Any team drafting in the 10-15 range interested in this? Has a chance to back fire on the Habs but we would like a 2nd dart in the top 15.
* Jets 1st (24-27 range)
* Mesar. A late 1st in the 22 draft. Great skater with very good vision/play making. Had a very good D+2 with a good playoffs. International numbers with the Slovaks are solid. Hate to trade him but you got to give to get.
* Avs 2nd
* Young NHL depth pieces. One of Harris, Ylonen, Farrell.
Great example of putting too much stock in rankings and public mock drafts. There’s now 9-10 teams who don’t even use Central Scouting at all. Dallas, Detroit, St Louis, Edmonton, Anaheim, Tampa, Carolina, NYR, and a couple of others, have been moving to become fully in-house with scouting. Central Scouting has become more for the media and fans than the teams.
How many times in the last few years, do we see people on this site think someone was picked too high, and it turns out the player probably should’ve been drafted even higher?
It happens more today than ever before. Yet every year there’s people screaming “omg they reached” as the draft doesn’t go how public ranking said it should.
In this draft, the Canadians WILL have a completely different 11-32 than other teams. Detroit will likely have players like Ryder Ritchie ranked 15th and Canadians have him 25th. Or Montreal has Letourneau rated 15th and Detroit has him 35th.
Teams don’t just go down the public lists and pick that way. If they like Ryder Ritchie at 15th better than Eiserman, but had Connelly, Hage and Boisvert ahead of them both, but they’re off the board already, they’re taking Ritchie… and Eiserman will continue to fall. Even though the 3 teams at 12, 13 and 14 had Eiserman over Ritchie.
Look how many people mocked Detroit for taking Seider over Broberg?? Thinking somehow Yzerman was the only one who had him that high. Edmonton would’ve taken him at 8OA. Imagine that, if Detroit took Zegras or Couzens btw. Edmonton would be in a great place right now.
Anyway. There’s literally a 50% chance the player they want at 15, will be there at 24. Or at least a player they had at 16 or 17 maybe. St Louis would’ve taken Danielson at 10OA last year if Detroit took Dvorvsky at 9OA instead. Danielson was never going 17-20th overall, like we seen in most public drafts. As it stands, he looks like a steal at 9th overall.
It’s so wide open anymore, especially in a draft like this one. Where every forward has a legit concern. Some teams value certain concerns less than others, because they think they can fix those concerns.
So you draft the best you can, and then you develop your draft picks. You don’t turn around and trade Mesar 2 years later, just to trade up. You picked him because you have confidence in your development staff to develop him.