Sennecke over Lindstrom? Yikes
Only if Lindstrom's medicals are bad.
Right now it looks like the sense is Demidov-Lindstrom-Sennecke in that order.
I just can't see the Hawks passing on Demidov...impossible...no matter how good Dickinson is..
Demidov is thr best passer of this draft just before Catton.. He is a lefty and Bedard is a deadly right hand scorer.
..and Bedard is alone up front right now
Those 2 could be the most dynamic duo in the NHL soon
I can see it but it's not Dickinson, it's Levshunov.
- Russian factor is there, it's not a big factor but it's there.
- Demidov is a smaller winger with not great skating, this isn't the best combination with their already smaller forward group.
- Demidov has played in the MHL two years in a row, not a lot of viewings against high level competition
- They have live viewings of Levshunov, they don't have live viewings of Demidov.
- They have a big hole on right defense and for a #1 defenseman and we know teams value defenseman over wingers 95% of the time.
- Blackhawks are in a multi-year rebuild and if you forecast the next draft, it's barren on defense but full of skilled forwards and skilled forwards with size.
That s my point. You don t know what you have. In the list I sent you, maybe only Reinbacher and Guhle will be top 4 Dmen, Buium / Dickinson make it more likely that you have 3 of them.
Don t draft Buium because you have Harris. Same thing as don t draft Tkachuk because you need centers, who needs Sergachev if you can have a dynamic winger ? Remember 2021 : Habs are set for years at center with KK Suzuki Poehling Danault…
What if the internal evaluation of Hutson, Engstrom and Xhekaj are higher than yours?
What if the internal evaluation of Buium and Dickinson are lower than yours?
You don't draft Buium because you already like what you have on the left side and you aren't as bullish on him. I'm not that bullish on Buium and a bunch of other teams obvious aren't either, otherwise he'd be viewed a lot higher on the NHL affiliated lists than he is.
Levshunov fills a positional need for the Ducks, but if Chicago takes him I really don't know what they'd be looking at. And if they're comfortable enough taking whichever of Silayev/Dickinson is left.
If Hugo has the chance to secure the first forward on their board and there's considerable separation between their second, a trade up is a no-brainer even if its an overpayment.
Ducks will be looking at Levshunov/Silayev/Dickinson they need a big, rangy, defensive oriented defenseman to help insulate Mintyukov and Zellweger. They already have MacTavish, Terry, Carlsson, Zegras and Gauthier up front.
Assuming they finish bottom 5 again yes and then you trade one of the Ds once you are sure of which you want to keep, like COL did with Byram, NSH with Jones. That being said if they finish bottom 5 again it means they are betting on the wrong core : Suzuki D +8, CC D+6, Dach D+6, Newhook D+6, Guhle D+5, Barron D+5, Slaf D+3, Harris D+7 Savard veteran bottom pair on a winning team, Matheson veteran top 4D, Montembault NHL caliber goalie, i.e. the problem would be deeper than just another Dman.
So two examples of a defenseman for forward trade in the last, what, 10 years?
This is a fallacy that it's so easy to find a match if you have too many defenseman to flip them for a forward.
I don't think so.
Pronman just came out with a list that had Sennecke 3 spots ahead of Lindstrom and he's probably getting a whiff of how NHL scouts are thinking right now.
That was his own personal list, it's his mock draft that is influenced by what he is hearing. That being said, the noise around Sennecke is legit and Pronman described him as having loud tools, which he does.
