GDT: 2020 NHL Entry Draft - Day 2

[Ola]

Say what you want, trading a 7th overall pick for a 60th pick in a couple short years just plain stinks and is bad asset management.

I like it, you make bad picks, horrible picks. Nobody will strike 100%.

Many handle their mistakes really poorly. Moving Lias is risky for Gorton, not NYR. Many GMs just let the kid rot.

Move on, it’s the right call. Make the 60 count instead.

 

[GAGLine]

Say what you want, trading a 7th overall pick for a 60th pick in a couple short years just plain stinks and is bad asset management.

Shit happens. Not every pick is going to work out.

 

[Ghost of jas]

I dont like the value for Lias Anderson

Cuylle will be a better player than Lias. I said it.

 

[mas0764]

I dont like the value for Lias Anderson

Would have been nice to get 35 so we could have gotten Khusnutdinov or 45 so we could have gotten Mysack, but oh well. What's done is done.

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Not when the player turns the team down later on. What were the Rangers supposed to do? Lias gets what he wants to prove himself on a different team. The Rangers get a good prospect in Cuylle.

It was already a shit situation. It would've been bad asset management had Lias continued to try to make the Rangers.

Shit happens. Not every pick is going to work out.

I hear ya. I suppose the real fault is on management for picking him in the first place and not seeing some of his character flaws in interviews. It's not totally fair to the team to place blame, but just as you congratulate them for some great picks like Buch, Chytil ect, you have to be critical when something like this happens as well.

 

[Joey Bones]

Oh now they're moving!!

 

[haohmaru]

 

[Mikos87]

I like the pick of Cuylle, but was intrigued by Sokolov. Big, productive. Maybe skating an issue?

Conditioning is what I heard.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Cuylle will be a better player than Lias. I said it.

Really setting a high bar for him I see

 

[Joey Bones]

Niemela to Toronto.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

the A+ continues with replacing Lias with a fresh prospect.

 

[Edge]

And I think that's why the NYR grabbed him where they did. NYR have a lot of high-IQ guys now. He can easily ride passenger on a line while somebody else controls the shift!

I always tried to grab him in Draft Sim, the Rangers like his potential as someone who rides shotgun on a third line, maybe even can slide into a second line role if he progresses. Skill mixed with sandpaper, and another kid with a clearly defined identity as an NHL prospect.

 

[rangers1314]

I remember sitting there opening night last year when he tripped over the camera wire.

I knew right then and there this kid had to go. He was never going to succeed here.

 

[lakeshirts37]

Yeah, I really hate the Schneider and Cuylle picks after making great picks for high upside, skillfull, high IQ players from all over the globe in 2018 and 2019. Afraid that we are going in a worrying direction after trading up twice to take two big physical low skill players.

Lias Andersson is a much better player up have goingh forward than Will Cuylle.

Bookmarked!

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Well we covered each of the CHL leagues.

 

[Joey Bones]

Man, Goncalves went way too early!!

 

[NYRFANMANI]

I remember sitting there opening night last year when he tripped over the camera wire.

I knew right then and there this kid had to go. He was never going to succeed here.

Many of us had an "oh shit, that's an omen" moment.

 

[AB13]

Bookmarked!

Yeah, please prove me wrong in a couple years. Would make me very happy to be wrong about this.

 

[dshea19]

I always tried to grab him in Draft Sim, the Rangers like his potential as someone who rides shotgun on a third line, maybe even can slide into a second line role if he progresses. Skill mixed with sandpaper, and another kid with a clearly defined identity as an NHL prospect.

You mean things we complain about not having enough of and are needed to win in the playoffs?

 

[Tob]

You know you've done something wrong when you've upset Leslie.

 

[Machinehead]

Sam Rosen fist-pumping in the virtual fan zone after we drafted Lafreniere is the most wholesome thing I've ever seen.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Lias is now their Kjellberg

 

[Machinehead]

I remember sitting there opening night last year when he tripped over the camera wire.

I knew right then and there this kid had to go. He was never going to succeed here.

To be fair, it was indicative of his skating ability.

 

[Savant]

Cuylle was 30th on the Rangers list.

I thought they were going up for Biondi. I guess Biondi > 30th then.

 

[Rempe73]

That’s a good trade. I remember reading a year or two ago that 1st round reclamation projects usually cost a 2nd round pick. For example, someone like DeAngelo was traded by the Lightning to the Coyotes for a 2nd. And Andersson has less upside than DeAngelo in my opinion, and this is supposedly a deep draft, so even if it’s a late 2nd, it’s still good. I don’t know a lot about this prospect though, so I can’t comment on the pick itself