Saucerhead Tharpe
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What has me really excited about this pick, is that Silayev's ice time *increased* to over 20 minutes per game in the KHL playoffs. Kid was 17 until early April. He is, indeed, a unicorn.
Yeah, the league took some steps to speed things along in regards to the selection announcements .. I like it. Also a lot less Devils folks on stage I noticed.The league asked teams not to do all the thanking the city and champions stuff. Which was good, it was rote and boring.
Talking about assumptions when you are assuming it’s more than two years.Are the details really that hard for you to understand the differences?
First you're assuming when this player arrives in 3 or more years that he wont have the growing pains that ALL new defender do...I guarantee you that he will.
Second a week ago I listened to you all tell me how a Siegenthaler or Bahl types is "easily replaced" ....no we celebrate using a 10th overall for one? You want to talk about switching lanes in the intersection?
Are the details really that hard for you to understand the differences?
First you're assuming when this player arrives in 3 or more years that he wont have the growing pains that ALL new defender do...I guarantee you that he will.
Second a week ago I listened to you all tell me how a Siegenthaler or Bahl types is "easily replaced" ....no we celebrate using a 10th overall for one? You want to talk about switching lanes in the intersection?
Silayev skates backwards better than Kakko skates forward.Starting to sound like Rags fans with all this "played against men" shit.
There is a literal chasm, gulf, peninsula in terms of quality between *HL and NHL.
Answering my own post after reading an article from The Athletic. Seems McGroarty was possibly headed to The Wild for pick #13, but Wild switched gears when Buium was sitting there. Other teams apparently kicked the tires in the middle part of round one, but nothing came to fruition.Any scuttlebutt on Necas or McGroarty this morning? Was surprised neither guy was moved yesterday.
Plus the three or five teams that didn’t do it, got called out for being lame as if they skipped a handshake lineThe league asked teams not to do all the thanking the city and champions stuff. Which was good, it was rote and boring.
Thanks a lot! I copy+pasted these. Something to watch during the 2nd and 3rd round.of the list of players who i think might actually be there (basically just cross-referencing w bobs list):
-shuravin. going silayev and silayev-lite might feel redundant but the value would be too much to pass on
-muggli. lesser end defensive projection but still an elite transitional threat with great physical instincts
-mustard. big target here. speedy, high intensity forechecker with a great shot. maybe a center
-villeneuve. another big one. forechecker who loves to hit and agitate. good scoring upside. probably a center
-bednarik/boilard. center who can skate and play all 200ft feet of the ice. much needed player type in the farm
-he. speed, compete, scoring, and perhaps some upside hidden by being on a poor niagra team
-gojsic/ustinkov. upside swings who still address system needs. neither ranked on bobs list, might even get to pick them later
-kos/ziemer/traff/spellacy. basically different flavors/upsides of the same high compete checking line player
-moysevich/zarubin/nabokov. maybe not with our first 3rd rounder but im fine targeting a goalie and we should be focusing overseas
-might not love the howe/ritchie/zether type players pair with our roster but all would warrant a pick there
theres really no shortage of options/directions right now, and i could easily come up with more. the good about the depth of this years class is that from the 40s to our pick. i really dont think theres that dramatic of a value change. the bad, though, is we need centers, skaters, and forecheckers above all else, so if a couple of those names like mustard/villeneuve go early, its gonna be annoying because i dont think we'll have many other decent options down the board
Nobody they picked is ‘replacing’ Bahl this year, that’ll be whoever they sign or trade for later this offseason. He might replace Siegs in THREE years if he’s still on the team then but as of now he’s just a prospect. You can’t really complain about us using a pick on a guy two years away from coming to NA when you were one of the ones beating the drum we can’t trade three straight first rounders under any circumstances. Nobody we picked was likely to be a big contributor before 2026-27 at earliest anyway.Are the details really that hard for you to understand the differences?
First you're assuming when this player arrives in 3 or more years that he wont have the growing pains that ALL new defender do...I guarantee you that he will.
Second a week ago I listened to you all tell me how a Siegenthaler or Bahl types is "easily replaced" ....no we celebrate using a 10th overall for one? You want to talk about switching lanes in the intersection?
i can see fit over buium with casey, nemec, and hughes in the fold. i can see see ceiling over dickinson. him taking time to develop offense shouldn't be a problem as we have lots of offensive potential on the blueline already. the devils will be fine with him focusing on d the first few seasons, which should keep his salary down.Dickinson is a gregarious kid. NJ for better or worse saw Silayev over him and Buium for whatever reason.
Because he is joyless and has no soul.Someone has to explain to me why Yzerman dumped Walman to get cap space and will use it all for a worse / older Dman
Yeah .. lets go big talk Fitzy .. do something!Where trades
I think a reason buium fell was the NCAA factor. I think Calgary and Ottawa passed because of this. Calgary has already lost Adam fox and didn’t want a repeat.I don’t see a lot of people being upset, it seems more like people are selling themselves on Silayev being the best fit for the Devils.
I don’t think it’s a bad pick either, it’s just painful to have Buium and to a lesser extent Dickinson sitting there and passing on them.
If the options were alternatively something like Silayev, Sennecke, Yakemchuk, I would be way more content with the pick.
I do think that Buium sliding is going to make a lot of these teams look bad. But that’s not an indictment on Silayev’s play.
Here's my list of best available players.It's difficult to know how the second and early third round goes, but @StevenToddIves , @Guadana . @evnted do you have some names the Devils could/should target with their third round picks?