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Prospect Info: 2020 NHL Entry Draft Thread

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lilmaxo said:
What about the fans? Don’t we deserve anything? We been stuck with a mediocre team since 1993. Middle of the pack team that overachieve at times. We breath hockey around here, we deserve laffy. Our media don’t, I get that but the fans does
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Your team hasn't earned that chance. Try sucking harder and more often to get that opportunity.
 
MTL doesn't "deserve" Lafreniere any more than any other team. Is this seriously a thing? What is this, the 1970s?

It's not the LAK boards' fault you have a shitty GM, it's not Montreal's inheritance to claim francophone prospects, and it's not the proper forum to be fine-combing threads looking for something to martyr yourself on. Jeez.
 
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Raccoon Jesus said:
MTL doesn't "deserve" Lafreniere any more than any other team. Is this seriously a thing? What is this, the 1970s?

It's not the LAK boards' fault you have a shitty GM, it's not Montreal's inheritance to claim francophone prospects, and it's not the proper forum to be fine-combing threads looking for something to martyr yourself on. Jeez.
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After this post, I am going to start calling you Honey Badger Jesus
 
Doughty is a key player next year for better or worse.

If him and Kopitar can channel 2018, the support around them should be growing. No reason they can't be at least a bubble team, especially with Roy and Walker emerging as serious two-way options. If he doesn't pull it together, it doesn't matter if it's aging, a lack of effort, a lack of fitness, or whatever, his minutes pretty much dictate how the team goes. If he doesn't play well, neither does the team, and vice versa...and in good times and bad it's been that way since about 2010. It's why people outside this forum mistake him for a passenger when he's actually the engine, and the last couple of years the engine has been sputtering.

He needs to realize, even if he doesn't return to form as a player, that he needs to round into form as a mentor, as there are now kids playing who looked up to him as a role model.

I can understand if the inspiration wasn't there with Willie D and to a lesser degree this last year (with a kid, etc.), but moving forward, he can't pretend the team isn't taking things seriously. He has to lay himself on the line and stop avoiding contact and effort.
 
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Raccoon Jesus said:
Doughty is a key player next year for better or worse.

If him and Kopitar can channel 2018, the support around them should be growing. No reason they can't be at least a bubble team, especially with Roy and Walker emerging as serious two-way options. If he doesn't pull it together, it doesn't matter if it's aging, a lack of effort, a lack of fitness, or whatever, his minutes pretty much dictate how the team goes. If he doesn't play well, neither does the team, and vice versa...and in good times and bad it's been that way since about 2010. It's why people outside this forum mistake him for a passenger when he's actually the engine, and the last couple of years the engine has been sputtering.

He needs to realize, even if he doesn't return to form as a player, that he needs to round into form as a mentor, as there are now kids playing who looked up to him as a role model.

I can understand if the inspiration wasn't there with Willie D and to a lesser degree this last year (with a kid, etc.), but moving forward, he can't pretend the team isn't taking things seriously. He has to lay himself on the line and stop avoiding contact and effort.
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I agree with this. The way the team finished the season - including and especially Doughty, Kopitar, and Brown - was very encouraging. Over that seven game span..

Doughty: 5 assists, +5, 25:42 TOI
Kopitar: 3 goals, 6 points, +6, 22:29 TOI
Brown: 4 goals, 7 points, +6, 19:59 TOI

Adding some motivated younger guys will go a very long way to improving this team. I think we are officially out of the “losing” phase of the rebuild.
 
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kilowatt said:
I agree with this. The way the team finished the season - including and especially Doughty, Kopitar, and Brown - was very encouraging. Over that seven game span..

Doughty: 5 assists, +5, 25:42 TOI
Kopitar: 3 goals, 6 points, +6, 22:29 TOI
Brown: 4 goals, 7 points, +6, 19:59 TOI

Adding some motivated younger guys will go a very long way to improving this team. I think we are officially out of the “losing” phase of the rebuild.
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The "losing attitude" phase perhaps, the losing record phase, not quite yet.
 
KINGS17 said:
The "losing attitude" phase perhaps, the losing record phase, not quite yet.
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Maybe. Only seven teams had a losing record last season with respect to points percentage. We can debate overtime losses, but even Montreal (with the 8th-worst record in the league) technically had a .500 winning percentage.

I think we’ll be closer to making the playoffs than to finishing dead last.
 
I’d love to see the Kings trade down to #3 and get Stutzle and a d prospect ready for 2021. Adds more flexibility for the second round. That’s assuming the Senators highly covet Byfield.

The more I watch Stutzle, the more I see why the Kings staff is enamored with him. Guy skates like a shot out of a cannon and is among the best in dangling. Compares to Kane, imo.
 
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DryIslandBartender said:
I’d love to see the Kings trade down to #3 and get Stutzle and a d prospect ready for 2021. Adds more flexibility for the second round. That’s assuming the Senators highly covet Byfield.

The more I watch Stutzle, the more I see why the Kings staff is enamored with him. Guy skates like a shot out of a cannon and is among the best in dangling. Compares to Kane, imo.
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That’s great too, but Byfield is an oak tree with elite speed who can dangle and shoot.
 
