Gustafsson

Thats it for the top 62. Had 120 players ranked, cut it down to 85. Merkley is 75.

Very bold I like it!

 

[yianik]

That's not the problem.

There are a couple of problems. His defence , or lack thereof, and whether he is a nut. If he can play wing his lack of D isn't anywhere as much of a problem, since, you know, he wouldn't be a defenceman. So one issue somewhat addressed, the nut part question remains.

 

[Andrei79]

Very bold I like it!

Yeah, might make me look like a genius, or a donkey.

I went for the guys I liked, whom I'd like to have on my team and the guys I would put my job on the line if I was a scout. I wouldn't for Kupari or Bouchard, for example, so they dropped big time.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

TAKE THE TALL CENTER AT 3RD OVERALL

STOP THE FARCE

Curtis Douglas ?

 

[Mrb1p]

I tend to try and trust Timmins. He does well I think with top end talent that he'd see a lot. So be it if they take Kotka. It worries me and feels like a panic move, but what can you do.

A panic move? Kotkaniemi is likely 2 years away.

 

[Fazkovsky]

Galchenyuk is the proof that no matter how good you are footspeed can be an issue

Yet we are big on kotkaniemi

 

[David Suzuki]

A panic move? Kotkaniemi is likely 2 years away.

Taking a centre when it's probably not the BPA isn't a panic move?

 

[Andrei79]

Galchenyuk is the proof that no matter how good you are footspeed can be an issue

Yet we are big on kotkaniemi

Footspeed isnt why Galchy failed here.

 

[Mrb1p]

Taking a centre when it's probably not the BPA isn't a panic move?

BPA is a weird term. What does it even mean? At what point does position come into play? Are you denying the higher value of players in relation to their position and play style? Kotkaniemi checks more value boxes than anyone save Dahlin in the draft if youre honest. Hes big, a center, controls the play, can play any role on your team and hes able to score goals. Was PLD over Puljujarvi a panic move? Was Scheifele over Couturier a panic move?