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GDT: 2024 NHL Draft (June 28 - June 29, Las Vegas Sphere)

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1+2 for Yakemchuk last night. Up to 13 points in his last 7 games, now leading the Hitmen in scoring.
 
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Craig’s List: Celebrini, Eiserman top rankings ahead of World Juniors | TSN

TSN’s Director of Scouting Craig Button has Macklin Celebrini and Cole Eiserman remaining at No. 1 and No. 2 on his list, and he expects both players to star at the world juniors next month.
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More in the 15-20 mid-range I like the WHL wingers Iginla/Parascak/Ritchie, Greentree, Buium and MBN. Connelly/Chernyshov could slide. Overall it's a range for adding another winger I'd wager.

Still hard to gauge this Caps team given how weak their top six is. Realistically it's hard to imagine an in-season trade where they'd move their first. If they could dump Kuznetsov and add someone like Hertl...maybe? Even then they'd have to be playing very well to be that eager.
 


Mike Greenish. Even on a stacked team I'm not sure gets into the top ten...but around the mid-first I'd bite.
 
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It's an okay list, with few odd decisions.

Jiricek misses the season but stays at 9 and Kiviharju drops to 21 because of his injury? Odd. That said i think both will fall to ~20-30 range.
 
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All-American Game to showcase top U.S. prospects for 2024 NHL Draft | NHL.com

NTDP forward Eiserman, Tri-City left wing Connolly among 45 players who will skate in event
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Tomorrow at 4pm on NHLN. Trevor Connelly was ranked ahead of Eiserman (ranked 8th) in Central Scouting's recent mid-term rankings.
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How did he jump to BU at age 17? I have my thoughts on how he did it and thats cool

," NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr said. "Celebrini’s an NHL All-Star in the making having displayed his NHL skills and attributes on the world stage, as a 17-year-old with Canada's World Junior Championship team and while leading Boston University and Hockey East in scoring.

That list has him as the top dawg this draft
 
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2024 NHL Draft Rankings: Midseason top 50

Celebrini has only strengthened his case to go No. 1, but the rest of the top 10 is wide open.
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I think the wide open part is pretty accurate. Make it a bit more entertaining trying to figure out where players will go. These type of drafts are a bit more fun don the road when a re-draft order happens to see what teams picked well.
 
I think there's a bit of separation in that the top 13 or thereabouts has separated from the pack. (I'd tend to put Yakemchuk ahead of Iginla and that's the group that aligns with Ellis here.)

Iginla or Connelly would be decent consolation prizes more in the mid-range but mostly they definitely should try to target upside from the back-end between Parekh, Buium and Yakemchuk. It's probably the easiest ticket toward more dynamic, heady play overall going forward. They may require some patience re: their overall game and physical strength but their skill level, confidence and desire to create is something they really need in the system.
 
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I think there's a bit of separation in that the top 13 or thereabouts has separated from the pack. (I'd tend to put Yakemchuk ahead of Iginla and that's the group that aligns with Ellis here.)

Iginla or Connelly would be decent consolation prizes more in the mid-range but mostly they definitely should try to target upside from the back-end between Parekh, Buium and Yakemchuk. It's probably the easiest ticket toward more dynamic, heady play overall going forward. They may require some patience re: their overall game and physical strength but their skill level, confidence and desire to create is something they really need in the system.
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I had no idea until now Jarome Iginla kid was a top draft prospect. Im going to have to watch him im interested in his game now.

I hate being a nepo supporter but alot of these kids at have been around pro sports their entire life turn out to be pretty good.

I know the caps tried it once with gus and crashed and burned into one of the worst picks of the GMGM era. But so many of these turn into good pros
 
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usiel said:
I think the wide open part is pretty accurate. Make it a bit more entertaining trying to figure out where players will go. These type of drafts are a bit more fun don the road when a re-draft order happens to see what teams picked well.
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It's fun until you realize the Caps picked Eric Fehr over Ryan Getzlaf.

:banghead::banghead::banghead:
 
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It's fun until you realize the Caps picked Eric Fehr over Ryan Getzlaf.

:banghead::banghead::banghead:
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Hindsight is always 20/20. After being drafted Fehr preceded to have back to back 50 goal seasons in the WHL. Future was bright back then.
 
Feeling pretty confident given this team's level to date that they should end up in position to add someone from Bobby Margarita's top 10 + Yakemchuk/Buium. I don't think that necessarily kickstarts any rebuild on its own, though. Only Celebrini does that in this draft. That's still going to have to come via further significant trades and more of a prolonged restructuring.

The CHL Top Prospects game goes tonight at 630 on NHLN. Good chance to check out Dickinson, Parekh, Catton, Yakemchuk, Iginla and Greentree. (Lindstrom is out with an injury I believe.)
 
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Feeling pretty confident given this team's level to date that they should end up in position to add someone from Bobby Margarita's top 10 + Yakemchuk/Buium. I don't think that necessarily kickstarts any rebuild on its own, though. Only Celebrini does that in this draft. That's still going to have to come via further significant trades and more of a prolonged restructuring.

The CHL Top Prospects game goes tonight at 630 on NHLN. Good chance to check out Dickinson, Parekh, Catton, Yakemchuk, Iginla and Greentree. (Lindstrom is out with an injury I believe.)
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Dickenson and Yakemchuk are standing out to me so far.
 
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