2025 Draft Thread
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Just A Bit Outside
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These donkeys will trade it for some plug 3C.
Otherwise, I want O’Brien.
Otherwise, I want O’Brien.
Nucky
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This pick shouldn't be used to select a player if you want to keep Hughes
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No player acquired for the pick will help enough anyway.
Might as well restock the pipeline.
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.
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
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So we can have another potential star ~7 years from now that prevents us from having a long term plan?
Bobby9
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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.
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
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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
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I’d rather keep it and draft a C. There’s lots in this draft.
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Me thinks O’Brien goes in the top 10 and maybe even pushing top 5. Right handed C putting up a ton of points.
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.
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
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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.
And you got 9 guys that round that never played an NHL game.
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.
Jim "eye for talent" Benning, as I was told by so many.
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To be fair, not sure if they indicated it was NHL level talent.
ECHL level maybe with the occasional AHL level.
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In 2025 by the trade deadline we were 1 point out of a playoff spot so it wouldn’t make sense for us to sell a long time top 6 winger.
In 2016 we were a bottom 3 team and we hung onto hamhius.
Analytics would have heavily favoured Robertson over Lind.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.
It would have made sense if the team was going in the right direction and not the wrong direction.
They really are switching him back and forth. His first 20 games he had double digit faces off in 17 of them. Since then he has basically alternated between center and wing. Kindel's last two games are the first games he went back to back double digit faces off in a game since mid December.
43 points in 34 games in double digit faces off taken
53 points in 25 games in games with less than double digit face offs.
A lot of factors like who they were playing against on which nights not included but he seems to be quite a bit more productive when he is taking less face offs.
Scouts aren't very high on him most ranking him near the mid to late first and for a soon to be 100 point player gives off Brayden Point vibes.
Yeah, it's been pretty 50-50 ish and totally random game-to-game.
I've seen a couple Hitmen games so I'm not going to say I'm 100% sure of the usage, but I think it's a case where he's either playing wing with Tulk/Howe on a loaded mega-line or he's been asked to play 2C and drive his own line, which would explain the lower production at C (plus he was at C more earlier in the year and appears to have just generally taken a step forward since).
Agree that his rankings are oddly low compared to a pretty similar guy like Catton in a stronger draft in 2024.
Pronman's ranking just came out today.
Schaefer
Misa
Desnoyers
Hagens
Martone
Frondell
Eklund
McQueen
Aitcheson
O'brien
Jackson Smith
Mrtka
Bear
Carbonneau
Ravensbergen
Reid
Prokhorov
Lakovic
Brady Martin
Cootes
Gastrin
Hensler
Brzustewicz
Ryabkin
Potter
Gard
Boumedienne
Fiddler
Kindel
Spence
McKinney
Zonnon
so which swede are we taking?
Schaefer
Misa
Desnoyers
Hagens
Martone
Frondell
Eklund
McQueen
Aitcheson
O'brien
Jackson Smith
Mrtka
Bear
Carbonneau
Ravensbergen
Reid
Prokhorov
Lakovic
Brady Martin
Cootes
Gastrin
Hensler
Brzustewicz
Ryabkin
Potter
Gard
Boumedienne
Fiddler
Kindel
Spence
McKinney
Zonnon
so which swede are we taking?
Don't see how he can have Kindel that low. 200 foot gamer who will have over 100 points on the year.
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