Roster Building Thread - Part II: Entry Draft Edition

[BBKers]

2.788 posts in the first off-season thread completed in a mere 9 days.
Talk about empathetic hopes & dreams… or not?
Here’s a new one to start off the entry draft tomorrow.
Cheers!

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[Circus86]

Drafts without a first rounder...

 

[Machinehead]

I hate the salary cap

 

[FultonReed]

Drafts without a first rounder...

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did you miss those, was it, 4 years? where we didn't have one?

 

[pld459666]

I enjoyed the "History of the World Part I" vibes that other thread had

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

Drafts without a first rounder...

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The 2018 first round was something. Fun times.

Kinda fun to see where our scouting department has headed in the past year. Now that Gordie is gone and Drury has settled down im interested to see what type of prospects they value.

 

[Fitzy]

Still very important to try to find at least one good player in drafts with scarce picks.

In those four straight years, the first two drafts we got a good player in the mid rounds (Buchnevich, Shesterkin) and then in the next two we found only disappointments, although we didn't know Saarela wouldn't be an NHL player until after he was dealt.

 

[duhmetreE]

I really do not want the Devils to keep their pick. I do not want them to have Slafkovsky.

 

[I Eat Crow]

I really do not want the Devils to keep their pick. I do not want them to have Slafkovsky.

Montreal may take Slavkovsky. Lots of smoke that Wright isn't a foregone conclusion to go #1

 

[haveandare]

Any chance we trade into the end of the first? Lambert is set to drop and our scouts have done really well with late firsts

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Montreal may take Slavkovsky. Lots of smoke that Wright isn't a foregone conclusion to go #1

I'll be surprised if they do.

 

[duhmetreE]

Montreal may take Slavkovsky. Lots of smoke that Wright isn't a foregone conclusion to go #1

I do not want the Devils to keep their pick. I do not want them to have Shane Wright

 

[I Eat Crow]

I do not want the Devils to keep their pick. I do not want them to have Shane Wright

Wright doesn't worry me. 2nd line center at the NHL level, IMO.

Where is the playing time for Hughes, Hischier, and Wright? I can see the Devils trading the pick or trading down as well. One of the Czech RHD's screams Devils player to me.

 

[Thirty One]

Wright doesn't worry me. 2nd line center at the NHL level, IMO.

Where is the playing time for Hughes, Hischier, and Wright? I can see the Devils trading the pick or trading down as well. One of the Czech RHD's screams Devils player to me.

One Czech RHD and one Slovak RHD. Please respect the Velvet Divorce.

 

[I Eat Crow]

One Czech RHD and one Slovak RHD. Please respect the Velvet Divorce.

I got my former communist central European territories mixed up. Apologies.

Next thing you're going to tell me is that Slavkovsky is not Serbian...

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I really do not want the Devils to keep their pick. I do not want them to have Slafkovsky.

I don't want them to have DeBrincat. What are the odds Slakoffsky becomes as good?

 

[DanielBrassard]

I just hope we see some fireworks at the draft. draft day never ever lives up to the pre-draft hype and it's sucks.

 

[LaffyTaffy]

GMs meeting from 1-4 today. Maybe see something tonight?

 

[GAGLine]

Any chance we trade into the end of the first? Lambert is set to drop and our scouts have done really well with late firsts

Doubtful. We don't have the picks to trade up from the late 2nd round, there's little point in trading prospects for picks, and any players we might trade off the roster are more likely to return players than picks.

 

[JimmyG89]

Panarin cannot go back to Russia under any circumstance. He will be detained immediately.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Panarin cannot go back to Russia under any circumstance. He will be detained immediately.

I mean, what happens if a player like Kravtsov is kidnapped in the dead of night and forced back to Russia? Does his contract come off the books? The NHL needs a plan on how they're going to to deal with this possibility, especially if higher profile players with larger cap hits are involved.

 

[Machinehead]

I mean, what happens if a player like Kravtsov is kidnapped in the dead of night and forced back to Russia? Does his contract come off the books? The NHL needs a plan on how they're going to to deal with this possibility, especially if higher profile players with larger cap hits are involved.

They'll wait until it happens and then slowly react like they do with everything else.

 

[duhmetreE]

I mean, what happens if a player like Kravtsov is kidnapped in the dead of night and forced back to Russia? Does his contract come off the books? The NHL needs a plan on how they're going to to deal with this possibility, especially if higher profile players with larger cap hits are involved.

@EdJovanovski reacting

 

[Thirty One]

I don't want them to have DeBrincat. What are the odds Slakoffsky becomes as good?

Not great. But pretty good odds he'll be a good player for for years on a reasonable cap hit. Those years are gone for DeBrincat.

 

[EdJovanovski]

This is such a weird tweet, what does it have to do with the draft hahaha