2025 NHL Draft: Lose a ton for Porter Martone

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@LilLeeroy given you seem to be a Hagens fan, do you have him at 1OA or 2 behind Schaefer?

 

[Star Platinum]

I do find it a little funny that all the lists seem to be pretending that Mrtka isn’t going top 10.

18 points in his first 20 WHL games, massive human, okay enough skater, right handed defenseman in a draft that has some meh defense. A GM is gonna take him top 10 and go golfing after.

Is he getting PP1 time to rack up all those assists? How does he look handling and passing the puck?

 

[LilLeeroy]

@LilLeeroy given you seem to be a Hagens fan, do you have him at 1OA or 2 behind Schaefer?

I'm not really a prospect ranker, but I really don't like late rising guys like Schaefer especially when their rise is happening when they aren't playing games. Very Trey Lance vibes.

 

[Barrie22]

I'm not really a prospect ranker, but I really don't like late rising guys like Schaefer especially when their rise is happening when they aren't playing games. Very Trey Lance vibes.

How is Schaefer a late riser? Before the season he was ranked 2nd by the person who has 1 of the best rankings for how nhl teams are thinking.

And as one of it not the youngest players in the draft, he came into the season and took his play to the next level. Hence why he has become an almost guaranteed 1st OA.

 

[Zarzh]

all this anti hagens talk is starting to sound like cope for when we pick 3rd.

I'd much rather have Schaefer or Misa.

 

[LilLeeroy]

How is Schaefer a late riser? Before the season he was ranked 2nd by the person who has 1 of the best rankings for how nhl teams are thinking.

And as one of it not the youngest players in the draft, he came into the season and took his play to the next level. Hence why he has become an almost guaranteed 1st OA.

If that happens that will be great with the Sharks having at least of 75% chance of not picking 1.

 

[Kcoyote3]

Is he getting PP1 time to rack up all those assists? How does he look handling and passing the puck?

Yeah he’s getting pretty much all the minutes. PP, ES, PK. Decent passer. Is trying to carry the puck more but I wouldn’t call him a natural at it. Good wrist shot from the point.

It’s more a function of he’s one of the best they’ve got so he’s getting all the minutes thrown at him.

 

[Juxtaposer]

How is Schaefer a late riser? Before the season he was ranked 2nd by the person who has 1 of the best rankings for how nhl teams are thinking.

And as one of it not the youngest players in the draft, he came into the season and took his play to the next level. Hence why he has become an almost guaranteed 1st OA.

Literally the only criticism the Hagens guys have for Schaefer is "small sample size". Ignoring that he was an OHL 1OA selection, was the best defenseman as an underage at the U18 last May, was by far the best player at the Hlinka this summer, played at an elite level in the OHL this fall/winter despite coming off mono, and was by far the best player as an underager on the Canadian WJC team (which, while they underperformed, had a lot of highly skilled 19 year olds). Yes, his production wasn't great as a 16 year old in the OHL... whose is? His team was bad and he had two personal tragedies occur. It's insane to me to criticize his D-1 OHL production like some gotcha.

Looking through the early pages of this thread, I called Schaefer my favorite for this draft as far back as May 7th, 2024. He's a riser in the sense that he quite literally got visibly better every single game I've seen him play, but I was sure he was a top-5 pick before this season even started.