GDT: 2024 NHL Entry Draft, at The Sphere in Vegas, Friday, June 28, 7 p.m. edt | SN, TVA Sports, ESPN, NHLN

[The Last Red]

If the idea though is to move up in the 10-15 to get Eiserman....seems to me we are aiming D at 5 'cause we know Lindstrom and Demidov will be gone.

How satisfied will you be with Buium-Eiserman?

Extremely. But I think one of Demidov or Lindstrom are there at 5.

 

[Jaynki]

It’s been fun speculating with you all the past few weeks.

May tomorrow’s draft bring some hope to our hockey team.

There is two scenario possible :

Hope, fun, unanimous rally behind the player. Only happen with Demidov, maybe Lindstrom.

Death threat, bigotry, harassment, borderline civil war if anything other than those two.

 

[Tyson]

Tomorrow night will be epic.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

In fact, what I have a hard time getting, is how this fanbase can be so confident in this management when this is the situation we find ourselves after 3 full years of tanking.

It seems people have fallen in love with "trusting the process" so much that they have forgotten the goal of a rebuild is to actually get better at some point in time.

Not saying they should all be fired. But a sane level of skepticism might be needed here. Instead of parroting "Went Wughes" and "St-Louis the player whisperer" nonsense.

We're nowhere near what a fanbase would hope after three years of tanking.

It's only been 2 drafts, dude. 2022 & 2023.

The positiveness is mainly due to how our young players are doing particularly Suzuki, Slafkovsky & Guhle.

We haven't exited the rebuild yet.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

No votes for Catton yet?
C'mon Catton fans, go vote, don't leave it to none.

I'm a big fan, if Demidov is not available, he's my choice.

 

[Deebs]

Pass on top-10 prospect Cayden Lindstrom at your own risk

After losing half his standout draft year to injury, Cayden Lindstrom presents a risk-reward challenge to evaluators. But passing on the fast, big-bodied forward carries major kick-yourself potential for NHL clubs.

www.sportsnet.ca

Lindstrom’s agency happily made his medical reports available to all 32 outfits, but if the words “size” and “speed” always get teams excited, putting “big man” and “back issue” together has a way of making them twitch. “I definitely got a lot of questions about it, but I don’t think it was a major concern,” says Lindstrom, not long after participating in the combine’s pull-up and bench press tests. “I’m healing up well, I’m on the ice three to four times a week, I work out in the gym about five to six times a week. It wasn’t too much of a concern.”

 

[Scintillating10]

We haven't had a 100 point guy since days of Kirk Muller. Full court press for Demidov

 

[The Last Red]

I'm a big fan, if Demidov is not available, he's my choice.

Zero chance. Sorry.

 

[KevSkillz4]

I have a feeling we're taking Silayev if he's there (which I'm totally at peace with due to his long-term upside of impacting a game) and @KevSkillz4 spends the entire Canada Day weekend playing mailbox baseball.

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[ReHabs]

There is two scenario possible :

Hope, fun, unanimous rally behind the player. Only happen with Demidov, maybe Lindstrom.

Death threat, bigotry, harassment, borderline civil war if anything other than those two.

I don’t think the latter is likely to happen. The field is too dispersed — you have Buium, you have Dickinson, you have Iginla, etc.

Last year the pressure was high to pick a forward, this year it is less forward heavy and if Demidov and Lindstrom are out the field he totally open.

The Habs won’t pick “wrong” that night. Sure the player might bust but it won’t happen that night.

 

[salbutera]

We need Eiserchad. Anyone that talks about themselves in the third person is such a freak that there's no way he's not going to be good

Yup - the cherry on top would be if he possessed a Marty Feldman eye while doing so

 

[Tyson]

We haven't had a 100 point guy since days of Kirk Muller. Full court press for Demidov

Actually several years before the Muller era.

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

Pick at #5

 

[salbutera]

What would make me the most happiest if Demidov is not on the board at 5?

1) Habs trade down with the Flames and add the Canucks pick.

2) Habs use the Jets 1st and Canucks 1st combined with another player to get the 10th pick from the Devils. Bet you the Devils still like Anderson and we can offer 50% retention.

Habs end up with the 9th and 10th picks. 2 players from this list:
* Lindstrom if he slips
* Iggy if the Flames don't take him but probably will
* Buium
* Parekh
* Catton
* Eiserman
* Sennecke
* Helenius

Almost impossible any of Lindstrom, Buium, Parekh slip to 9-10

 

[Saundies]

I don’t think the latter is likely to happen. The field is too dispersed — you have Buium, you have Dickinson, you have Iginla, etc.

