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

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Chernyshov, Basha, Stiga, Freij, Elick, Hutson, Artamanov, Ritchie, Badinka, Miettinen, Mews…lots of dudes

Chernyshov and Mews were players Ive liked

 

[hb13xchamps]

I think the new GM wanted to put his stamp on the team.

He’s only the interm GM from what I understand. I think his title is CEO and it’s McDavids former agent. They are going to hire a GM at some point this summer

 

[usiel]

Edmonton trades a future first for pick 32

Smells like 'hey we are doing something in the off season after being the number one loser in the NHL'.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

He’s only the interm GM from what I understand. I think his title is CEO and it’s McDavids former agent. They are going to hire a GM at some point this summer

Ouch they let a intern make that futures trade.

 

[Holtbyisms]

Hope they trade up for Mews. Would instantly be our top D prospect and the only thing we've got in the pipeline that can QB a PP.

 

[Cush]

NHL Draft best players available 2024: Here are top prospects still remaining for Rounds 2-7 | Sporting News

The first round is in the books. Here are the top names still on the board for Day 2 at the 2024 NHL Draft.

www.sportingnews.com

 

[ArmadilloThumb]

On to tomorrow. Let's judge in totality after Day 2.

I will add that the Expected Range analysis that was posted had Parascak averages at 29 and in 20 - 50 for all sources:

Link

 

[usiel]

NHL Draft best players available 2024: Here are top prospects still remaining for Rounds 2-7 | Sporting News

The first round is in the books. Here are the top names still on the board for Day 2 at the 2024 NHL Draft.

www.sportingnews.com

Just give me a Stiga and I'll be happy.

 

[Hivemind]

Round 2 Targets:
1. Artamanov
2. Basha
3. Stiga
4. Howe
5. Mews

(Did not consider any of the Finns, for obvious reasons)

 

[Empty Goal Net]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806858735073251458

Was seemingly hardly paying attention.

He'll fit right in with some of the current roster.

 

[WanderingCapsFan]

LOL! My BFF lives in PG and regularly tries to get me to visit. I'm 90 minutes from Victoria (In WA state) and still have never been. LOL!

Almost 4 hours to make 32 picks. The NHL is ridiculous.

Make the drive. Watch out for the Moose and Grizzlies!

 

[Langway]

I'll drink the kool aid and say Parascak has Kyrou to Panarin type upside IF he puts in the work physically to gain more mass and explosiveness. The offensive skill and sense isn't in question. Honestly...he reminds me of Semin at times in those clips. It's the skating and strength that have to come and at 18 maybe not the worst assumption to bank on that happening. It's boom/bust in the sense that if he remains limited/weak physically what is he? A Sprong type soft minute one-way guy? But maybe it hits and hits big. Shrug.

Toffoli comps seem common but I think he's more dynamic and cerebral, particularly with the man advantage and whenever there's ample time. He won't be afforded the same time and space beyond the WHL but he does have shark-like soft area off-puck instincts so there's a plenty diversified offensive pedigree to work with.

Look for Ondrej Becher, that PG line's center, as a re-entry option tmrw. Maybe rounds 3-4.

 

[Corby78]

Wake up this morning to see we passed on guys like Yakemchuk and Hage for Parascat? A guy who can’t skate? I had him at 28th on my board, not a fan.

 

[twabby]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806875012944810215

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806868624541700554

This is good info, nice find.

I'll take back what I said about this pick being awful. I still think Eiserman was the guy to take, but this is at least...not terrible.

 

[Corby78]

On to tomorrow. Let's judge in totality after Day 2.

I will add that the Expected Range analysis that was posted had Parascak averages at 29 and in 20 - 50 for all sources:

Link

I believe it was sportsnet that had him at 16 a couple months ago. That’s the highest I ever saw him.

 

[Cush]

2024 NHL Draft winners and losers: Scott Wheeler's complete first-round analysis

Here is the comprehensive pick-by-pick breakdown of the first-round selections, which each team in one of four tiers.

www.nytimes.com

Overtime Losers

Washington Capitals
Pick No. 17: Terik Parascak
My ranking: No. 20

Parascak went where a player who posts 105 points in their draft year in the CHL usually does (in many cases, those guys go even higher). And yet, Parascak has some doubters around the league. He’s a slight, skinny kid who played on a line with two top players and didn’t create his offense through a dynamic trait. He’s an incredibly smart player, though, who has good speed — I was surprised when folks described his skating as average or below-average this year, because it looks like a strength to me and he tested well at the on-ice combine at the CHL TPG and the off-ice one in Buffalo — and he always seems to get to good spots to make things happen. I’m a fan and I didn’t mind the pick. Those I spoke with about the pick expected the Capitals to take a defenseman, given the lack of draft capital they’ve spent there over the last several years, but I wonder if Jiricek going to St. Louis changed the calculus.

 

[Langway]

I believe it was sportsnet that had him at 16 a couple months ago. That’s the highest I ever saw him.

Button had him at 13 on his final list with a comp of another WHL guy, Seth Jarvis.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1806904746663440599

 

[Calicaps]

Wake up this morning to see we passed on guys like Yakemchuk and Hage for Parascat? A guy who can’t skate? I had him at 28th on my board, not a fan.

Hage yes. yakemchuk went 7th.

 

[hockeykicker]

 

[kicksavedave]

Guaranteed, they're going way off the board here.

I called it, yep, I did.

 

[Cush]

Warming up to it.... it's just frustrating how predictable they can be.

Hopefully they can trade up by including players (not sure who) rather than picks alone

 

[Ridley Simon]

Wake up this morning to see we passed on guys like Yakemchuk and Hage for Parascat? A guy who can’t skate? I had him at 28th on my board, not a fan.

They didn’t pass on Yakemchuk, but yeah.

I dont hate the player. I hate the player at that pick.

 

[TheSmokingMan]

I have no issues with the pick. Mahoney has a pretty good track record of finding value in the mid-late first rounders and Parascak was clearly one of the guys they were targeting. The Caps have good scouting in the WHL and another prospect on the same team, so they know exactly what they are getting. I want them to take the pick they are confident in and not make a pick just because a player is rated higher on someone else's prospect ranking. Additionally, you have no idea where he fell on other team's draft boards, so trying to take him later may not have been possible.

Outside of the top 10, all of these kids have some blemishes and developmental opportunities in their game, so I'm not too concerned about the strength and skating. Those can be improved with coaching and conditioning. What you can't teach is hockey IQ, and this kid seems to have it in spades. You can tell from his interview that he's intelligent, well spoken, and spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve his game. I also watched his highlights, and he makes a lot of plays in tight with quick passes and shots.

It's going to be a few years before we know if this pick will work out, but I'll certainly be rooting for him.

 

[ynotcaps]

I have no issues with the pick -- as long as he doesn't try to regrow that Wheaton Mall circa 1990 grit-'stache he was rocking through most of his highlight video.

 

[usiel]

I have no issues with the pick -- as long as he doesn't try to regrow that Wheaton Mall circa 1990 grit-'stache he was rocking through most of his highlight video.

I manage few twenty somethings and the whole 70's porn stache thing that seems to be favored can't end soon enough.