GDT: 2024 NHL Entry Draft Part TWO: Rounds 2-7 | Sat. June 29, 11:30 a.m. | SN1, TVA Sports
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We certainly have a theme going today. Huge guys with long term potential. If size is your thing have won the draft lol
MarkovsKnee
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Merrill is a project. He played US-Prep last year. He'll play BCHL this year then is going to Harvard 2025-2026.
He's minimum 4 years away from turning pro.
He's minimum 4 years away from turning pro.
Kairi Zaide
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Canes GM legit just sorted all players by their NHLe and drafts whoever available is at the top or close to the top.
SannywithoutCompy
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Our drafting strategy seems to be going for bottom 6 potential since our future top 6/9 is filled and depth guys which usually doesn't work out very well.
I feel like it's better to go for top 6 talent, if it hits you can either slot them into a deep team or trade them for better value than you drafted them for.
Oh well.
I feel like it's better to go for top 6 talent, if it hits you can either slot them into a deep team or trade them for better value than you drafted them for.
Oh well.
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Seems to work for them. They have a good pipeline for a team that’s always picking late
Well at this point in the draft, not even teams/scout really know…to act like we know better because we’ve fallen for a draft crush AND insult the ones picking because they didn't placate us…Problem is that any dissession to a pick, quickly goes to ''You know nothing'' rebuttals and segways into mudslinging, it's tiring. And yes, I fully acknowledge that I know nothing no need to remind meloll
I don’t know man lol
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Typically I have an irrational hatred for any USHS pick made by the Habs, but I’ll let this one slide because at least he’s big and can shoot the puck.
ReimanSum1908
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I went back a little further than that because 2021-2024 doesn't really count; prospects from those drafts, outside high end talents, would only just be making their way into the NHL now.
Andrew Mangiapane
Matt Roy
Vladislav Gavrikov
Jesper Bratt
Brandon Hagel
Morgan Barron
That's about it over eight years.
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le_sean
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It’s also the 6th round and not the 1st round ahead of Claude Giroux
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Yeah, some of these guys need to take up weed, and learn to chill the f*** out.
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PHI with the random midget pick amongst giants. shame on them for breaking the big boi streak
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Habs just are picking guys that they can hold their rights for years. They can't sign all these dudes.
Gaylord Q Tinkledink
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Brandon Hagel became a ufa.
Habs invited him to their camp, but didn't sign him obvi
The nil in 15 years will be like the NBA ...the majority of players will be 6 ft 6 to 6ft 9 .....they might even add a hoop over top of the goalie net on the
Plexiglass.
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The best is when people think a certain player should go in the 2nd round but then it's the 32 NHL teams and all their hockey ops staff who are the clueless ones when he goes late in the 5th.
And they get mad at Habs brass because they didn't race fast enough to get to the front of that massive lineup at the podium to pick the player.
It is just embarrassing as are most opinions around here
Thanks for providing more amateur scout takes.Thanks for protecting HuGos feeling, you're a real soldier
Hope Hughes and company keeps ignoring your draft crushes and they continue to select the players THEY want.
SannywithoutCompy
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Yep, you might not find the unicorns that way but you're absolutely going to draft better on the whole.
Did Zetterberg and Humphreys kill someone's cat or something?
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Definitely. Doesn't work for all players but overall they end up with a few studs there and there.
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But that's what today is!!!! If we can't do that...why do we have a thread? To just write the names of who are picked....and the only response possible is...let's wait 5 years?
Or...are the only comments possible are positive ones? I know there are rules on HF...but please tell me where this is....
Yes, when you do the work, and you take the time to watch games, you come away with preferring players over others. No shit. That's the work. So when your favorite do not see the same thing, you are dissapointed. But this...is ONLY TODAY! Then, comes the camps...the years...where you follow the progression....and hope for the best.
And then in 4-5 years when the player didn't go anywhere as you've mentioned....you can say you were right...euh wait...no you can't because you will be told that it's hindsight or that we need to move on....or that this is the nature of the draft, you win some, lose some....
All this on the HOCKEY FUTURE'S BOARD. Just insane.
Anyway this year's story is already written. As it's been said every year, if you can get 2 or 3 NHL,ers out of your draft, the draft is a success. Well it's already a success, Demidov and Hage will be NHL'ers. So picking unknown or having no picks at all would have done the same thing I guess.
SannywithoutCompy
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Humphreys especially is wild to me. Wouldn't be shocked if he's PPG in college next year.
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The amount of unbelievably pedestrian USHS prospects this team has had over the years… one should have been enough
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