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BraveCanadian said:
Even being a Leafs fan, Stevie Wonder will always be a fav.

The guy really combined an insane level of talent with an insane level of compete and grit.



That is an insane duo.. good luck to the opposing defense
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Never heard of anyone who disliked him.
 
The Ottawa 67's are proud to select, from Montreal, Quebec, double Art-Ross trophy winner, second one to score 50 goals in a season, Howie Morenz's son-in-law and the one whom slap shot owes it's fame, Bernard 'Boom-Boom' Geoffrion.

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Claude The Fraud said:
You beat me to it, buddy!

I made that trade with HabsFan18 hoping Kharlamov would fall to #58.

Good pick!
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We win some, we lose some. Looking back, the trade likely wasn't necessary as Schmidt could have very well been there for me at 58, and you would have been guaranteed Kharlamov at 50. But I didn't want to take the chance as I didn't like the other fits with Lafleur as much. And I suppose there's a small chance someone could have traded up. I did it just to guarantee my guy. And you still got a top flight RW out of the deal and improved your position over your next two picks.

Always a gamble. That's the fun in trading. :)
 
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Habsfan18 said:
We win some, we lose some. Looking back, the trade likely wasn't necessary as Schmidt could have very well been there for me at 58, and you would have been guaranteed Kharlamov at 50. But I didn't want to take the chance as I didn't like the other fits with Lafleur as much. And I suppose there's a small chance someone could have traded up. I did it just to guarantee my guy. And you still got a top flight RW out of the deal and improved your position over your next two picks.

Always a gamble. That's the fun in trading. :)
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Exactly, that was I thought when I agreed to the trade. I figure I would still be able to get a good winger with #58 while improving my position on two pick.

In the end, loosing Kharlamov by one pick kind of comfort me, as it prove that I wasn't completly in the left field when I tought Kharlamov might fall to #58.
 
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Kharlamov's been a credible option ever since Lindsay came off-the-board. You have to go back to 2017 to find a draft where he went lower than here.

In other news, it's closing in on midnight in VanIslanderLand, so we should be prepared to settle in for a (fully understandable) wait.
 
*yawn*

It's 5am Friday.

GOOD MORNING VIE,... er... KOREA!

(Pick to come in about ten minutes.
Just gotta triple check that this guy hasn't been drafted yet.)
 
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Savannah selects center Newsy Lalonde, the most prolific scorer over the first quarter century of professional hockey. He went from top scorer of a league to top scorer of the new NHA with the Canadiens to top scorer in the new PCHA in Vancouver (they threw too much money at him to resist), to top scorer of the new NHL in 1919, becoming one of very few to ever lead the NHL in goals, assists and points in a season. He was a perennial captain, a dogged defender when without the puck, and could handle the toughest guys in a most rough and tumble era.
 
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VanIslander said:
Savannah selects center Newsy Lalonde, the most prolific scorer over the first quarter century of professional hockey. He went from top scorer of a league to top scorer of the new NHA with the Canadiens to top scorer in the new PCHA in Vancouver (they threw too much money at him to resist), to top scorer of the new NHL in 1919, becoming one of very few to ever lead the NHL in goals, assists and points in a season. He was a perennial captain, a dogged defender when without the puck, and could handle the toughest guys in a most rough and tumble era.
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Dogged defender? Do you have a source? Not trolling. Legitimately curious about this guy. Also, "could handle himself" is an understatement- he was nuts.
 
Toronto World: 24 December 1918 said:
Lalonde had his pokecheck working to perfection when back on the defense.
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from '17 NHA finals:
Ottawa Citizen: 8 March 1917 said:
*undrafted* was still off ice, Lalonde staying back on the defense. Canadiens were thus ahead by 2 to 1 at the finish of the second.
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from '19 finals:
Montreal Gazette: 31 march 1919 said:
Cleghorn was the man who scored the first Canadien goal, but it was the great Lalonde who was more responsible for the Montreal win. Urging his team on, Lalonde was not only a tower of strength on defense, but he scored the second and tying goals himself.
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Globe and Mail: 24 March 1919 said:
Newsy Lalonde gave a great exhibition of skating and scored all four of the Canadiens' goals. Lalonde was the star of both teams. The leader of the visitors was a fiend on the defense and was impossible to stop when he gained possession of the rubber.
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Montreal Gazette: 31 January 1920 said:
Throughout the 1st period, *undrafted coach* kept his extra man near the defence, and it was evident, as Lalonde also lay back on the Canadien defence, that both were playing cautious hockey.
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