We should take this to parliment
Don't agree with you concerning Niskanen.
This guy is the PPQB for Dallas, in the future.
At the 28th spot, he will turn out to be a steal.
This guy concentrate on hockey as his unique sport for the first time of his life.
Before he was a multi-sport athlete in High school.
If you have followed him at Minnesota-Duluth, he has not only superb stats, for a soph. (39g. - 31 pts as a def.), but he's a gifted athlete and a powerful skater. He played a lot for MDU in all situation.
So don't agree, I keep him at the 28th. spot.
There's not a lot of love for Ryan in this thread. I'm telling you guys, he could easily be the 2nd best player out of this draft. Being a power forward means he takes time to develop, but after watching him his entire junior career, he simply dominates every game (except when London comes to town, but that's London). His physical presence is immense (while a team like London had a weak defense this season, during the playoffs he turned them into his puppets). He has tremendous hands (like a big dangler), great scoring ability, and hockey sense out the ying yang. His skating his certainly sub-par, but his top speed is NHL calibre and he's extremely hard to knock off the puck.
Sure, there's a lot you can say about many of the prospects, and its simply my opinion, but Ryan is the complete package and will be a quality 1st line player in his NHL prime.
hahahhahah, also another typical Pens fan........Anton Stralman should be in top 5 picks.....
11 B Ryan
12 Bourdon
13 K Letang
14 B Pouliot
15 Latendresse
REDO 1st-2nd Round (May 1st, 2007) :
12 Bourdon
13 K Letang
14 B Pouliot
15 Latendresse
My top 50
42. Pavelec
43. Russel
43. Letang
44. JD Watt
ROUND 1
27)21 Tuukka Rask (G)
28)33 James Neal (LW)
29)62 Kristopher Letang (D)
30)41 Ondrej Pavelec (G)
Here's my top 30:
17. Steve Downie
18. Cody Franson
19. Andrew Cogliano
20. Kris Letang
21. Ryan Parent
22. Martin Hanzal
My 2 Cents
10 - Bobby Ryan
11 - Marc Staal
12 - Kris Letang
13 - Benoit Pouliot
14 - Luc Bourdon
15 - Paul Stasny
well if it helps, i would take Letang way more then Lee on my team
my list:
14.Gilbert Brulé( really really not convinved with that huge potential he once had)
15.Nicklas Bergford
16.Kris Letang
17.T.J Oshie
18.Martin Hanzal( if he only worked a little more...)
19.Ryan O'marra
1st round
21 Toronto Tuukka Rask G Ilves Tampere (FNL)
22 Boston Matt Lashoff D Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
23 New Jersey Jack Skille R U.S. Junior National Team (Intl)
24 St. Louis Kris Letang
25 Edmonton Andrew Cogliano C St. Michael's Buzzers (OPJHL)
26 Calgary Marc-Edouard Vlasic Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
6.CLB Paul Stastny (44)
7.CHI Andrew Cogliano (25)
8.SJ Guillaume Latendresse (45)
9.OTT Luc Bourdon (10)
10.VAN Marc Staal (12)
11.LA Gilbert Brule (6)
12.NYR Marc-Edouard Vlasic (35)
13.BUF Niklas Bergfors (23)
14.WAS Kristopher Letang (62)
15.NYI Bobby Ryan (2) (Biggest Drop of the First Round)
16.ATL Benoit Pouliot (4)
Which players would you move UP? Which players would you move DOWN?
Here is the entire 1st and 2nd round (no changes have been made):
60 Los Angeles T.J. Fast D
61 Pittsburgh Michael Gergen W
62 Pittsburgh Kristopher Letang (UP to First Round)
Rask needs to move out of the first round because I can't cope with him moving up as a Leafs fan. JFJ does something right in drafting Rask then trades him, *sigh*.
Letang ought to be moved into the top 2 rounds. First round, actually.
hahahhahah, also another typical Pens fan........Anton Stralman should be in top 5 picks.....
Ignorance has forced you to boot Michael Sauer out I see.
1. Sidney Crosby
2. Anze Kopitar
3. Jack Johnson
4. Carey Price
5. Kris Letang
6.Marc Staal
7. M.E Vlasic
8. Niklas Bergfors
9. Gilbert Brule
10. Luc Bourdon
11. Steve Downie
12. Guillaume Latendresse
13. Bobby Ryan
14. Peter Kalus
15. Jakub Kindl
16. Ondrej Pavelec (could be the steal of the draft)
17.Benoit Pouliot
18.Ryan Parent
19. Tuuka Rask
20. T.J Oshie
21.Matt Lashoff
22. Jack Skille
23.Andrew Cogliano
24.Marek Zagrapan
25.Brian Lee
26. Michael Blunden
27. Ryan O'Marra
28. Devin Setoguchi..not sure about him yet but would definately not select him again at 8.
29 Dan Bertram
30 .Martin Hanzal
Definately a strong draft
This is the REAL list of how the 1st would go if you did it today:
1 Sidney Crosby C
2 Anze Kopitar C
3 Carey Price G
4 Bobby Ryan R
5 Paul Stastny C
6 Jack Johnson D
7 T.J. Oshie C
8 Marc Staal D
9 Devin Setoguchi R
10 Tuukka Rask G
11 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D
12 Ondrej Pavelec G
13 Kristopher Letang
14 James Neal L
15 Andrew Cogliano C
16 Matt Niskanen D
17 Martin Hanzal C
18 Gilbert Brule C
19 Benoit Pouliot L
20 Guillaume Latendresse R
21 Jack Skille R
22 Brian Lee D
23 Mason Raymond W
24 Jakub Kindl D
25 Ryan Parent D
26 Matt Lashoff D
27 Marek Zagrapan C
28 Kendall McArdle L
29 Nicklas Bergfors W
30 Vladimir Mihalik D