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Pre-Game Talk: 2025 NHL Draft Thread
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kimzey59
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Depending on where we end up, it wouldn't be the worst thing.
That said, the #4 pick is well within reach and we should really be focused on getting there.
do you think army realizes the opportunity he has to maybe grab a true difference maker this year? Seems like anyone in the top seven and in my opinion especially Martone or Desnoyers is a player that could really propel us forward in the coming years. or to my frustrations have the veterans play a ton and keep us out of this range? Thanks for discussion guys.
We're winnin the lottery so there's no point in talkin about these guys goin #3-10
We're winnin the lottery so there's no point in talkin about these guys goin #3-10
C'mon man, we don't have that mega market luck like the Rangers and Hawks do....
I’d take the second lotto ball, grab Misa and never look back!!!We're winnin the lottery so there's no point in talkin about these guys goin #3-10
We're winnin the lottery so there's no point in talkin about these guys goin #3-10
Fez Whatley
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The biggest win on draft day will be if the Blackhawks miss out on desnoyers
kimzey59
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It would be hilarious if the Chickenhawks dropped to #5 after the lottery.
BlueMed
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Army insists on this team being competitive despite all signs that this core group doesn't have any cohesiveness or ability to lead this team against the league's best. We may very well end up in Minnesota Mild territory without enough top end talent after this is all said and done...
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I think you really have to fully commit to like 7+ years of being very bad to go the full route, and there is no route that comes with guaranteed success. I don’t know that the blues group is necessarily making every best choice, but I think they don’t have the flexibility that an armchair gm like us have. In order to move players they need a destination and dance partner.
I think a lot of the Blues condition is based on the pandemic cap. Every team froze.
The pandemic cap forced action. Previously signed deals eliminated the ability to make choices. Most every team in some kind of cap challenge.
I’d guess if you laid out 10 plans to rebuild the team that the path we’re on has a high chance of success but also a lower dwell time. That being said those 10 plans wouldn’t be all that crazily different: it’s hard to make moves in this environment.
IMO tho none of it matters. McDavid, Matthews, Marner, Eichel, MacKinnon and Makar are going to battle on stacked teams for the next 2-5 years. We don’t have those guys. Their teams will be wagons. It’s futile to try harder than we are, to jeopardize the future to be better now, but it’s wasteful to have a fire sale and lose a lot of organizational talent value.
This is a big ship. It takes a moment to turn around. The process of turning around isn’t achieved in a day or a draft. It’s a gradual process where you’re maximizing the value you have given the circumstances, selling things to the market as they build the capacity and appetite to pay the bill. Metering the exchange of core from one group to the next while providing an environment that is as conducive to winning hockey as possible so that you never have to stop being that way. I think their philosophy is that You don’t want to turn winning hockey on and off. You want to keep it always on; do the things (like Fowler, Texier, Matt Joseph, Faksa) to give a chance, and then use the opportunity that failure provides to improve.
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