GDT: 2022 Upper Deck NHL Draft: Bell Centre, Montreal, QC | ROUND ONE July 7th @ 7 pm ET | ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS: PART 2

[BeliveauFan4ever]

F Detroit. Hockeytown…unless winning they crammed in crowds of 8,000.

F Detroit.

 

[sampollock]

Runner??????

 

[HostileCapSpace]

a 3rd line center and joel armia 2.0 while losing Romanov. The only yound d-man we had nhl ready.

Abomination of draft.

It's awful. Ds take longer to develop. Our only proven young NHL D gone for a "projet", basically Chicago's KK.

And people were laughing at MB for his size fetish.

 

[MadMslm]

Such a surprising move

Didn’t expect Hughes and Gorton to do something like this. Shame on me for expecting a normal draft.

I wonder if they are done or if they try for PLD or a higher draft pick if a player on their board is still available

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Dach was a buy-low. Romanov isn't that good or valuable. It was laughable to consider him a core player. I like him and would've liked to keep him but yknow, he's not irreplaceable.

Kirby Dach can do more. With MSL + less likelihood to get benched for making a mistaken, maybe he will.

I like Romanov but he's been among the most overrated players we have in the last decade. It's insane how people still try to argue he's a top pairing defensemen in the making when he's shown absolutely nothing to accredit that. I think what he is right now is essentially where he stays. A decent #4-5 with maybe some #3 upside.

Now we don't know if Dach is just fools gold but he hasn't significantly higher upside than Romanov.

 

[LaP]

LOL at the reactions...how about we see these players play with us before torching the team LMAO

It's like we just traded Victore Hedman. I like Romanov but Emelin was as good as him at the same age. He's not a future Bobby Orr.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Kasper???

Not surprised. Bullish Swedish center.

 

[ReHabs]

I'm not sold on Slafkovsky for reasons often cited but obviously we will root for him to succeed. Dach though, I dunno it could be a buy-low big time win but there are so many downsides to both the Slaf and Dach moves.

Some cowboy moves from HuGo...

 

[Mrb1p]

Hugo channeling 10 years or bad Bergevin moves in not even one hour

 

[Colezuki]

I feel like the only one whose good with this

 

[salbutera]

I'm not sold on Slafkovsky for reasons often cited but obviously we will root for him to succeed. Dach though, I dunno it could be a buy-low big time win but there are so many downsides to both the Slaf and Dach moves.

Some cowboy moves from HuGo...

 

[sampollock]

Watched Dach in Saskatoon.

Nice hands

 

[SOLR]

Agreed, I think people are overreacting our u23 core now includes
Dach, slaf, caufield, Suzuki, and Barron, Guhle,

Mailloux, Harris, Farrell, Roy, Kidney etc. etc. and more coming.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Dach was a buy-low. Romanov isn't that good or valuable. It was laughable to consider him a core player. I like him and would've liked to keep him but yknow, he's not irreplaceable.

Kirby Dach can do more. With MSL + less likelihood to get benched for making a mistaken, maybe he will.

With Harris, Barron, Guhle, Norlinder, Xhekaj & Leskinen, they probably felt like Romanov was worth giving up. Hughes said they didn't really want to trade him, but you have to give to get.

 

[Mrb1p]

I'm not sold on Slafkovsky for reasons often cited but obviously we will root for him to succeed. Dach though, I dunno it could be a buy-low big time win but there are so many downsides to both the Slaf and Dach moves.

Some cowboy moves from HuGo...

Its not a buy low though, they just traded a 13 OA/a 22 yo top 4 D that plays a unique game for him.

 

[Mandala]

Makes me regret Bergevin (can't believe I write that)

 

[Redux91]

Great pick Detroit, damn it Steve

 

[MarkovsKnee]

what the hell is our d going to be this year? subban coming back for league min??

I imagine they think Guhle can make the team.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

What a horrible day for us... The honeymoon is over, it was too good to be true.

Imagine giving a #13 pick+ for Dach...

 

[habsfan891]

How the f*** is trading Romanov opening up cap space ffs.

 

[expy]

Don't think Hughes is done yet

 

[VirginiaMtlExpat]

Shoulda held onto 13 to see if Nazar is still there

Maybe Dach is gone by then though.

 

[zx81]

Dach is our 'Zibanejad' trade for Gorton.

Not comparable at all.
Zib was scoring 20 goals/50pts per season in Ottawa before getting traded.

 

[Mrb1p]

I imagine they think Guhle can make the team.

Why not trade him then? Romanov is established.

 

[RationalExpectations]

I feel like people are overreacting, there was stats that big players take 400 games to hit. This could be the case with dach and we don’t need him to be a 1 just a 2

Dach was already a reach at 3 OA. Now the Habs have spent 13th OA early 3rd and 4th to get him while his stock was lower. That is borderline moronic