ATD2025 Draft Thread

[tabness]

ahhhhhhhgggghghghghghg. (cry)

do you still need a pm lol

 

[tinyzombies]

do you still need a pm lol

'See- it's all better now, right?' Right, Nick. I'm ok now, thank you.

"When appearing on the Spittin’ Chiclets podcast, Crosby was asked who, out of every legend he’s played, is the best defenseman, and he didn’t hesitate for one second.

”Nicklas Lidstrom, without a doubt,” said Crosby."

 

[Claude The Fraud]

The Ottawa 67's are proud to select, from Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, one the baddest and best player of his era, the guy who's synonym of Old-time hockey, Eddie Shore.

 

[VanIslander]

I contemplated trading draft position to get him at the tail end of the top 10.

He single-handedly decided a lot of games. There is so much ink on SPECIFIC game after game in the newspaper archives. It is staggering.

 

[Claude The Fraud]

I contemplated trading draft position to get him at the tail end of the top 10.

He single-handedly decided a lot of games. There is so much ink on SPECIFIC game after game in the newspaper archives. It is staggering.

Tail end of the 10's for Shore?

I guess I'm reaching here!

More seriously, best defenseman left, imo, Pretty complete and mean player. The kind of player I want to build my roster around.

 

[VanIslander]

...Pretty complete and mean player. The kind of player I want to build my roster around.

Shore set the stage for Howe and Potvin.
Among others.

 

[Professor What]

More seriously, best defenseman left, imo, Pretty complete and mean player. The kind of player I want to build my roster around.

I get why Potvin might go before Shore from a team building perspective, but if we're just ranking defensemen, I'd have Shore relatively easily over Potvin, and quite possibly over Lidstrom too. (Although my opinion on that last one goes back and forth.)

 

[Claude The Fraud]

Shore set the stage for Howe and Potvin.
Among others.

Totally agree with you.

The fact that he was also one of the premier offensive defenseman of his era has always amazed me.

 

[VanIslander]

Tough as nails always:

 

[BenchBrawl]

Unexpected run of D's

 

[BraveCanadian]

Leafs draft Sid the Kid Crosby C

 

[VanIslander]

And yet all 6 D's have reason to be top-10 picks!

 

[BenchBrawl]

I just realized this is the lowest Wayne Gretzky ever went at 4th. He had never been picked outside the Top 3 in ATD history.

 

[Hitru]

Not often can you say you got a steal with 4th pick in ATD

 

[Professor What]

I'm not criticizing the Howe pick. It makes sense. But in one sense, this draft went odd from that moment. This is only the 5th time that Orr didn't go first. There are a lot of oddities with this draft so far.

 

[Hitru]

I think picking Gretz, Orr or Howe 1st is justifiable. Super Mario should be picked right after. Then it opens up more.