GDT: 2024 draft

[Stickpucker]

You can see why I just like to stand back and watch. If there's anything I hate, it's Debbie Downer syndrome. My father does it all the time, and it's grating as all hell.

People on here are amateurs compared to my old man so I barely notice it.

We’re going to be fine, we’re going to find players. We usually strike after everyone else makes their big moves. It’ll be Tuesday or Wednesday before we know how this all went for us.

We gonna get Laine, Provorov, Stamkos, and Kadri.

Say goodbye to Necas and Kokonut.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

I think the Poirier pick was probably just “damn this kid’s still here?”

I think it's important to differentiate the draft and free agency. The draft, from Carolina's perspective, is all about swinging on skill, size as a bonus. Size for your roster can be found via trade and UFA.

 

[chaz4hockey]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807118855199735938

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Another russia D, Roman Shokhrin.

 

[NotOpie]

Another russia D, Roman Shokhrin.

Last paragraph from McKeens:

What is Shokhrin going to look like when he has filled out his frame? If the consistency issues iron out, this is a player with significant upside. There are similarities to Carolina Hurricanes top prospectAlexander Nikishin when he was an MHL player and draft prospect.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Fyodor Avramov's a great pick this late, as well. Shokhrin and Avramov are the size picks.

 

[NotOpie]

Fyodor Avramov's a great pick this late, as well.

That's our token "big forward" pick

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

That's our token "big forward" pick

And it's another guy that the Canes can stash in Europe for eternity.

 

[hurricure]

Remember when drafting a Russian would have given Karmonos Leprosy

 

[HisIceness]

Remember when drafting a Russian would have given Karmonos Leprosy

These are the times (lol) where I wonder if the old regime even would have passed on Svech. I'd like to think they'd know better, but you can't prove it.

 

[hurricure]

These are the times (lol) where I wonder if the old regime even would have passed on Svech. I'd like to think they'd know better, but you can't prove it.

We would be 100% pinning our hopes on an underachieving overpaid Zadina

 

[Justicebork]

We're hedging against a preemptive nuclear strike. Analytics and game theory to the nth degree

 

[Brock Anton]

We would be 100% pinning our hopes on an underachieving overpaid Zadina

Nah, Tkachuk would've 100% been the pick (wouldn't have been bad, tbh). Being North American and bloodlines trumped everything for JR.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Remember when drafting a Russian would have given Karmonos Leprosy

The funny thing is, it still does. And Dundon just doesn’t care.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Washington takes Miro Satan Jr. Yes, it's the usual bloodlines stuff, but it's also intriguing that his son is 6'7".

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Krutov is also a very solid choice in the 7th round. Nice work, Canes brass!

 

[HisIceness]

Who are some undrafted potential gems out there?

 

[LakeLivin]

No. I know. It seems like every time we're in a spot where the easily consensus BPA is a brickhouse, we either go off the board like Nadeau last year or trade down. I'm happy with the Nadeau pick...but this seeming size aversion from a FO that says we need to get bigger and tougher is odd.

Then, I literally could not remember the last time we drafted a forward larger than 6'1" who was also 210#+. Hence the question.

I know it's been a long time, and I'm sure there must have been some since, but I wonder if expending the #21oa on Julien Gautier back in 2016 has served as somewhat of a cautionary tale when it comes to valuing size over skill?

 

[MyLuckyPuck]

Button beating us up yesterday on "The Powerplay", over being smurfish. Said we were to busy singing players that are too small and that we didn't understand the formula that wins Stanley Cups.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

23 Russians selected since 2018

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

So Buffalo officially is buying out Skinner (sorry if posted already, haven't had time to read all the threads. I'd like to see him go to a playoff team that has enough depth to shelter him effectively.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Who are some undrafted potential gems out there?

Chad LaRose

 

[DaveG]

I think the Poirier pick was probably just “damn this kid’s still here?”

Yep. If anything we went size heavy this year added some physicality to the system that we have been missing.

 

[Stickpucker]

So Buffalo officially is buying out Skinner (sorry if posted already, haven't had time to read all the threads. I'd like to see him go to a playoff team that has enough depth to shelter him effectively.

I read this as you want Skinner back.

Bad.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I read this as you want Skinner back.

Bad.

I’d like to see him go back somewhere that really used to appreciate him the way that Buffalo never could.