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Prospect Info: [2024 - 21st] Michael Hage, Chicago Steel (USHL), Committed to U of Michigan

GrandmaCookie

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It has probably been asked before on this thread but not going to read 44 pages, so, what is Hage NHL projection?

I read Sam Bennett?
 

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WeThreeKings said:
Having Hutson, Demidov, Hage, Dach and Suzuki as players who can f***ing carry a puck in the zone and make a play.. what a future dynamic.
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Add possibly a 1C in this years draft and a forward with size and grit with CGY's pick if were lucky right out of the top 10 would be amazing. Then Hughes has to acquire a 2nd and 3rd pair RD when Gallagher and Andersons contracts are out and were good to go if Fowler becomes our 1st G

The top 6 will be stacked and decisions will be made in 2 years

GrandmaCookie said:
It has probably been asked before on this thread but not going to read 44 pages, so, what is Hage NHL projection?

I read Sam Bennett?
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a whole lot more talented than Bennett. Bennett is a unique 3rd line grinder that every team needs in playoffs, Hage could be a PPG center with his speed and shot and iq
 
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McGuires Corndog said:
New Jersey did great picking Adam Larson, the big RH defenseman, over Nikita Kucherov.

They’d do it again tomorrow!
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That such a bad comparison.... Kucherov has drafted in the second round vs Adam Larsson(#4) in the top 5....

Tampa bay also drafted in the first round pick in 2011 Vladislav(#27) before Kucherov......

2011 NHL Entry Draft Picks at hockeydb.com

A sortable list of players drafted in the 2011 NHL Entry draft, including their career scoring after being drafted
www.hockeydb.com
 
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tazsub3 said:
Exactly . In previous years we would have gotten the comments that such player was gone when we drafting .
While we draft Duds with such and later picks
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I believe MB only traded down or exchanged 7th round picks. He got lucky with Caufield. Of course while Hughes has targeted the right players he also has been lucky that Demidov, Hage and Hutson went lower than they should have.
 
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Boss Man Hughes said:
I believe MB only traded down or exchanged 7th round picks.
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He traded down a couple of times which rarely makes sense to me. I think one time he gave a end of 2nd round pick for a beginning of 3rd round pick and a 4th round pick and the narrative was that the player we wanted at the end of the 2nd round would still be available at the beginning of the 3rd round and i was like yeeeaahhh riiiighttt but what if he's not available can you travel to the future to be sure? For me a 4th was not worth the gamble. 4th round picks very rarely becomes NHLers and the value in a trade at the deadline is minimal.

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Of course while Hughes has targeted the right players he also has been lucky that Demidov, Hage and Hutson went lower than they should have.
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You could make a case that every good picks but the top 5 maybe went lower than they should have. Can be said or Patrice Bergerton, David Pasternak, David Krejci, Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat, Point, Hintz, Robertson, almost every goddamn picks by Carolina. Almost always happen to the same good people. A bit of chance yeah but still got to draft the right guy. When every teams pass on the guy it's a fallacy to believe it was an obvious pick.
 
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Estimated_Prophet said:
It absolutely is luck when you don't know how other team's have players ranked and your staff believes that Hage was a mid teen pick and are being correctly justified as such so far.

I will try and find the clip but I think Hughes may have even used the word "lucky" when talking about Hage falling to to them. By your statement we also were not lucky to have Demidov fall to us or Caufield fall to us.

I know what you are saying and I agree with much of it but from the Canadiens perspective they admittedly tried to do more to move up to specifically get Hage as they would need less luck to draft him......they failed to do so and were ecstatic and surprised to still see him there. From their evaluation of him they felt other teams would see the same things and rank him considerably higher as they did. So.....objectively, they needed to be lucky to be able to draft him based on their evaluation of him.
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Nah…I don’t see it as luck, teams make decisions and pick players because they think they are BPA, it’s not like Caufield was in hiding or Hage and their names were buried under a pile for nobody to see and as the Habs were ready to pick, they magically became available.

But I get what you’re saying lol

I see it more as fortunate :naughty:
 

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LaP said:
He traded down a couple of times which rarely makes sense to me. I think one time he gave a end of 2nd round pick for a beginning of 3rd round pick and a 4th round pick and the narrative was that the player we wanted at the end of the 2nd round would still be available at the beginning of the 3rd round and i was like yeeeaahhh riiiighttt but what if he's not available can you travel to the future to be sure? For me a 4th was not worth the gamble. 4th round picks very rarely becomes NHLers and the value in a trade at the deadline is minimal.



You could make a case that every good picks but the top 5 maybe went lower than they should have. Can be said or Patrice Bergerton, David Pasternak, David Krejci, Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat, Point, Hintz, Robertson, almost every goddamn picks by Carolina. Almost always happen to the same good people. A bit of chance yeah but still got to draft the right guy. When every teams pass on the guy it's a fallacy to believe it was an obvious pick.
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Exactly. It's good player evaluation and in Hage's case moving up as much as possible to get him. And in the first round some (maybe a lot of the players teams favor) that are known. Anaheim was expected to take Sennecke. HuGo may have known the odds were good Hage would be there at 21.
 
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CristianoRonaldo said:
Get ready for atleast 10 years of that... We are not ready. Hopefully, Demidov will be as good if not better. :popcorn:
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https://x.com/i/web/status/1852515791779807625
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Christ almighty. He’s probably our most exciting forward pick outside of Demidov in years. Slaf was pretty question mark-y and it was hard to get a read on him. Still is a bit.

But you can see pretty clear with Hage he’s pretty effing dynamic with next to no question marks. Bulk up for sure but that’s easy. Everything else is there. Christ for a late 1st rounder…man
 
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