LAKings88 said:
I don’t think Byfield will be in LA next season if drafted.

I think he goes back and plays world juniors.

Can’t put him in the AHL right?
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AHL won't be an immediate option aside from the two week conditioning stint if he were coming off an injury while on the NHL roster. I think Blake or one of the other GMs alluded to how the junior leagues might start next season before the NHL does (shades of the 2012-13 lockout season). It's possible Byfield got an NHL cameo, but I'd imagine he'd be mostly playing in the OHL next year. From a GM perspective, it's probably best to save that ELC year on his age 21 season rather than his age 18 season. Ie, the Devils/Rangers didn't have much of a choice but burning the first year for Hughes/Kakko as 18 year olds looks rough in hindsight.
 
Telos said:
Take Byfield, send him back to the OHL to dominate and build and take your time with him. Roll the dice, if things click we could be talking a Malkin-lite talent.
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I don't think Byfield will become the force Kopitar is in his own zone, but I think he could easily surpass Kopitar in offensive production.
 
Wheeler: 10 thoughts after a crazy 2020 NHL Draft Lottery

2. An embarrassment of riches for the Kings?

Can a hockey team have too much of a good thing? Well, the Kings are probably going to be able to test that theory in practice. They already have the best prospect pool in the NHL. They had the best prospect pool in the NHL before they traded for Tyler Madden, one of the best prospects in college hockey, at this year’s deadline. Now they’re likely to add Quinton Byfield to that mix.

For my purposes, as someone who’s interested in studying what the Kings do next with all of their kids, them picking second overall is the most intriguing outcome. Lafreniere would have fit in nicely within the organization, sliding into the 1LW slot next year and for as long as he was willing to keep re-signing. The Kings losing the three lotteries and falling would have likely prompted them to consider drafting Jamie Drysdale, the draft’s top defenceman, to fill the only real position of need within their pool.

But drafting second overall likely means Byfield and Byfield complicates things. That’s because the strength of the Kings’ stellar prospect pool was already down the middle. Alex Turcotte and Gabe Vilardi had positioned themselves as the natural 1-2 punch to follow Anze Kopitar into the sunset. Madden, Rasmus Kupari, Akil Thomas, and Aidan Dudas gave them a fascinating potential competition for depth roles at center (roles that don’t even suit a player like Madden). They will likely consider Tim Stützle because of that, given that he can play the wing. But they will more than likely add Byfield, who will become their new No. 1 prospect and create a pronounced ripple effect elsewhere in the organization. Not all of those centers were ever going to make it to begin with, but now some of them almost have to be groomed for the wing. There may come a time where they have more value as trade chips than they do within the organization, too. And Turcotte and Vilardi slide down a rung.
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All we have to do is pray that Luc or Blake don't f*** this up.
 
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KINGS17 said:
I don't think Byfield will become the force Kopitar is in his own zone, but I think he could easily surpass Kopitar in offensive production.
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For the sole reason that QB looks to score more it seems. Yes, apparently Byfield scores a lot on the rush, but that's not a bad thing! My main complaint about Kopitar when he has the puck on the rush is that if he doesn't believe he's got a great chance at scoring, he'll peel back and wait and pass it. Sometimes the best option is to just shoot it yourself and have faith in your shot, which by the way is excellent. It's doubtful that Byfield reaches Kopitar level of defending, but if he ends up as good as Carter in his own zone, that would still make him a damn fine 2-way center.
 
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Raccoon Jesus said:
MTL doesn't "deserve" Lafreniere any more than any other team. Is this seriously a thing? What is this, the 1970s?

It's not the LAK boards' fault you have a shitty GM, it's not Montreal's inheritance to claim francophone prospects, and it's not the proper forum to be fine-combing threads looking for something to martyr yourself on. Jeez.
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Yeah, it's not the 1950's and 1960's anymore. To hell with Montreal and their entitled fans.
 
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KINGS17 said:
Yeah, it's not the 1950's and 1960's anymore. To hell with Montreal and their entitled fans.
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I gotta say it, along with Vegas fans (born on 3rd base m'fing degenerates), Canadiens fans are the absolute most trash fans that visit Staples. Acting like a-holes in the oppositions' arena is a clear sign of entitlement and lack of class.
 
31 Thoughts: Fallout from a contentious NHL Draft Lottery - Sportsnet.ca

15. L.A.’s last three first-rounders were centres: Alex Turcotte (2019), Rasmus Kupari (2018) and Gabe Vilardi (2017). I don’t see these prospects like Sam Cosentino does, but his (and others’) consensus next “two” after Lafreniere are OHL Sudbury’s Quinton Byfield and Germany’s Tim Stützle — both centres. Does this matter to the Kings? “No,” Blake answered. “You mention those three, we’ll take four centres like that.”
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Byfield would be a no brainer, guaranteed pick if we were still in the DL era, that era really valued size along with skills.

Maybe he still is the no brainer pick but I get the impression that Stutzle was the guy this FO was targeting because he fits into their plans better. FO has made it obvious they want a fast, skilled, exciting, scoring machine of a team. Stutzle seems like he fits their plans better.

Either way, a trade should happen. Either byfield gets picked and someone gets moved, or they move down and get Stutzle/asset.
 
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