Last year the pressure was high to pick a forward, this year it is less forward heavy and if Demidov and Lindstrom are out the field he totally open.

The Habs won’t pick “wrong” that night. Sure the player might bust but it won’t happen that night.

Yeah I agree.. people seem to think last year or even Slaf's year is the norm. It's not.

No one is going to have unanimous approval (outside of maybe Demidov) but the pick shouldn't be as polarizing as the last two years (unless we pick Eiserman at 5 or a random LHD that isn't ranked top 15).

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

Pick at #26

 

[Kents polished head]

It's only been 2 drafts, dude. 2022 & 2023.

The positiveness is mainly due to how our young players are doing particularly Suzuki, Slafkovsky & Guhle.

We haven't exited the rebuild yet.

The optimism on Slafkovsky is based on a great half season when most games didn't mean anything. Can we just wait a full year?

As far as Guhle is concerned, he's a guy who's playing a role way too big for his abilities, and who had a lot of trouble early last season before being put with Savard to stabilize his game. The very fact he's a reason why this fanbase is positive about where things are going is saying more about the quantity of kool-aid being drank by our fans than it says about Guhle's actual potential. This is a guy with very little offensive abilities who, frankly, is a good second pairing D but far from being a core player.

As for Suzuki, the only thing I'm seeing is that he's entering his prime with this team nowhere near competitive enough to make the most of it.

That's a lot of optimism based on, honestly, no tangible results or improvement.

I mean, the bar has been set so low that we're all, unanimously optimistic because our 1st overall pick had a 50 points sophomore season and that one of our young Ds don't look absolutely terrible?

Come on... This rebuild is not going anywhere so far. The only "core pieces" that were added by this management excluding the draft are, thus far, guys who have yet to get a 40 points season.

 

[Mrb1p]

Pick at #26



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[Rapala]

No PPG player , No 1 D , No 1 G , but fans want us to exit the rebuild...nice

A lot of people completely understand where we are.
Not likely to regress or stay stagnant at this point.
Didn't necessarily maximize our original tank seasons.
Got 1OA spot on but certainly did not end up in a great position year 2 spin it any way you want.
I projected .500 hockey last season but that was with a healthy Dach.
I think we are a bottom of the bubble team this year providing not too many thing go off the rails.
We should be in shed mode because this team can be improved by subtraction in a number of areas.
That was always going to be Hughes' greatest challenge.
Do we have enough assets including Cap to start dumping some of those contracted players for next to nothing and find upgrades I think so.
I think we should try to bolster what we do have as much as possible all the while continuing to evaluate the growth potential of the talent on hand.

 

[salbutera]

We haven't had a 100 point guy since days of Kirk Muller. Full court press for Demidov

Muller never hit 100, Naslund was the last Hab to do so in 1985-1986 season.

Muller & Damphousse got over 90pts in 92-93 season - Vinny was 24 OA and Kirk was 26OA. There were 21 players w over 100pts

 

[HuGo Burner Acc]

How is this nasty , 4 of them are unproven lol

So is michkov but I bet you consider him nasty. That's like saying bedard-demidov combo isn't nasty, demidov is unproven. What, you want me to say potentially? There, happy now?

 

[crosbyshow]

Why not just draft an elite DMAN

People need to realize that every NHL GM will select an elite DMAN or center over an elite winger

If there's a year where elite Dmen are available, this is literally the one, you end up adding size to an undersized team and filling up an essential position with a potentially elite asset

Were lucky that we're stacked on D and can afford to go winger

Demidov is an number 1 winger and maybe as important as a number 1 center like Jagr, Patrick Kane, Kucherov.

Levvhunov is not a number 1 d on a great team.

Demidov any day of the week and Chicago will do it.

Demidov is an elite playmaker....and Bedard us an elite shooter.

The equation is simple.....

Celebrini = SJ 100%

Demidov = Chicago 100%.

Teams wants to move second to draft Demidov. Chicago says no....if their Guy would be a d that would accept to draft a bit later

 

[BergevinBurner]

No PPG player , No 1 D , No 1 G , but fans want us to exit the rebuild...nice

Correction, Dach was PPG this year and we don't have 1 D, we have like 12 D.

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

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McCagg is such a charlatan as he is just outright lying at this point. There is no such source and he is lust using the typical orange man "they say" tactic to hide the fact that he is entirely f.o.s.

 

[NORiculous]

McCagg is such a charlatan as he is just outright lying at this point. There is no such source and he is lust using the typical orange man "they say" tactic to hide the fact that he is entirely f.o.s.

Maybe but Demidov or Buium is fine by me.