NHL Draft lottery race - Bruins currently have 4th Pick

[ODAAT]

Don't need a 200-foot 2nd line center. Have too many middle 6 centers on this team.

Needs are, in order, IMO: a high-point producing #1 center, a couple of top 6 wingers, and a high-end dman. We need to get one of these in this draft. We can get one of the wingers in the free-agent market.

yep, 1/2 C a must for me first

 

[BradMarchandismydad]

@DominicT Thoughts on Schaefer? Think he’s probably going first or second but we have a chance to land that pick.

His highlights are nuts

 

[DaBroons]

In true Bruins fashion they were also on video saying “we want the Swede” right before Washington picked him.

IIRC, it was the Caps' GM who said it, after Boston came over to talk to him about trading up one. He said to his scouts, "They want the Swede." Of course, the Caps wanted the Swede as well to be Ovie's center, and it worked out great for them.

 

[chizzler]

@DominicT Thoughts on Schaefer? Think he’s probably going first or second but we have a chance to land that pick.

His highlights are nuts

You have no shot unless you get the 1st overall.

 

[AngryMilkcrates]

Frondell with Lysell?
Can Sweeney tell?
I bet Dom knows well.

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[VTBruin37]

You have no shot unless you get the 1st overall.

Yeah I'd bet my house Schaefer goes 1OA over Misa. Misa 2OA.

 

[Alan Ryan]

Looking at centers drafted since 2010 between 5 and 7 to set my expectations.

Ryan Strome
Mika Zibanejad
Mark Scheifele
Elias Lindholm
Sean Monahan
Pavel Zacha
Elias Pettersson
Barrett Hayton
Alex Turcotte
Dylan Cozens
Kent Johnson

Seems like the average is another Zacha or Lindholm.

Drafting another Zacha or Lindholm level center would be a very good outcome.

 

[ranold26]

Hagens here we come!

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Always have to remember it is a lottery. Bruins could be 12

 

[BlackFrancis]

Martone and Misa both nominated for OHL player of the year.

I get a vote. Care to guess who I'm voting for?

if it isn't the injured kid or the one taking the gas pipe in the playoffs so far, you'll throw posters here for a loop.

 

[VTBruin37]

Always have to remember it is a lottery. Bruins could be 12

Which seems crazy considering they could've made the playoffs and still drafted 14th

 

[Bruin4]

Always have to remember it is a lottery. Bruins could be 12

You can only drop 2 spots

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

You can only drop 2 spots

That is not what I read by the draft app. But I stand corrected. You can only drop two spots.

 

[Olden McGroin]

Kraken with a win tonite will put the Bruins in the 4th spot

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Which seems crazy considering they could've made the playoffs and still drafted 14th

How could they draft 14th? 16 teams don't make the PO right?

 

[KillerMillerTime]

yep, 1/2 C a must for me first

I watched the 2024 U 18 Finals between US - Canada. Hagens centered Eiserman on US top line, while Desnoyers was centering McKenna\Martone. Desnoyers played well and showed a 200 foot game with some physicality while Hagens showed good speed and puck handling ability but zero physicalty which I don't like.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

I watched the 2024 U 18 Finals between US - Canada. Hagens centered Eiserman on US top line, while Desnoyers was centering McKenna\Martone. Desnoyers played well and showed a 200 foot game with some physicality while Hagens showed good speed and puck handling ability but zero physicalty which I don't like.

Sure but archetype wise (not saying he’s as good or will ever be as good) Hagens is Jack Hughes. Everyone doesn’t have to be physical, especially if they are super elite skaters and playmakers. Nick Backstrom was never physical. This team is bereft of high end skill and speed. It would do the Bruins well to focus on that type of player.

 

[Bruin4]

Kraken with a win tonite will put the Bruins in the 4th spot

Dam 1030 start time. Might hang on for a period. lol

 

[McPasta8873]

Kraken with a win tonite will put the Bruins in the 4th spot

No petterson or chytil aswell, bruins might be getting all the luck to end the year. Just need Nashville to get hot and we got ourselves hagens or misa

 

[Bruin4]

NYR win tonight, keeping the heat on the Habs, just in case they were thinking about taking tomorrow night off

 

[Boston Bandit]

You can only drop 2 spots

This is true, but Sweeney likes to think he's smarter than the room and could reach for the 12th ranked player, lol

 

[CDJ]

To think only a couple weeks ago we only thought we had a realistic chance at 7 or 8

Exceptional tank job. Genuinely well done

 

[Boston Bandit]

Kraken with a win tonite will put the Bruins in the 4th spot

 

[DKH]

You can only hope he has learned from his “smartest guy in the room” tendencies in the past and just goes with slam dunk consensus this time. Though if he does go off board again, it will be fun to see the frequent posters here defend the pick to the death and say we don’t know what we are talking about until it becomes clear a few years later it was a mistake and then they quietly stop defending the pick.

Like who ?

 

[22Brad Park]

I had a nightmare last night. I was watching the draft and the Sweenius was at the podium 'With the third overall pick, the Boston Bruins are proud to select Zachary Hamill-Senyshyn Jr.' I woke up screaming.

haha that's funny