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That makes more sense than flexing Beniers out to a wing. But I’m in the group consensus that several D, especially Buium, were higher on their board.
GDT: 2024 NHL Draft Round 1-7 (Jun 28-29)
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It happens every year that someone falls and sometimes teams will say privately that that guy was their second choice when they picked. He really might have been Anaheim's second choice at #3. Every team's list is different.
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Jett Luchenko at #13
I had him right around there, 11-13.
Crazy fast center that can make plays at speed and forechecks like a beast.
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I didn't really look at anything past the top 10 players or the once consistantly mentioned for it.
Man, if we would only have more than one first round pick at some point in time....would make the first round way more intersting
My mind and body were ready for Zeev at #8, but Catton ain't a bad pick at all in my mind.
And then, unbelievably, Buium was there for Philly's pick too...and they traded it away.
I may just be done with that f***ing team until Clarke and all the other "BSBs" are fired into the god damn sun. Staggering f***ing idiots.
And then, unbelievably, Buium was there for Philly's pick too...and they traded it away.
I may just be done with that f***ing team until Clarke and all the other "BSBs" are fired into the god damn sun. Staggering f***ing idiots.
The Flyers have drafted sub 6'0 forwards in the first round in each of the last two years. There's no reason to think that the old boys are still doing the drafting. They've had a lot of small skill guys like Frost, Konecny, etc... going back a ways it was Claude Giroux who is another guy below six footer. Small D like York too.
The idea that the Flyers are strongly skewed towards big bruisers is very, very out of date.
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Ducks move up to take Solberg. Great, great move by the Ducks. And now we have two Norwegians taken in the first round for the first time in history.
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It's not that they're still obsessed with BIG GOOD, it's that their tendency has been to aim squarely at high effort / lower skill players that "play the game right" and never swing for the fence. Giroux was drafted in 2006, when they still made good choices occasionally. We already have Scott Laughton and they failed to trade him when they could've gotten a decent return. And now they've drafted another one of those.
Poor trade ideas that result in a buyout every other year. Never commit to a rebuild. The FO is full of old thinking and that certainly includes Torts (who barely plays Frost, btw.)
Add horrible luck on top of that (Nolan Patrick, Ryan Ellis) and it's small wonder they haven't done squat since 2010.
Solberg is a guy you don't want in your division. Some Kraken players are going to get hurt.
I think the emphasis on competitiveness is smart, those are guys that often find a way to improve. I like the Luchanko pick a lot more than our Eduard Sale pick, who looks like he's not interested in hockey.
And Luchanko is not just a hard worker. He's crazy fast and can make highlight reel passes at full speed. You're going to love him.
Man, I sure hope so. Nothing against Luchanko really, it just felt like the more obvious game changer was right there for the taking. So many years of being mediocre have sapped Hf flyers of positivity.
