Draft 2022 NHL Draft and Undrafted Free Agents Thread

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If you have the time, here is a pretty good watch about Sean Durzi’s journey from aaa to the NHL.

Leafs gave up on him for Jake Muzzin and that worked out more for the Kings than Leafs. Rangers need to make some sneaky trades like when they traded for Ryan Lindgren. Need that type of forward acquisition up front at center
 
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Brad Allen from the Blackbook talks about Slafvosky, Wright and Cooley.
@EdJovanovski , I think you’re going to like this. Allen talks up Kravtsov game when talking about Slafvosky game, comparing his to aspects to parts of both Kravtsov and Kaapo Kakko.
 
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9 Days till the Draft. Hoping GM Chris Drury can find a way back into the 1st. He's some tools to make it happen but I have doubts doubting that is the route the Rangers are going to take.
 
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McKenzie's draft rankings should be dropping soon. Vince just also mentioned that WPG opted for taking the 2nd rounder this year. I'll try to come back later with who I'd be targeting with our pick

 
McKenzie's draft rankings should be dropping soon. Vince just also mentioned that WPG opted for taking the 2nd rounder this year. I'll try to come back later with who I'd be targeting with our pick


McKenzie has Juraj Slafkovsky as number one on his list according to Frank Seravalli.
 
McKenzie has Juraj Slafkovsky as number one on his list according to Frank Seravalli.
and now there are some tweets circulating around the league that montreal may be leaning that way as well. if that happens it will throw the draft in a weird way bc you would think that nj would start to get some crazy offers for the wright pick. just cant see them taking wright with the centers they already have but who knows.
 
and now there are some tweets circulating around the league that montreal may be leaning that way as well. if that happens it will throw the draft in a weird way bc you would think that nj would start to get some crazy offers for the wright pick. just cant see them taking wright with the centers they already have but who knows.
Gorton hired Nikolai Bobrov, so I’m guessing he was the man behind the Kravtsov pick and he could be the man pushing Kent Hughes to not take Wright 1OA.
 
I'm a little surprised WPG went with our pick this year. Next year's draft is supposed to be deeper and quite frankly i don't see us making it as far in the playoffs as we did this year
 
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I'm a little surprised WPG went with our pick this year. Next year's draft is supposed to be deeper and quite frankly i don't see us making it as far in the playoffs as we did this year
they took number 55 which belonged to St. Louis/NYR after the Buch trade rather than #63.
 
and now there are some tweets circulating around the league that montreal may be leaning that way as well. if that happens it will throw the draft in a weird way bc you would think that nj would start to get some crazy offers for the wright pick. just cant see them taking wright with the centers they already have but who knows.

McKenzie's list is solely based on what NHL scouts are telling him, so if Juraj Slafkovský is listed no 1 on his list, there's a pretty good chance Montréal goes with that pick.
 
I'm a little surprised WPG went with our pick this year. Next year's draft is supposed to be deeper and quite frankly i don't see us making it as far in the playoffs as we did this year
I could be wrong, but I thought only the 1st round changes order based on playoff performance (Conf finals means picks 29-32). So it wouldn't affect the 2nd round.

edit - Nevermind I'm wrong.
 
and now there are some tweets circulating around the league that montreal may be leaning that way as well. if that happens it will throw the draft in a weird way bc you would think that nj would start to get some crazy offers for the wright pick. just cant see them taking wright with the centers they already have but who knows.

Something around #2 for Debrincat wouldn’t shock me at all.
 
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still recall listening to game on radio while in HS, evidently (per hockey-reference) during '72-73
NYR vs Flyers, with Villemure in NYR net, and Michel Belhumeur for Flyers

Remember when we had Lindberg, Stålberg, Staal and Stoll on the same team? Sam's worst nightmare.

PS: This draft teams can draft Jack Hughes and Elias Pettersson.
 
McGroarty at 27 & Belluz at 29... would love to jump in there. Goyette ranked at 45. Kyrou and Lucius brothers both ranked in the 3rd round. Moldenhauer left as an honorable mention, would be a phenomenal pick if he somehow slips to the 4th round
 
McGroarty at 27 & Belluz at 29... would love to jump in there. Goyette ranked at 45. Kyrou and Lucius brothers both ranked in the 3rd round. Moldenhauer left as an honorable mention, would be a phenomenal pick if he somehow slips to the 4th round
Jack Hughes also is further back then I would have thought on some of the touts list’s.
 
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My two main targets that are probably out of range are Ostlund and McConnell-Barker. The two that should be in range that I’ve liked a lot this year are Aleksanteri Kaskimäki and Ryan Greene. Kaskimäki caught my eye from his play at the Hlinka and WJCs where his skating just stood out as world’s better than the rest of his peers. I think he’s similar to the Foudy brothers where their skating will make them pro, and the rest of their development will depend on their puck skills and brain catching up to their feet. Kaskimäki seems to have a safe floor but also some good boom potential.

Greene is similar, and the Rangers will be familiar with him from watching Brody Lamb. He probably will go after his teammate Cam Lund, but they’re both in a similar mold of speedy, two-way centers. I think Greene has the higher hockey IQ and will translate better through college and pro hockey, but Lund is good too.
 

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