GDT: 2024 NHL Entry Draft

[henchman21]

I love the draft, probably my favourite aspect of hockey after winning the Stanley Cup. However, the 1st round is about 30 to 40 minutes too long. They must reduce the time limit from 3 minutes to 2 and if teams want to do a trade, then give them unlimited timeouts that increase the limit to 5 minutes.


How's setting up the bear traps?

By trap do you mean inviting them in? Have a new big dog?

 

[S E P H]

By trap do you mean inviting them in? Have a new big dog?

Your post reminds me of this story I read in the past lol.

Family Realizes Pet Dog Is a Bear After Animal Starts to Walk Around on Hind Legs

The family believed their pet was a Tibetan Mastiff until it started walking around on its hind legs and grew to be 250 pounds

people.com

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Hate dubas but i wish we would take the long shots like Mac Swanson instead of random overager russian in the 7th round. Like... Do we just give each region a round they can pick?

 

[Vaslof]

Your post reminds me of this story I read in the past lol.

Family Realizes Pet Dog Is a Bear After Animal Starts to Walk Around on Hind Legs

The family believed their pet was a Tibetan Mastiff until it started walking around on its hind legs and grew to be 250 pounds

people.com

Wise choice by the family, unlike the guy who lived with bears and one day got eaten.

 

[Balthazar]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807186348081922354

 

[BrickNHL]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807186348081922354

Oh no, I’m so sad

 

[JoeSakic13]

Apparently Budaj is leaving to another NHL organization, for a bigger role. Good for him.

Stupid sexy Flanders

 

[Balthazar]

Pronman's grade for our draft is "C"

 

[JoeSakic13]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807186348081922354

Misquote. Duchene is working on getting hair extensions in Dallas, but may have to settle for off-market products.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Pronman's grade for our draft is "C"

Seems high to me

 

[Balthazar]

Seems high to me

It's near the bottom

 

[avalanche_country]

F Duchene but hate seeing him staying with a contender. I want him to retire with no Stanley cups

 

[Bender]

Seems high to me

Yeah pronman is high as a kite

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Nabokov has this weird, super low stance that makes him look even tinnier than he is.

Entire top half of the net is open. It's not just this picture, I watched 4 videos of him on YouTube and he's always like that.

NHL shooters will expose that open upper half of the net quite easily. He'll need to adjust this God awful stance.

 

[Richard88]

A plethora of reasons quite frankly.

- CMacs presser last night being the strongest indicator.
- The fact we haven't traded him yet, with the 2024 draft being over that was obviously the most ideal window to move him for a futures based return.
- The fact the Avs moved down a number of times in the draft to get additional draft picks.
- And quite frankly the smoke has died off with his name the last couple of days.


Plenty of things pointing towards the Avs deciding to keep Colton, and likely weren't able to find common ground with Drouin.


Obviously it's not for certain and things could still change. But we're also less then 48 hours away now. So time is certainly running out.

More likely they simply haven't been able to line up an adequate replacement 3C to make a Colton trade viable. If a decent 3C at a low enough caphit becomes available they'll probably circle back to the teams interested in Colton and then also Allan Walsh.

 

[Ararana]

F Duchene but hate seeing him staying with a contender. I want him to retire with no Stanley cups

Then Dallas is definitely where you want him

 

[forsbergavs32]

Nabokov has this weird, super low stance that makes him look even tinnier than he is.

Entire top half of the net is open. It's not just this picture, I watched 4 videos of him on YouTube and he's always like that.

NHL shooters will expose that open upper half of the net quite easily. He'll need to adjust this God awful stance.

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I’m sure the Avs goalie staff will work with him on things like that

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Nabokov has this weird, super low stance that makes him look even tinnier than he is.

Entire top half of the net is open. It's not just this picture, I watched 4 videos of him on YouTube and he's always like that.

NHL shooters will expose that open upper half of the net quite easily. He'll need to adjust this God awful stance.

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Apparently that was his stance in previous years which is why he never got drafted despite sick numbers but has completely changed for this year.

 

[S E P H]

Nabokov has this weird, super low stance that makes him look even tinnier than he is.

Entire top half of the net is open. It's not just this picture, I watched 4 videos of him on YouTube and he's always like that.

NHL shooters will expose that open upper half of the net quite easily. He'll need to adjust this God awful stance.

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It's the same way Bobrovsky plays, almost superfast spider-like down low which is almost impossible to beat him, but weak when shooters get some extra time and snipe it up top.

 

[BrickNHL]

Pronman's grade for our draft is "C"

Feels like we had a god awful middle of the draft

Liked Nabokov and then Humphreys and Pitner

Everything else was kinda shitty, and I would say you never know with draft picks but we do know with the Avs and their picks. f***ing CMac bringing another jabroni friend from the jackets to do our scouting. Really not a fan of CMac like where the f*** you getting your haircuts from? Why hasn’t anyone close to him told him it looks awful

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Apparently that was his stance in previous years which is why he never got drafted despite sick numbers but has completely changed for this year.

Makes sense.

I’d stay the hell away from a guy with a stance like that. Glad to hear he made the adjustment already.

 

[the_fan]

Are we complaining about not picking good players in round 7 again? Haven’t we learned?

 

[Mighty Makar]

I’m getting drunk tonight.

 

[NOTENOUGHRYJOTHINGS]

More likely they simply haven't been able to line up an adequate replacement 3C to make a Colton trade viable. If a decent 3C at a low enough caphit becomes available they'll probably circle back to the teams interested in Colton and then also Allan Walsh.

Everyone wants to dump Colton so badly but the team does need another 2 centres.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

It's the same way Bobrovsky plays, almost superfast spider-like down low which is almost impossible to beat him, but weak when shooters get some extra time and snipe it up top.

Well, it’s super high risk and not a recipe for success. You don’t tell most goalies “just be like Bobrovsky” who is an athletic freak of nature.

Based on what @GirardSpinorama said, it’s literally the reason he wasn’t drafted previous years and he has rightfully changed that over the past season.