GDT: St. Louis Blues 2022 Draft Thread

[mk80]

According to the Draft rankings listed for him on Elite Prospects he was ranked pretty high on some lists Arseni Koromyslov at eliteprospects.com

 

[PJJJP]

Pronman likes Koromyslov. He had him at 46

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Cool, defenseman. Hopefully they will be NHL ready in 6 years.

 

[BleedBlueForever]

Remaining picks 152 and 184

 

[mk80]

Seems to me like the risk of the current situation with Russia and getting Koromyslov over to North America is far outweighed by the reward considering he seems to be much higher ranked on a few draft lists

 

[bluesfan94]

Seems to me like the risk of the current situation with Russia and getting Koromyslov over to North America is far outweighed by the reward considering he seems to be much higher ranked on a few draft lists

He also doesn't seem like a guy that needs to come over in the next couple years. We could let him marinate a little in Russia.

 

[Robb_K]

Pronman likes Koromyslov. He had him at 46

The Russians are all falling a small but similar amount, probably due to Their government's current weird way of handling its citizens.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Like this pick. Assuming the current Russia situation isn't still at this level when he's ready, then the risk in that sense is way down.

 

[Beauterham]

Where do you find these rankings? I'm gonna put them in a spreadsheet next year that I can update.

Normally you can see them on Elite Prospects if you're a premium member. As I'm not, I just Googled it and found someone copied the first 3 rounds on a Leafs fansite.

 

[bluesfan94]

Morden just went

 

[Beauterham]

There goes Morden... Wish we could've picked him, but If we can't, I don't mind Bill Armstrong getting him.

 

[BleedBlueForever]

Morden to ARI. Oh Bill why

 

[PocketNines]

Russia is a longtime active enemy and currently full blown terrorist state, a gas can with nukes bombing shopping centers in other nations. Yeah, assuming that just goes away soon and that they stop being so "weird" then great. I mean we don't have to talk about it, but let's not write a fantasy story about temporary weirdness.

 

[bluesfan94]

Russia is a longtime active enemy and currently full blown terrorist state, a gas can with nukes bombing shopping centers in other nations. Yeah, assuming that just goes away soon and that they stop being so "weird" then great. I mean we don't have to talk about it, but let's not write a fantasy story about temporary weirdness.

To be fair, if the Ukraine war is resolved, it'll likely go back to how it has been the last few decades. There's definitely a difference currently than there was before

 

[mk80]

There goes Morden... Wish we could've picked him, but If we can't, I don't mind Bill Armstrong getting him.

Doug said he could have Morden and we wouldn't pick him, but we get Chychrun

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Doug said he could have Morden and we wouldn't pick him, but we get Chychrun

Pretty please?

 

[PocketNines]

To be fair, if the Ukraine war is resolved, it'll likely go back to how it has been the last few decades. There's definitely a difference currently than there was before

I don't agree it will likely go back to what it was before, as we are clear enemies again, but we don't have to talk about it

 

[bluesfan94]

I don't agree it will likely go back to what it was before, as we are clear enemies again, but we don't have to talk about it

I meant more in terms of NHL player movement than geopolitically, but I think predicting the state of either country in the next decade is particularly fraught right now

 

[tfriede2]

That Sparkes dude still on the board?

 

[Beauterham]

Our pick coming up again shortly.... Forward or Goalie? Not a lot of decent goalies available, but I like Silverstein or Muszelik from the NTDP.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Here’s a read on Koromyslov from @Caser, a respected Russian prospect poster on these boards.

“Koromyslov is an athletic big-framed defenseman with soft hands and long reach, also with a hard shot. Can’t call his skating speed great, but I like his edgework and impressive agility considering his size. Still needs to work in terms of filling out his frame, also I must admit that I view him as a bit too error-prone at the moment, would be important to get rid of that somehow.”

 

[mk80]

Another D-man out of the QMJHL

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Better be getting a 6'5 200 lbs+ guy or we don't want it!

 

[Beauterham]

Marc-Andre Gaudet... Don't know anything about him?

 

[m1a2lt]

HAHAHA! That picture of Plante is awesome!