Gosh darn character getting in the way“I was telling my agent, if they will pass on me, I’m going to fill their nets with pucks,” Zadina said. “I want to prove to Detroit that they make a pretty good decision.”
“I think I am going to help him do that,” Veleno said. “Our types of games are different — he is more of a scorer, and I’m more of a passer, so hopefully I can help him with that. But I mean, for any player who slides in the draft, obviously it kind of gets to you a little bit and you want to kind of shove it to the other teams that passed you.
“He is good guy, so if we play together, it will be awesome,” Zadina said. “He is a good center, so we could play well together. If he will pass me the puck so I can score the goals, it would be awesome.”
I f***ing love these two already.
At 6th Overall the Red Wings Take Filip Zadina
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I think Zadina is going to be the first Jersey I buy since the Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Lidstrom era. I think that highly of him.
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Been setting money aside for Larkin the day they lock him into a new deal.
Unfortunately I only have Datsyuk so that's kinda dated now.
Who is that in the black jumpsuit running the drill with him? Whoever it is, they still got it.
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Here’s the shift by shift video alluded to earlier in the thread -
2 hrs of Zadina footage
And can watch McIsaac too he’s #14
2 hrs of Zadina footage
And can watch McIsaac too he’s #14
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This years draft (Zadina for the most part) has really brought this Wings sub forum together. I feel like everyone’s posts are more positive
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I definitely already looked to see if they were selling his Jersey yet. The second they have one I will be buying one.
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Khan had an article saying they think he'll make it. Pretty sure hes pretty well guaranteed to get the 9 games minimum, Adding 2 rookies like him and Rasmussen wouldnt be very red wings like, but they also havent had prospects of that calibre forever
The wings have a legit elite prospect now. Larkin has been great and is a good piece, but Zadina has that turn a franchise around potential. When was the last time the wings had an elite prospect like this? I do the same thing when I wake up lol
I wasnt talking about Zadina, I was talking about the younger players in DRW in general. Ive seen high hope for several of them here, and I've also seen some nice goals, but at this level almost every player can get into a hot streak, so you need players that does not dissapear and not just play great when they feel for it. Before we got Z and Datsuyk, but Zee is now getting slower and slower for each season and Datsuyk is gone.
Time is now for the new generation to step up, and to step up big. DRW now have a large pool of players with great JR career behind them, because of that DRW can also put some pressure on them now, a lazy effort and you're benched. No excuses.
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<<Waits for Mike Green signing.>>Of course everybody's happy...free agency hasn't started yet.
Hey guys, Coyotes fan here. Seems like most of you guys are thrilled with this pick, and I get it. On the other hand, I have to say that I think Holland made a big mistake. He is missing out on Quinn Hughes and you guys have zero...zero quality defensemen on the roster. You don’t win with flashy wingers...you win with goaltending, defensive and center ice depth. Holland took the shiny object and passed on what the team needs more than anything. Hughes is a gem and played at UM and he completely whiffed. It looks sexy now sure, but I think a few years from now this pick will prove to be regrettable. You can trade and sign wingers relatively easy but you can’t go out and trade for guys like Hughes, or Hayton who we took, without giving up and arm and a leg...if at all.
You can still win with elite wingers. Zadina is better than Hughes and at this point in the rebuild you take bpa. We have Hronek, chilowski, hickets, sulak, Lindstrom, McIsaac all coming up that will be good defenseman. As far as hayton goes your Gm made the dumbest mistake of the draft passing up Zadina for that kid. Hayton won’t be able to hold zadina’s jock strap throughout their careers
our defensive prospects were much better than our forward prospects prior to the draft. We took BPA, which happened to be a position of great need as well. At this point of a rebuild (the early stages) we just need any elite players regardless of position. Zadina was by far teh best shot at such a player.
exactly. All this talk about our poor defensive depth, when in reality we were even worse when it comes to forward prospects. On defense we could look towards guys like hicketts, hronek, cholo, lindstrom, even guys like Sulak or sarrjivali who can come in as defensive prospects with a shot of making some sort of impact on our group of 6 defenders.
Forward cupboard was actually really bare. We had svech and ras obviously, but that was really it for top 9 forward prospects (i say that because 4th line players really should be a dime a dozen and easily filled). Maybe guys like givanni smith or holmstrom might surprise and become something decent.
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True, true...good points. It is at the beginning stages so I agree the position probably doesn’t matter quite as much at this point in time. And I’m obviously ignorant of your lesser name prospects so, good to know. But as far as Hayton, the verdict won’t be in for 2-4 years at least. Hayton probably won’t score as many goals, but I’m betting he will do literally everything else better when all is said and done.
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And now I understand why some fans were fine with taking 3 forwards with the first 4 picks. They rate our defensive prospects a helluva lot higher than I do.
Hicketts - AHL player
Hronek - 3/4 guy
Cholowski - 3/4 guy
Lindstrom - 5/6 guy
Sulak - 5/6 guy
Saarijarvi - AHL player
Now all these are guesses. Any of these players could outperform my predictions (or underperform them, I suppose). But statistically, we should expect at least some of them to never really pan out, because that's just the nature of NHL prospects.
Fingers crossed that at least a couple blue liners work their way into the top 10 for 2019.
I disagree with hayton but that’s your opinion. I think your Gm reached big time
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