Early 2nd round is where its at for them Ds. Im sure a very interesting D will fall, Price, Allen, Strbak, Gulyalev, Simashev, Lidstein, heck even Dragicevic could all be there in the 2nd.
The trouble with Michkov is he had an injury at the beginning of this draft cycle, he's playing in the VHL, and most concerning is nobody gets to see him play and whether he's progressing like other draft eligibles. There's a lot of risk around him. There were rampant rumours last spring that this Habs brass may be gun shy about drafting Russians with early picks. No idea if there's any truth to that.
Who knows how long the political situation will continue as well.
I hear you.
Yeah the risk appetite should be much higher. I would prefer 50/50 odds on 2 80 pt players then 75/25 odds on 50-60pt players
Bedard in another league can't even compare the two.
Yes I'd say he's better than all 3 of those guys. Who cares if he's smaller, you need to go high ceiling with such a high pick. Plus if we get lucky and one of our picks is top 3 we can add size with fantilli/carlsson
Perf is a much better goalscorer, Cristall is better all over the board.
But someone has to be there, right? And I see a pretty big drop off for forwards after 20-25, while I think, tools wise, the defenders are all very close, in fact, I could name probably 15 Ds that have similar abilities.
Imagine what they would have been saying about Jonathan Toews after his first WJC with Team Canada in his draft year when he only had 2 assists. There are so many strong players who don't make these teams in their draft year.
