Lunatik
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way to ruin the joke, party pooperMods can see where deleted posts are, and can view those posts on the boards they moderate.
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Turns out, the kid's a longtime Flames fan.
COMING FULL CIRCLE
Good story. Hope he makes it - a kid needs every bit of motivation to make the NHL.
Nice. Although it made me sad with the implication of impending Iginla retirement.Turns out, the kid's a longtime Flames fan.
COMING FULL CIRCLE
Good story. Hope he makes it - a kid needs every bit of motivation to make the NHL.
In honesty I don't expect that he'll become much but if he does, any pick that becomes a player (especially after the second round) is gravy. Plays a good rounded game and has some skill to boot and it sounds like he knows he's on the "long road" but that's just fine.
FWIW, Oliver Wahlstrom has 1 point in his first 6 games.
It’s a good start for Peterssen but he needs to keep it up.
FWIW, Oliver Wahlstrom has 1 point in his first 6 games.
It’s a good start for Peterssen but he needs to keep it up.
11 points in 6 games. If he can put up 50-60 points this season, what are his chances in the NHL, and what would his NHLe be? Usually the NCAA is a good indicator of NHL success, so I'm curious.
This wasn’t even the pick Flames could of had, but remember how this board said we were sooooo stupid trading for Hammer?
They could of had Dobson or Wahlstrom! What dummies. Sure. Yeah.
That would be the best freshmen season since Kyle Connor or Brock Boeser who put up similar #s to that. Only really Jack Eichel would be more successful than that, as he did it in his draft year.
Wahlstrom's shot is only a bit weaker than Laine's. Imagine Gaudreau-Lindholm-Wahlstrom. At the very minimum that pick should have been protected. I don't mind losing the 2019 1st round pick with how we're playing.
Imagine in 2020-2021 we have this for PP1:
Wahlstrom
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Giordano/Hanifin
Wahlstrom sniping at the left side would be deadly.
In 2020-2021 we'd either have:
Gaudreau-Lindholm-Wahlstrom
Tkachuk-Monahan-Bennett
Dube-Backlund-Neal
Mangiapane-Jankowski-Czarnik/Ryan
Giordano-Brodie/Hamonic
Hanifin-Andersson
Valimaki-????
or
Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Backlund-Neal
Bennett-Dube-Czarnik
Mangiapane-Jankowski-Ryan
Giordano-Brodie/Hamonic/Dobson
Hanifin-Andersson/Hamonic/Dobson
Valimaki-Hamonic/Dobson
I can see how amazing his shot is. 1 goal in 6 games in the NCAA
As I've grown older, I've really stopped getting to into draft hype. Every kid in the first round seems to have that 'it' factor, 'his skating is amazing, if he puts it together, wow' 'his shot is hard as hell!' 'he's a huge mobile defender!'. If you can get an NHL'er that's the right side of 30, signed for term at a good cap hit, who can be a difference maker to your top 4D or top 6F, versus a 11-20 pick at the draft... I tend to like the NHL player to be honest. Drafts are such crap shoots. You can either get a Filip Forsberg in the teens, or you can get a Sven Bartschi, there's a huge dropoff there.
Flames Pettersen > Canucks Pettersson