2025 NHL Entry Draft

yianik

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I'm all for BPA. But stupidly following BPA can also lead you to not pick a C in the 1st round for 10 years. So you do what Hughes did, moved up from 26 to 21 and got one of the players he wanted.

We have multiple 1sts next year, lots of prospects and likely to finish with the 10th-14th OA pick , or earlier. We need to find a willing team but we could move up a few notches if need be and target a Senneke like guy. Big guy with skill, shot, physicality and better hands than Anderson would be a great add.

Anybody fit that description in the top 15 ?
 

Boyon90

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I'm all for BPA. But stupidly following BPA can also lead you to not pick a C in the 1st round for 10 years. So you do what Hughes did, moved up from 26 to 21 and got one of the players he wanted.

We have multiple 1sts next year, lots of prospects and likely to finish with the 10th-14th OA pick , or earlier. We need to find a willing team but we could move up a few notches if need be and target a Senneke like guy. Big guy with skill, shot, physicality and better hands than Anderson would be a great add.

Anybody fit that description in the top 15 ?

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yianik

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We missed on two franchise talent in 2018 because we went for a decade-long need
My point is you should always go for BPA, but addressing need is important . You can try to achieve both by trying to move up in a draft if need be. And we were desperate in 2018, and desperation leads to mistakes.
 
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HuGo boss

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A reminder that too early rankings are just that...too early...lol. Pronman 2024 top 10 from July 2023.

1. C Macklin Celebrini
2. LW Cole Eiserman
3. RW Ivan Demidov
4. LD Sam Dickinson
5. RW Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
6. RD Carter Yakemchuk
7. RD Artyom Levshunov
8. LD Aron Kiviharju
9. RD Charlie Elick
10.C Konsta Helenius

Wait 4 years?
 

rahad

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Oh yeah, the top of this class is exciting. Hagens is a beauty, but Martone is too. 6'4, crazy skilled.

Hagens, Martone & Frondell have the potential to be top line / franchise players. It's a deeper draft comparable to 2023 where there was a fab 4 and still a whole bunch of potential top 6 forwards after them.

A lot of centers in top 16, too. 7 of first 10 picks could be centers.
6ft4 at the age of 17? Most of the website put him at 6ft3.

It would be nice to draft a center with the potential to be better than Nick Suzuki and Dach. We already drafted 2 elite wingers and one top 3 D.
 
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SakuKoivu11

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Not to mention at the deadline we probably get another 1st round pick and several 2nd or 3rd round picks as well.


Pending on how Florida and Calgary end up, might be a very good pick. Our own is probably a top 10 pick as well.
 

Gaylord Q Tinkledink

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If you have twins on September 14th and the 2nd one is born on the 15th, you can have twins drafted in separate years.

Or whatever the cut off date is and the day before
 
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overlords

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If you have twins on September 14th and the 2nd one is born on the 15th, you can have twins drafted in separate years.

Or whatever the cut off date is and the day before

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FrankMTL

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Funny enough, because of the fact we managed to draft a potentially game breaking forward, I think I would be able to stomach one more bottom 5 finish.....especially if we can get our hands on another top line talent or top pairing defenseman.
 

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