2024 NHL Draft Thread | No Picks, No Problems
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Need our prospect bros to hype me up on some 3rd and 4th round long shots.
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Guys I like in the 3rd/4th round:
C Tomas Mrsic Medicine Hat Tigers - 62 points in 63 games. Local kid who possesses a lot of skill and a very good skater. Needs to add strength but has a great toolkit.
C Kieron Walton Sudbury Wolves - 43 points in 65 games. 6'6 centre who skates extremely well for his size and produced well despite being buried behind one of the deepest teams in the CHL and getting very little PP time.
C Tomas Mrsic Medicine Hat Tigers - 62 points in 63 games. Local kid who possesses a lot of skill and a very good skater. Needs to add strength but has a great toolkit.
C Kieron Walton Sudbury Wolves - 43 points in 65 games. 6'6 centre who skates extremely well for his size and produced well despite being buried behind one of the deepest teams in the CHL and getting very little PP time.
it's drafts like this we really miss jim 'we think we can get an nhl player at every pick' benning
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From an NCAA perspective
Colin Ralph is one of those high upside picks you make like Scott morrow was in his draft year
Coming from SSM with no major junior experience right to the NCAA
Will Skahan, maybe could be around. Grew up around hockey in the ducks dressing room as his dad is the strength and conditioning coach for Anaheim for a long time. Is a an extremely physical dman who agitates from the UNTDP
Adam Kleber could be around in the 3rd round as well. Coming into the NCHC and Duluth.
D-man with size and skating coming from the USHL with size and was nominated for best defensive defenseman.
Colin Ralph is one of those high upside picks you make like Scott morrow was in his draft year
Coming from SSM with no major junior experience right to the NCAA
Will Skahan, maybe could be around. Grew up around hockey in the ducks dressing room as his dad is the strength and conditioning coach for Anaheim for a long time. Is a an extremely physical dman who agitates from the UNTDP
Adam Kleber could be around in the 3rd round as well. Coming into the NCHC and Duluth.
D-man with size and skating coming from the USHL with size and was nominated for best defensive defenseman.
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This is my WHL top 15:
1) Cayden Lindstrom
2) Berkly Catton
3) Carter Yakemchuk
4) Tij Iginla
5) Terik Parascak
6) Andrew Basha
7) Charlie Elick
8) Julius Miettinen
9) Tarin Smith
10) Carson Wetsch
11) Tanner Howe
12) Ryder Ritchie
13) Miguel Marques
14) Will McIsaac
15) Adam Jecho
Would love if Smith or Wetsch fell to the 3rd round but I wouldn't be holding my breath.
Will McIsaac is a big under-the-radar RHD who I have higher than any other rating I've seen.
1) Cayden Lindstrom
2) Berkly Catton
3) Carter Yakemchuk
4) Tij Iginla
5) Terik Parascak
6) Andrew Basha
7) Charlie Elick
8) Julius Miettinen
9) Tarin Smith
10) Carson Wetsch
11) Tanner Howe
12) Ryder Ritchie
13) Miguel Marques
14) Will McIsaac
15) Adam Jecho
Would love if Smith or Wetsch fell to the 3rd round but I wouldn't be holding my breath.
Will McIsaac is a big under-the-radar RHD who I have higher than any other rating I've seen.
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I'd also wonder about going a bit different direction with our 3rd rounder and Ondrej Becher, who is a double OA who destroyed the WHL down the stretch this year (42 points in his last 20 games) and is a 6'1 natural C with a pretty well-developed two-way game. Also put up 10 points in 7 games at the WJC.s. I'd wonder if you could stick him straight into a 2nd or 3rd line C role in Abbotsford and get a much more 'immediate' prospect with that pick than you'd normally expect.
He's 6'1 185 in the listings I see?
If we'd taken this player in the 3rd round in 2022 and he'd just finished 4th in WJC scoring in/around a whole bunch of 1st round picks (including tied with Lekkerimaki) we'd be losing our shit about him as a prospect. Perspective on OA guys is weird.
More than his production, he's a natural C who is good defensively, PK guy for both PG and Czech at the WJC and you always want to be adding two-way Cs to the prospect pool.
He's listed at 6'1 172 in the 2022 CSS rankings and 6'1 184 in the 2024 CSS rankings so I have my doubts that that 172 lbs weight is accurate unless he's gained zero weight between age 18 and 20. And if the weight is old the height probably is too?
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It can be an advantage having less picks because it focuses the organisation to make sure the picks really matter (or so I remember hearing some years back)...
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Outside of the first round
Ryder Ritchie - was hoping he would fall to early 2nd but played good at u18s Late 1st maybe?
EJ Emery - early 2nd
Lucas Pettersson - Early to mid 2nd
Cole Beaudoin - Mid 2nd
Karl Bednarik - mid 2nd
John Mustard - mid 2nd
Tarin Smith - late 2nd/ early 3rd
Colton Roberts - late 2nd / early 3rd
Jacob Battaglia 3/4
Jack Bodin - 4-7th
Hagens Burrows - 4/5
Ilya Protas 5/6
Joonas Paqvalin 6/7
Lucas Ellians 4-7
I do like some first rounders but this definitely one of the smallest lists I have ever made. Mostly because Van doesn't currently have many picks and they need in the future these types of players.
I bought the EP draft guide yesterday and am combing through it. Modified my linked spreadsheet to emphasize their rankings.
I'd probably sign up for Recrutes hockey guide before EP. If you can take away the Grant bias he does a much better job of projecting NHL players. Feel like a lot of the reports from EP are people watching junior players and not future NHLers.
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I like the sounds of Kleber and Mateiko:
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5. Adam Kleber, RHD, 6’5 (Lincoln, USHL)
Kleber is University of Minnesota-Duluth commit, and his 6-foot-5, 209-pound frame makes it hard to miss him out there. He doesn’t put a ton of points on the board, but he will punish you with his strength and work ethic. Kleber had an excellent second half to the season, which saw him look more comfortable moving the puck and outskating opponents. Teams like right-shot defenders with his type of profile, especially since he can move pretty well, too. He’s a project player who’ll likely get taken in the second or third round, but you can feel comfortable in him adjusting to the pro game quite well.8. Eriks Mateiko, C, 6’5 (Prince George, WHL)
I really like Mateiko, who I feel is a bit underrated. The Latvian forward is strong, competes hard and plays exceptionally well in the defensive zone. I don’t expect him to put up a ton of points at the pro level but I think he finds enough ways to be valuable in different areas of the game, including the penalty kill, to make himself valuable. He’s getting more comfortable using his size to his advantage, including in front of the net and along the boards. There’s enough potential here to get excited about Mateiko.
Top 10 ‘big guy’ prospects for the 2024 NHL Draft
Does size matter for NHL Draft prospects? For these 10, it could give them a unique edge.
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