Habs4ever
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Will there be very good player available at 10th position next year draft or is the draft strong for first few picks and weak after that??
Habs4ever said:Will there be very good player available at 10th position next year draft or is the draft strong for first few picks and weak after that??
Habs4ever said:Will there be very good player available at 10th position next year draft or is the draft strong for first few picks and weak after that??
forbesy said:considering the 2003 draft was only the 3rd draft of the decade....that's not a hard claim
and I think that there was a lot more to the 2001 then someone said, I mean Chistov was arguably said to be more talented then Kovalchuk...
JNRhockeyGURU said:where the hell did you read that? that is rediculous, no one would claim that, before the draft or now! Get over Chistov, he is not that good and never will be, 2nd liner at best! PSHH leave it up to a hockey fan form california to make that claim (even though cali hockey suprisingly has been putting out a few players like Sterling and Earl) but i guess it hasn't fully caught on yet haha
JNRhockeyGURU said:where the hell did you read that? that is rediculous, no one would claim that, before the draft or now! Get over Chistov, he is not that good and never will be, 2nd liner at best! PSHH leave it up to a hockey fan form california to make that claim (even though cali hockey suprisingly has been putting out a few players like Sterling and Earl) but i guess it hasn't fully caught on yet haha
Brock said:One off the top of my head would be Kyle Woodlief from Redline.
JNRhockeyGURU said:where the hell did you read that? that is rediculous, no one would claim that, before the draft or now! Get over Chistov, he is not that good and never will be, 2nd liner at best! PSHH leave it up to a hockey fan form california to make that claim (even though cali hockey suprisingly has been putting out a few players like Sterling and Earl) but i guess it hasn't fully caught on yet haha
Hitman said:Oh wow. Thanks to you, I can now dismiss anything somebody from New York says about hockey. For a guy who claims to be a Junior hockey guru, you know dick squat about this guy.
He was considered the most talented European in the draft. He had amazing speed, vision and great hands. but he was small. Kovalchuck was considered such a homerun because of his combination of size, speed etc. which he could use to be a dominating NHLer.
JNRhockeyGURU said:that is exactly why Woodlief shouldnt even be allowed to watch the sport anymore. Claiming Chistov is more talented than Kovalchuk and leaving Schremp off the top 10...that right there is enough for everyone to cancle their redline subscriptions...but im not going to rant about that guy anymore!
JNRhockeyGURU said:that is exactly why Woodlief shouldnt even be allowed to watch the sport anymore. Claiming Chistov is more talented than Kovalchuk and leaving Schremp off the top 10...that right there is enough for everyone to cancle their redline subscriptions...but im not going to rant about that guy anymore!
I heard it too. I think it was THN that said Chistov had as much (if not more) NATURAL ability as Kovalchuk, but because of size differential went a bit later. IMO Chistov should have gone 3rd in 2001 ahead of Svitov and Weiss.JNRhockeyGURU said:where the hell did you read that? that is rediculous, no one would claim that, before the draft or now! Get over Chistov, he is not that good and never will be, 2nd liner at best! PSHH leave it up to a hockey fan form california to make that claim (even though cali hockey suprisingly has been putting out a few players like Sterling and Earl) but i guess it hasn't fully caught on yet haha
JasonMacIsaac said:Really??????
I can see the following becoming stars in the NHL from the 03 draft.
Staal, Fleury, Horton, Zherdev, Sutter, Parise, S Bernier, Brown, Nillson, Perry, Belle
and I think that there was a lot more to the 2001 then someone said, I mean Chistov was arguably said to be more talented then Kovalchuk...
JNRhockeyGURU said:yeah and look how rediculous those claims turned out to be! Chistov was invisible for most of the game against the islanders yesterday, wherever his talent is, he must have left it in Europe before coming over! Maybe him and some of the other euro's in the NHL should go back and try and find their talent where they left it
JNRhockeyGURU said:exactly! 03 draft was incredible! it has to be for a player like Patrick O'Sullivan to fall the way he did (i dont care how many off ice thigns happened, he was not a late 2nd rounder) and in any other draft he would have been mid 1st!
JasonMacIsaac said:I almost puked after reading this redline report in 2001
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/columns/kyle/2001-06-15.htm
Man they suck lol
Good point. His goal on Pascal Leclaire was the turning point to their Gold medal win against Canada in 2001. Before that, it was all Canada until he brought the Russians back in it.Hitman said:Well, not all scouts can see into the future. But you have the real gift, 20/20 hindsight. I take it you didn't see him in the WJCs, or ever I imagine before he was drafted.
Hitman said:Could it have been his poor WJCs? Him walking out on the IceDogs at the beginning of last season when they were doing good.
Attitude and psycological issues have a lot to do when drafting players. he might have been a mid-round 1st in the 2002 draft just because it was so weak, but he'd probably go in the 2nd in the others as well.
JNRhockeyGURU said:he walked on the icedogs? are you sure? i know he was sent home for stealing sticks in december...are you sure? NOTHIGN WILL EVER TOP HIS FATHER FORGING HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO PLAY IN 14 FESTIVAL haha thats a classic!
DR. Holiday said:Ladies and gentlemen place your bets: Is JNRhockeyGURU a brother or sister of robbie, A cousin , an aunt or uncle, close family friend, Robbie's mom or dad or finally a paid shill for the family.
JNRhockeyGURU said:i don't even know him, ill stop talkin about him from now on after this post, but i just want to know if all of you really feel this strongly against him for good reason or are you just tyring to have your opinion be "different" just to be heard? It's really sick how tuff you have all been on him since he was 13...really disgusting.