2025 Draft Thread

[lawrence]

We have our 2025 1st round pick until further notice.
Let’s chat.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

These donkeys will trade it for some plug 3C.

Otherwise, I want O’Brien.

 

[Nucky]

This pick shouldn't be used to select a player if you want to keep Hughes

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

This pick shouldn't be used to select a player if you want to keep Hughes

No player acquired for the pick will help enough anyway.

Might as well restock the pipeline.

 

[VanJack]

With the acquisition of San Jose's third rounder in the Soucy trade, the Canucks are in a rare position heading into the June draft. They have picks in every round of the draft for the first time in what seems like ages.

I really don't know how strong or deep the 2025 draft will be. I see some reports on-line that it won't be that strong once you get past the top players.

But at the very least, the Canucks will be able to re-stock the prospect cupboard--which after all is what HF Futures is all about.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

No player acquired for the pick will help enough anyway.

Might as well restock the pipeline.

So we can have another potential star ~7 years from now that prevents us from having a long term plan?

 

[Bobby9]

We keep pretending like we have a team just on the cusp of greatness so we should stop drafting and chase 25 year old players with the picks.

Newsflash our core is v mid. We need to keep adding prospects and do a slow turn over of this core.

Need to draft a forward.

 

[Nucky]

No player acquired for the pick will help enough anyway.

Might as well restock the pipeline.

Probably true, but you have to try. Hughes is that good. They wouldn't be in this mess if they didn't try to take shortcuts in the past, but at this point they've already dug too far.

If Hughes leave then we should finally get the real rebuild unless Aquillini is _____ded

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Probably true, but you have to try. Hughes is that good. They wouldn't be in this mess if they didn't try to take shortcuts in the past, but at this point they've already dug too far.

If Hughes leave then we should finally get the real rebuild unless Aquillini is _____ded

I’d rather keep it and draft a C. There’s lots in this draft.

 

[Agent007]

Lots of high end offensive centres in the first round this year. Mid to late first has O'Brien, Bear, Martin, Ryabkin, Cootes, Kindel, Nesbitt.

Hope we keep our first this year to pick one of these guys as we don't have any centre prospects in the org with top 6 potential.

Me thinks O’Brien goes in the top 10 and maybe even pushing top 5. Right handed C putting up a ton of points.

 

[MS]

Kindel and Bear aren't centers. They have Kindel listed at C and Tulk the RW but Tulk has taken 300 more face-offs than Kindel and most often has been center when I've seen him play.

Lynden Lakovic (winger with size) mid round first would be nice to draft. Owen Martin of Spokane in the 2-3 round another center.

Bear is definitely not a C but Kindel has moved back and forth between C and wing and I think he'll probably stick at C moving up levels.

 

[nuxnux1]

2016 by a mile, id rather keep boeser even as a self rental than get a late second or whatever the best offer was. Maybe he has a change of heart and they get a decent contract for him too.

 

[Bubbles]

Sometimes, drafting is really a crapshoot. Looking at 2017, and seeing how Robertson was taken in the 2nd. Kole Lind was taken 6 spots ahead. Gadjovich was taken in that same round and actually outscored Robertson in junior. I think I also said that Vilardi would end up being better than Pettersson (at the time), didn't think that was even a close argument a few years ago.

And you got 9 guys that round that never played an NHL game.

 

[Michael Dal Swolle]

Sometimes, drafting is really a crapshoot. Looking at 2017, and seeing how Robertson was taken in the 2nd. Kole Lind was taken 6 spots ahead. Gadjovich was taken in that same round and actually outscored Robertson in junior. I think I also said that Vilardi would end up being better than Pettersson (at the time), didn't think that was even a close argument a few years ago.

And you got 9 guys that round that never played an NHL game.

"Why isn't anyone taking Kole Lind???!" is even funnier now that we can look back and see at least 5 NHL regulars being drafted after him just in that second round alone.

 

[bossram]

"Why isn't anyone taking Kole Lind???!" is even funnier now that we can look back and see at least 5 NHL regulars being drafted after him just in that second round alone.

Jim "eye for talent" Benning, as I was told by so many.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Jim "eye for talent" Benning, as I was told by so many.

To be fair, not sure if they indicated it was NHL level talent.

ECHL level maybe with the occasional AHL level.