GDT: 2023 Caps NHL Draft Thread

[ClevelandCapsfan]

Buckeye fans get over it.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Tons of credit to a kid with a stutter for seeming so comfortable talking, especially in a non-native language.

Does he? I thought it was just struggling with the English, but not bad at all….good for him.


what a gift for Columbus….

 

[pman25]

Ok Sharks, take Michkov. I dare u

 

[usiel]

Kinda cool that Fantilli is in the metro.

 

[MileHighCapsFan]

Big pickup for Columbus. Would've given up the farm for him.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

I guess the sooner Michkov is off the board the sooner we can get over being pissed

 

[Acallabeth]

Michkov better one up that shiny vest

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

 

[usiel]

The unexpected Caps pick at #8 I would be secretly happy about is Perreault.

 

[RedRocking]

Fresh Prince of Palo Alto? Let’s do it Sharks!

 

[Random schmoe]

Does he? I thought it was just struggling with the English, but not bad at all….good for him.


what a gift for Columbus….

Yeah, the stutter is a known thing. (I read a feature by Wheeler last month where he talked about it.)

Found it...

Leo Carlsson stutters. People notice. Sometimes they’ll pull him aside to quietly ask him about it. Sometimes he’ll tell them before they have a chance.

It acts up the most when he’s nervous, in front of cameras and microphones, or talking in his second language.
...

He has learned to embrace it all.

“I’m proud of myself,” he told The Athletic. “I think I’ve had it my whole life so I’m kind of used to it. It’s part of me. I can’t change it.”

Meet Leo Carlsson, No. 2 draft pick by the Ducks, whose stutter is just a ‘part of me’

NHL veteran Bryan Rust said he's learned to accept stuttering "as part of myself" and said he believes Leo Carlsson will be stronger for it.

theathletic.com

 

[marcel snapshot]

Tell me again why we don’t like Dvorsky

 

[MileHighCapsFan]

Tell me again why we don’t like Dvorsky

Doesn't have a high level comp. Big fan of AIK so wouldn't complain.

 

[Brian23]

Alright, 4 down. Here comes the big one.

 

[John Price]

Rustles me the Caps didn't have a public watch party for this

 

[Devil Dancer]

The dream is alive.

 

[SecretaryofDefense5]

Tell me again why we don’t like Dvorsky

Low ceiling. He may end up a third line center. Not a fan of taking possible middle six players at eight.

 

[usiel]

Tell me again why we don’t like Dvorsky

It is the perceived maybe not as high upside. Seems like he has a decent floor.

 

[ynotcaps]

Sweet jeebus do I hate the use of the non-word "comfortability"

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

I dare you Habs….

 

[John Price]

lol this is so awkward

 

[Kalopsia]

Did she really just ask him to sing the Fresh Prince theme? God, the pain in his eyes as he tried to figure out if it's more awkward to refuse or to do it on line TV...

 

[max21]

Did he just sing that

 

[RedRocking]

Why does Emily Kaplan make everything akward?

 

[WcRoenick97]

That's a sound clip he will regret in the future.