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Prospect Info: [2022 - 1st] Juraj Slafkovsky

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Takeru said:
Well, that's one line possibly solved.
Hopefully Dach turns into more than a late career Eller or we draft top5 again next year.
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Getting a young Lars Eller for Romanov would not be terrible. Not great but not terrible. People underrate how useful Eller was for a team looking to win.

On topic I like Salf. Not sure if he'll live up to his draft rank though. But i would be surprised if he doesn't become a 25/50 big winger which at least is always useful to have.

Next year's draft is where the bread and butter will be. As long as we get players who can be useful to help Suzuki and Caufield i'm fine with it. This is not a great draft.
 
Garo said:
If we don't draft top 5 next year something has gone horribly wrong
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I don't know.

AZ, SEA and CHI are locks as bottom feeders.

Then you can probably add at least two of PHI/OTT/DET/BUFF/SJS at the bottom.

Then a couple injury unlucky team(s).

Then a team outside top5 jumping up from draft lottery.

A top 5 is far from a given next season. I'll be happy if we get one but certainly wouldn't bank on it.
 
Impossible to know how this turns out. I thought they should have taken Wright, Cooley or Nemec just because of position being so important and there not being a big difference in evaluations but I'm not being paid to make the decisions.

Also not fair to judge Hughes and Gorton right away, by all accounts they spent a lot of time making this decision and it's their first pick for the club. Should all just take a breath, and look at the positives about Slafkovsky.

Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Caufield

That has some serious potential.
 
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Can he play in the AHL next year or does he have to go back in Europe? I would love to see him play in the AHL.
 
LaP said:
Getting a young Lars Eller for Romanov would not be terrible. Not great but not terrible. People underrate how useful Eller was for a team looking to win.

On topic I like Salf. Not sure if he'll live up to his draft rank though. But i would be surprised if he doesn't become a 25/50 big winger which at least is always useful to have.

Next year's draft is where the bread and butter will be. As long as we get players who can be useful to help Suzuki and Caufield i'm fine with it. This is not a great draft.
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Yeah, I can see the gamble taken on the Romanov - Dach swap, but it can turn out pretty underwhelming.
Alson have to factor in the guys we could've taken @13th OA.

All in all, I would've been happier with Slaf had we drafted 3rd-5th OA, so I agree with your sentiment.
A tad underwhelming at 1OA, but maybe mgmt were really onto something or it's really an altogether poor draft year.

All eyes on next year indeed, hopefully this one pans out more than the previous few (which were always reputed to be better than the last, until we got to it).
 
Kojo said:
Can he play in the AHL next year or does he have to go back in Europe? I would love to see him play in the AHL.
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he can play in Laval, not sure that's a good idea though, not a big fan of 18 year olds in the AHL.
 
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Habsawce said:
Impossible to know how this turns out. I thought they should have taken Wright, Cooley or Nemec just because of position being so important and there not being a big difference in evaluations but I'm not being paid to make the decisions.

Also not fair to judge Hughes and Gorton right away, by all accounts they spent a lot of time making this decision and it's their first pick for the club. Should all just take a breath, and look at the positives about Slafkovsky.

Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Caufield

That has some serious potential.
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For sure, will take a while to know for sure how it pans out.

Can say I was quite floored when they called the pick, hopefully they actually know more than we do cause "size and two good tourneys" are a hard sell for me. Combined with our poor history of top 3 picks, can't really blame people from being underwhelmed.

But I won't sharpen my axe just yet. Will take at least 2-3 years before the real winners emerge from this draft
 
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