ATD2025 Draft Thread

[Boreal01]

With the 5th overall pick, HC Lugano is proud to select Doug Harvey, D

 

[Hitru]

Now I'm starting to regret that pick swap

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'll be back around 17h00 to update OP and make my pick.

 

[Professor What]

Now I'm starting to regret that pick swap

Eh. It is what it is. No way we could have predicted this.

 

[Habsfan18]

Eh. It is what it is. No way we could have predicted this.

BB is in-division too. So you's potentially handed him one of the big-4 at pick 6. That's always the risk with pick swaps lol Oh well, like you said I don't think anyone saw this coming. It's the way she goes sometimes.

 

[jigglysquishy]

I can't believe undrafted is going to fall to 6.

 

[Dr Pepper]

I can't believe undrafted is going to fall to 6.

Would be pretty funny to dive through past ATDs and see if this is the lowest he's ever gone......if, indeed, he DOES get picked at 6.

 

[Professor What]

Would be pretty funny to dive through past ATDs and see if this is the lowest he's ever gone......if, indeed, he DOES get picked at 6.

Went 8th once.

 

[Professor What]

BB is in-division too. So you's potentially handed him one of the big-4 at pick 6. That's always the risk with pick swaps lol Oh well, like you said I don't think anyone saw this coming. It's the way she goes sometimes.

Well, LL is division too, so it just shifted teams in the division. Net zero sum, I'd think.

 

[tinyzombies]

I don't know what's wilder, Sid at the 2-spot or needing time to think about the next pick. This is also a team building game tho.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Wow, didn't check who was picked before coming back.

Wasn't my original plan, but I'm thrilled to build around this player for the first time in the 15 years I've been doing this, Mario Lemieux, C.

 

[Habsfan18]

Wow, didn't check who was picked before coming back.

Wasn't my original plan, but I'm thrilled to build around this player for the first time in the 15 years I've been doing this, Mario Lemieux, C.
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[Professor What]

I don't know what's wilder, Sid at the 2-spot or needing time to think about the next pick. This is also a team building game tho.

Hitru and I are wondering if this is the oddest beginning to an ATD yet.

 

[BenchBrawl]

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lol Wouldn't have bet $1 on this happening. But it's not the first time. He went 8th in 2015, I think.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

lol Wouldn't have bet $1 on this happening. But it's not the first time. He went 8th in 2015, I think.

For a second there I was getting worried that my “record” of drafting Lemieux at 8 would be broken, but then I checked the draft order and knew I was safe when I saw your name at 6.

 

[tabness]

send me offers for the 8 spot if you interested

 

[BenchBrawl]

For a second there I was getting worried that my “record” of drafting Lemieux at 8 would be broken, but then I checked the draft order and knew I was safe when I saw your name at 6.

Yeah, especially since I never had him before. I really wanted to build around a "new" player this year, and had a plan for someone like that at 6th. I guess that player will have to wait another year.

Your record is safe.

 

[tinyzombies]

For a second there I was getting worried that my “record” of drafting Lemieux at 8 would be broken, but then I checked the draft order and knew I was safe when I saw your name at 6.

I know this is more a relative career yardstick, but I was daydreaming the other day. If this was a real thing, Mario is possibly my first pick overall. He could dominate any era. Original 6 too tough for him? He's 6-4, 230 - I don't think so. New era too fast and skilled? ---> no clutch and grab, ridiculous reach, release, vision, cannot move from net, blazing top speed with one stride- I saw it firsthand sitting on the glass back in tha day. Again, I don't think so. And all the rest: he'd have taken care of that back earlier, better nutrition, tech, etc.

 

[GKJ]

I’m going to make right one of the wrongs of hockey history in Philadelphia, and finally bring Ray Bourque to town

@tabness

 

[VanIslander]

Let's at least respect each other.

 

[GKJ]

Yo, please don’t make me moderate here

 

[nabby12]

Don't bully people for their picks repeatedly. Pretty simple.

You've cried about the Crosby pick all day now. **** off already.

 

[VanIslander]

You've cried about the Crosby pick all day now. **** off already.

Ok. That is legit, somewhat respectful criticism.

Attack the problem, not the person.

I should have made one - not two -objections to the pick. Repeating the same complaint with no extra point is ... is just pushing a point, kinda bullying. We don't wanna do that.

Let's... move on.

 

[tabness]

Trying to move this along from the drama, I'll pick Denis Potvin, D

 

[tinyzombies]

Trying to move this along from the drama, I'll pick Denis Potvin, D

ahhhhhhhgggghghghghghg. (cry)