GDT: Draft Day 2019

[Michoulicious]

Beautiful looking draft for the Canes.

Kochetkov, Rees, Puistola, Honka, Nikolahev...

Lots of high-risk, high-reward players with those 2nds/3rds. Really like the picks.

To me, you guys clearly win the Day #2 of the draft, especially if we consider the 1st in 2020 for basically 4,25 millions in real money.

 

[FreshSeabass]

 

[Cane mutiny]

Aves just took my late goalie pick Trent Miner

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Canes, one chance now to draft a Swede.

If you don't have anyone, draft me.

 

[HisIceness]

I have done no research but if you guys are happy with this draft so am I.

 

[Brock Anton]

Twitter is not her specialty.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Twitter is not her specialty.

That's what I'm saying. It always leaves something to be desired

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Last pick for Canes coming up at 216.

 

[MinJaBen]

Massimo Rizzo

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Waddell and Dundon may love collecting prospects more than Francis did.

 

[MinJaBen]

Waddell and Dundon may love collecting prospects more than Francis did.

And Finnish ones, to boot.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

No Swede this year makes Lucky Lindy sad.

 

[Cane mutiny]

Massimo Rizzo

love that name. midnight cowboy-ish.

 

[Roboturner913]

I have done no research but if you guys are happy with this draft so am I.

Ditto. My liking this draft is based more on liking the philosophy of buying as many lottery tickets as they could to increase their chances of getting x number of good players.

I don't know Ryan Suzuki from Kristi Yamaguchi, but if we go "chalk" and get as many players as possible, we maximize our chances of getting good ones.

Success rate of 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks ("success" defined by appearing in 100+ NHL games) is almost 30 percent on average. So if that metric holds true then we are "assured" of getting 2 good players at least.

 

[Roboturner913]

I hope that guy makes it so we can say R to the izzo when he scores. also

 

[DaveG]

Pretty happy with this draft. Knight wasn't falling to us but BGA at the start of the second is always a good thing. Added a TON of skill overall, drafted about half the nation of Finland, no complaints. Looking forward to seeing some of these guys in camp this coming week.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Oh god, Waddell’s going to make a move to replace Faulk without actually moving Faulk. It’s Hamilton all over again.

I predict in the near future we’ll have nothing but defensemen on the roster, all brought on to replace Faulk. Meanwhile, Faulk’s pushing 40, missed 70 games the previous season due to various injuries, and Waddell is still “99% sure” we can find a taker for him.

 

[A Star is Burns]

And if we keep winning by that point and making more smart moves than not, nobody will care

 

[Lempo]

It was a good day.

 

[Roboturner913]

Did we really just get 12 players in one draft?

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Did we really just get 12 players in one draft?

I think if we had left this draft with only Suzuki, Rees, Puistola, the Russian goalie and Toronto’s 2020 1st round pick, most would think it’s a smashing success.

But yeah, I agree, 12 players is incredible.

 

[Svechhammer]

Oh god, Waddell’s going to make a move to replace Faulk without actually moving Faulk. It’s Hamilton all over again.

I predict in the near future we’ll have nothing but defensemen on the roster, all brought on to replace Faulk. Meanwhile, Faulk’s pushing 40, missed 70 games the previous season due to various injuries, and Waddell is still “99% sure” we can find a taker for him.

If we do this, it could/should be the impetus for yet another deal because if we are already backfilling Faulk, what do you do with guys like Fleury, Bean, and McKeown?

And... And I mean let's be serious. We know Faulk. We know him well enough to know defensively he'll be a pylon out there the likes that even Slavin and Pesce struggled to cover up for. And it's not like Washington is stacked with defense. If we move forward with that, I could see it actually weakening the Caps while creating more opportunity for us. Can't hate that.

 

[hurricure]

We nabbed a couple bchl prospects and a dman headed that way... Massimo is a fun to watch and is magic with the puck

 

[hurricure]

Looks like I get to be pretend scout

 

[Wolfpuck]

Looks like I get to be pretend scout

Cheapass Dundon will pay you in Blockbuster coupons.