GDT: 2024 Blues Draft Day Thread

[Davimir Tarablad]

I just have too many Fabbri nightmares to be fully confident in this pick

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Needs to put on some muscle.

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Trade for his brother too, im all in.

 

[Shwabeal]

Definitely wouldn't classify that as a "Bluesy" pick. Absolutely love the player ignoring the injury. Simultaneously a pretty high floor pick, assuming health, while also being very much boom or bust because of health.

 

[kimzey59]

So a safe D pick?

"Safe" isn't the word I'd use to describe him.

 

[Celtic Note]

Welp…in the scouts we trust I guess

I trust our scouts at forward but we really don’t have much recent history on D.

 

[Blanick]

If you read scouting reports on him one word you will see a lot is smart. He is a very smart hockey player.

 

[LGB]

Put him in the CHL and force feed him. We'll have ourselves a player.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Chicago getting Eiserman is gonna be weird

 

[tfriede2]

I don’t think it’s a safe pick at all. His ceiling is sky high, but he has a lower floor too

So a safe D pick?

 

[ScratchCatFever]

Just don't be Tommy Vannelli 2.0.

 

[Celtic Note]

I trust our scouts at forward but we really don’t have much recent history on D.

That’s what I thought, but ESPN was making it sound like that. Bizarre

 

[Blueston]

I'm more stunned than anything by this pick, even though there was lots of chatter for this last couple days. Jiricek is not a typical Blues 1st round pick in that he has relatively low floor. He is young and raw and missed key development year and was really struggling against men before he got hurt, so this is bigtime risk here that he's Justin Holl or someone similarly unremarkable. I had him ranked 21 because of that risk, because the upside is there. Going into the season he was thought to be likely top 10 pick and may well have been one if he hadn't gotten hurt. So while there is risk, it's not inconceivable that he could be next Petro.

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Bleh. Amazing what 4 spots can do on the caliber of defenseman you can get. No way we couldn’t have beaten those offers

 

[BleedBlue14]

Was not expecting the Blues to pick Jiricek. But I’m hoping that means we arent worried about the injury.

Nonetheless, really like the player. But not the safest pick

 

[Linkens Mastery]

So a safe D pick?

I'd consider him much much more of a Boom-Bust pick. He's probably one of the last ones that have the ceiling of a top pair D. But, he also has a big possibility of being a bust. It will all be based on his injuries.

 

[Majorityof1]

JR just posted Blues to take Jiricek

We've been very leaky in the Steen era. Even JR is getting scoops. I saw lots of people connecting us to Jiricek the past few days. I didn't believe it because we don't leak but there was something there.

 

[Blanick]

I am also going to point out that we really needed some RHD prospects. All of ours are LHD. Wonder if that played a factor in taking Jiricek over Solberg.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Bleh. Amazing what 4 spots can do on the caliber of defenseman you can get. No way we couldn’t have beaten those offers

Whether we could or couldn't beat those offers value wise doesn't matter if the other teams are not willing to drop past the 14th overall pick

 

[sfvega]

Ok gonna put a positive spin. Before he got hurt he was projected to go top10 and maybe even top 5 according to several experts. This could be a major sleeper.

Kinda.....I remember back in October there were a lot of places that had him 10th-14th. Crazy that he had a lost season and barely dropped at all.

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

He's a Blue now... So I'm a fan and will cheer him on. I hope he takes the Dvorsky route over to the CHL this season and gets in some serious games.

 

[WeWentBlues]

Wonder what the cost would have been to move up to 12. Didn't expect Zeev to be available that late.

 

[Blanick]

I'd consider him much much more of a Boom-Bust pick. He's probably one of the last ones that have the ceiling of a top pair D. But, he also has a big possibility of being a bust. It will all be based on his injuries.

You would have to believe the Blues did their due diligence on the medical side of things before making the pick.

 

[Celtic Note]

I am not incredibly excited about the pick, but a safe stay at home with a limited ceiling would not have been good. We need to strike gold on defense in the worst of ways.

 

[Em etah Eh]

Vegas could use Buchnevich right?