Prospect Info: 2025 DRAFT Thread

[Jovavic]

Hey, it's happened to the Rangers and Hurricanes in the past few years. That's how they got Laf and Svechnikov respectively. Flyers in 2017, too, although they got a dud.

Caps for Ovechkin. Devils too for Hirscher? Looks like Metro division has some luck!

Just so the Pens can win twice in a row

 

[EspenK]

It would be a CBJ thing to finally win a draft lottery but to be so far down the list that we can’t get the 1st overall.

I'd take ti and the big right handed d with no (one) vowels in his name.

 

[squashmaple]

I'd take ti and the big right handed d with no (one) vowels in his name.

I'm a little gunshy on big Czech teenage defensemen tbh.

 

[Jovavic]

I'm a little gunshy on big Czech teenage defensemen tbh.

They haven't worked out starting with the Klesla

 

[tunnelvision]

During a commercial break in SWE-FIN, camera cuts to audience where a kind of intense looking Sweden's U20 HC Havelid is explaining something to the Jackets euro scout. I can't read lips but he must have been criticizing Jackets' drafting?

 

[Doggy]

They haven't worked out starting with the Klesla

I think that's a little harsh. Did he produce like a #4OA pick? Probably not but injuries didn't help and MacLean likely did a shit job of developing him by rushing him to the NHL before he was ready. Looking back, that was a pretty bad draft class, especially in the top fifteen outside of Heatley, Gaborik who went 2-3 and we never had a chance to draft and then Hartnell and Hainsey.

In the end, he was not a bad player, he was a decent contributor when healthy on a bad team.

 

[MoeBartoli]

Klesla was the precursor to Ryan Murray.

 

[Jovavic]

Klesla looked like a baby deer out there. Doug totally ruined him by rushing him into the league (first sign that he probably didn't know what he was doing) Is there an alternate reality where Rusty isn't a third pairing defenseman? Maybe, but that one would need to skate better and have a higher hockey IQ.