Whatever. If we win the lottery and pick #1 OA, sure, it will be a mildly interesting conversation as to whether we should have taken BPA Schaefer vs. possible-unicorn-1C-whoever. But nobody is really going to get upset if we take the BPA instead of the wild swing at the pitch in the dirt.
I can't even digest that nonsense.
We're not trading Forsberg, Josi, or O'Reilly, so what's the point in reading this drivel?
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lol Trotz would be fired if he did all this garbage plus FF9 and Josi have no trade clauses. Also giving up Kemmel, Sveckov, and Wood for draft picks in a shitty draft is insane. We would be in a rebuild for over a decade and never a Cup contender if all this happened.
lol no just no. He wasn’t much better than Gibson or Molendyk at the World juniors. This franchise has had enough Defensemen. My fear is another Seth Jones scenario happens where he falls to us at 4 when we are excited to get one of the top 3 forwards in the draft.
Schaefer is 2 years younger than Gibson & Molendyk and only played 2 games? 
They've watched Timonen, Hamhuis, Weber, Suter, Subban, Josi, and more... Going to take something truly special from a defenseman to make any impression.
The consensus from Scouts is the draft is not weak - maybe not super high upside guys like a Bedard , but a lot of depth in this first 25 or so spots
Top 10 is soild after that it’s a drop off in quality and end of the 1st and 2nd is like a normal 3rd round. Yes there are players to be found like any draft but the depth isn’t there. There is a reason teams were willing to trade 1st round picks years in advance of this draft.
Ehh. There was no OT in ‘98-‘99. Under that system this team would only have 59 points. Plus 5th/27 is a much better finish than 3rd/32. I still rate this as worse.
Even in this terrible season Forsberg is going to get 30 goals and 70 something points. That would have been unheard of on that team
Stamkos still has an outside shot at 30G as well. Yeah it is not great by his standards but still not too bad all things considered.
If we somehow we win the lottery and get the 1st pick and we draft Schaefer I'll be extremely disappointed. Schaefer might be the best player in the draft and we are in need of more defenseman but this team has had some elite defenseman in there years and has only made it out of the 2nd round once. This team needs a top end center more than anything.Whatever. If we win the lottery and pick #1 OA, sure, it will be a mildly interesting conversation as to whether we should have taken BPA Schaefer vs. possible-unicorn-1C-whoever. But nobody is really going to get upset if we take the BPA instead of the wild swing at the pitch in the dirt.
I just don't see the point in talking about Schaefer today, since it's like 90% we won't even get a chance at him?
"Extremely disappointed" if we win the draft lottery and get the #1OA pick is definitely not how I'd look at it. It would be a fairly Perd thing to do with this year's draft configuration, but if it happened, we shouldn't be anything but happy and excited to get Schaefer. Or to have a little post-draft fun berating Trotz for not trading down with SJ to #2 and picking up an extra choice asset or something like that. It'd still be Fun Times.
I'll be fine with Schaefer. He is probably the more sure bet for reaching his full potential (especially in Nashville). I still want my unicorn though so I'd prefer to move up to 2nd instead with SJS winning 1st. Next draft we can win 1st overall after another miserable season. Grab McKenna to compliment Misa and away we go.
IF we draft Schaefer If we win the the 1st overall yea I'll be disappointed. It would be a predators way to draft him when this franchise hasn't ever had a true star number 1 center in its existence but has had plenty of top defenseman that hasn't translated into nothing but a team making it out of the first round a handful of times.
I think every single person on this board would LOVE if we could get that elusive 1C especially after a disaster of a season like this one.
