It's a possible outcome. Athanasiou probably should have been drafted a few rounds earlier, even with his warts. He is a .5 PPG NHL player over his career.
I doubt you'd get much support claiming Athanasiou "should have been drafted a few rounds earlier".
Do you know how many players bust in a draft class? If you play 300+ games in the NHL that alone would move you up 1-2 rounds in re-draft as a 4th round pick. He has decent production to go along with it too.
He probably should have. Since people dramatically under-estimate the hit rate of picks outside the top 15 or so of getting something that is above waiver fodder. But, agreed. Teams don't want fast but dumb players who tend to drive lines to their level. Kapanen was a better example of this. Exciting player, but if you put him on the 3rd line he was great, but he'd drive you legit insane when he was asked to be the 3rd wheel in the top 6 with guys like Matthews, Tavares, Nylander and Marner. Those players have use, but you generally aim higher in the top 20 to 25 or so.
A year before his draft AA was a lock to be a Top 10 pick. That’s how much he fell because of his character issues.
Right, he's switched teams a few times in kind of an odd way. His dad is rumored to be difficult, but I ahven't heard anything bad about Brad, yet he gets the "character issue" label
It could also just be the lack of production in Liiga that cools teams on him
Is that even worth mentioning? At least in my circles that's just the equivalent of 'f*** you'. Scheifele is the only player in NHL without character issues if that's what it takes.
I wonder if his dad follows him to North America? Ross is Canadian, and I think most of his family is still in North America. For example, Ross’ brother/Brad’s uncle is Lane Lambert, the new Isles head coach.
Which is why everyone is just mocking Lambert to them, even if there are way more factors that make Lambert a logical pick for said team at 13
haha, Lou letting a head coach dictate who they are drafting. Now, I've seen it all.
Showing middle finger to opposing teams's bench does seem pretty immature to me.
Lambert is not a Lou player and would probably struggle in that sort of system. But they do need more puck transporters. They should target a guy like Savoie, Nazar, or Ostlund if they're available IMO.
It's not really about need (unless NYI trade the pick for a LD who can work the breakout, which is an urgent need) at #13. But if it were, NYI have too many players who are either puck handlers *or* who score (if at all) right at the net. They need players who have a plan when they don't have the puck. I feel pretty certain Savoie + Kemmell will both be gone at 13. So it's for "need" imo Isaac Howard is the best fit. I don't think Lambert fits all that well.
Can chirping other players get you a game misconduct and a 1 game suspension?
I bet it could if all player conversations were televised live for the audiance. The only reason something as minor as a middle finger results to anything, is because everyone watching can see and some will undoubtably complain how their kids are watching
Right, and the fact that everyone watching can see it means that you would have to be bit of a dumbass to do it.
Sure it's a little bit dumb if you think about it like that, but doing something a bit dumb is off being immature and having character issues, like some here have discussed.
