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ATD2025 Draft Thread
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tinyzombies
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'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."
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Claude The Fraud
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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
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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.
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
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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
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Shore set the stage for Howe and Potvin.
Among others.
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Professor What
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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
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Totally agree with you.
The fact that he was also one of the premier offensive defenseman of his era has always amazed me.
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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.
Professor What
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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.
I think picking Gretz, Orr or Howe 1st is justifiable. Super Mario should be picked right after. Then it opens up more.
tinyzombies
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Mario’s peak is good enough to go 1. Gretzky said the same- Mario would have broken his records had he stayed healthy. This isn’t a video game where a guy is all of a sudden going to get hurt. To me it’s what he did, his peak, his pace and how good he actually was. And I don’t think anyone was ever better than Mario Lemieux. Same level for a select few, but none of them are “better”. And if you are leveling eras, they would have dealt with that back issue today in junior, and all the upgrades in tech etc. He had to play against literal criminals. These rules would be a joke for him.
Lets say that picking Mario 1st is much more justifiable than picking Sid 2nd in my opinion . I would not really go after anyone for doing that, but would consider it minor mistake.
But I admit that word "justifiable" could be a bit too strong there. But personally I don't see a reason for him to go before Grerzky.
. I would not really go after anyone for doing that, but would consider it minor mistake. But I admit that word "justifiable" could be a bit too strong there. But personally I don't see a reason for him to go before Grerzky.
