If you count first rounders, it's gonna be skewed towards teams constantly picking at the top of the draft. Wow, Edmonton sure nailed their first rounders when they picked in the top ten off a decade straight!
Confirmed with Link: Marat Khusnutdinov and Jakub Lauko traded to BOS for Justin Brazeau
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BagHead
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We could solve this issue by providing a weighting to ranges of draft picks. It isn't necessary to remove them entirely when simply discounting them by some percentage weighting would tell a more complete and accurate tale. I don't currently care enough to do this myself, but if you guys really want to find out how good the Wild are at drafting vs. other teams, that'd be the way to go about it.
Maybe something like giving rounds 3-7 full weight (x1), while discounting the 1st and 2nd round to some degree. Something like 1-3 overall at x0.25, 4-10 at 0.35, 11-17 at 0.50, 18-32 at 0.7, and 2nd rounders at 0.85 (these are just wild guesses at weightings to make it clear what I mean, they are not the numbers that should actually be used).
Nino Noderreiter
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So we get this new plug and we are going to attempt to tailor a role for him based on his limited skill set instead of trying to force his round peg into square hole like we do with every other player????
Make very little sense.
Make very little sense.
For sure but you can still find top talent who exceed their draft position. Sometimes it's luck when say Boldy falls into our lap but sometimes you make a great pick like Burns or Brodin.
Spurgeon
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I do wonder if Khus was pissy about being sent down and that ticked Guerin off. Seems odd to me to send him down to the AHL and tell the media it was purely for cap reasons before trading him away.
I still owe GuerinUp $20 for a bet we made about something regarding the Wild defense, but he hasn't posted for nearly 3 years now.
I'll set a reminder for April 2027. Hopefully we're still both around.
I still owe GuerinUp $20 for a bet we made about something regarding the Wild defense, but he hasn't posted for nearly 3 years now.
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This does seem to happen, Talbot got moved pretty fast but that worked out good. We signed Greenway and traded him not that long aafter. Probably another one I am forgetting.
Nino Noderreiter
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TaLoN
Red 5 standing by
Addison was just terrible at hockey
McBain didn't want to play here because he thought there was too many players in his way at center
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21-22 when McBain turned pro.
Hartman:65p
JEE:49p
Freddy G:44p
Dewar-in his first NHL season
Sturm/Jost-forget the exact timing of the trades.
Rossi-in Iowa
At best he would have been 6th on the center depth chart at the time. Don't forget there was a coach who hated young players (according to some posters).
To me it seems pretty smart to get NHL paychecks (~$900k/yr) instead of getting AHL paychecks (~$90k/yr).
To some extent Fiala got moved quickly as well. Mennell pissed off Guerin. Nesternko was a senior and didn't want to sign. Lindberg as well.
