[Game Thread] 2024 CHL vs NTDP - Game 1
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Kingpin794
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"Hey let's do a prospects game. USA vs Canada."
"Great Idea. should we open it up to the entire american pool?"
"No. The NTDP will be just fine."
"But what if the NTDP has a weak class?"
"A what?"
"Great Idea. should we open it up to the entire american pool?"
"No. The NTDP will be just fine."
"But what if the NTDP has a weak class?"
"A what?"
TLEH
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Mathieukferland
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Michanko
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he screams all situations franchise number 1 d man
This certainly isn’t perfect exercise with the CHL team having access to the top late birthdays and the US only sending the 07s but it’s been fun. Would be a really good game if this was a better birth year for the program
Problem is there’s no way you can pull guys like Hagens and Hensler from their collegiate teams to play in this
Kingpin794
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Imagine if we'd had like, Bedard and Benson vs Smith and Leonard in 2023. That would have been extremely fun.
I mean they ended up bringing Lansing and Kevan because they’re short on bodies. Generally speaking adding the ushl to the pool doesn’t change a ton. It’s the late birthdays that make the difference
Team_Spirit
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I think at this point Schaefer going #1 would no longer be looked at as “well they need a defenseman” pick. It would just be..yeah…he can be our Drew Doughty cornerstone for the next 15 years…
He’s got everything you want. Skill set alone he should be in the #1 convo. And it’s not just the end to end rushes, it’s putting it all out there on an PK without a stick/glove and blocking a shot. And the best part is, his maturity and leadership is probably even better.
We might need to start having the “is Matt Schaefer the best (on draft day) blueline prospect since…”
He’s got everything you want. Skill set alone he should be in the #1 convo. And it’s not just the end to end rushes, it’s putting it all out there on an PK without a stick/glove and blocking a shot. And the best part is, his maturity and leadership is probably even better.
We might need to start having the “is Matt Schaefer the best (on draft day) blueline prospect since…”
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Juxtaposer
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He might have, but the NTDP at least had a lot of high end talent that year that could have made it a fair game. This year's NTDP is just depressing.
TLEH
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WhatTheDuck
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Schaefer obviously looks on another level but I really like this CHL D group overall. There's some forwards popping as well but it seems like the D are really controlling the game for the Canadian side
It’s just a great CHL group period. The CHL leagues are going to dominate this first two rounds of this draft, with a strong Swedish class mixed in.
lot of scouts think and myself included believe this extremely weak ntdp group but Button and other lazy scouts will assume 2-3 first rounders - bunch of second rounders with really no logic
