GDT: The 2021 NHL Entry Draft Thread! Round 1, 8pm EST on ESPN2!

[Filppula]

Yikes. Wanna forget this day happened.

Disclaimed: I know nothing about this draft, really, but I’m still sad haha.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Well Yzerman fixed goalie finally. Nice to see. Impressive work, D looking to have the right makeup going as well. Now you hope to get lucky in 2022 and fix your forward group.

 

[Cyborg Yzerberg]

I don’t…hate it. I had Wallstedt higher than Cossa, but I don’t feel super comfortable evaluating goalies. Definitely makes me very uncomfortable.

 

[Hatter of the Beach]

Istg some of you people are acting like Cossa was ranked in the 50s

 

[Martinez]

I know nothing about scouting goalies so I can’t be too mad lol

 

[grewalwings]

We'll get our #1 C next year hopefully

 

[Run the Jewels]

That's ice cold how Yzerman played @Bench like that.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

 

[ShanahanMan]

A team that has absolutely no scoring talent picks a project D-man and a goalie in the 1st round.

Lordy....

 

[Avery Rule]

um.... ok *grabs everclear bottle and begins to chug*

 

[raymond23]

Love it

 

[rangersblues]

Bob McKenzie aced this pick

Bob knows

 

[Bench]

Not my first goalie, but I respect it. Excited to root for Cossa and Nedeljkovic. Huge off-season for this club.

 

[Ishad]

I’m okay with this

 

[ZDH]

Yzerman feeds on the tears of whiney Wings fans.

Tbf he doesn't have a history of finding elite goalies in the mid 1st rd...

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

"Sea Bass" is gonna kick ass!!

what a week. Leddy, Ned Flanders, Edvinsson & now Sea Bass.


Still wanted a C prospect with 23rd, oh well.


other GM's making bad moves

 

[ChadS]

Obviously they like Cossa > Wallstedt. Cossa ranked #15 by Bob McKenze, about #17 consensus so it's not a reach. If you think the trade is good value then it makes sense, they must have had Cossa pretty high.

On McKenzie's list, 4 out of 10 teams had Cossa > Wallstedt, but no top-10 ranks.

 

[bedtime20]

Bednar still #1 in my heart

 

[Bench]

That's ice cold how Yzerman played @Bench like that.

I thought it was a done deal for the Swede. When Yzerman said WHL my jaw dropped, haha.

But still thrilled we added a top goalie prospect. Thrilled.

 

[Shaman464]

Edvinsson and Cossa? 2 steals in the first round? Can this be true?

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

If the objective for drafting a goalie was to get a guy that will never command more than 2 million a season, we just did that.

We could have had Cossa without moving up. We were 7 f***ing picks away and the teams in that range didn't need a goalie.

 

[The Real Pastafarian]

We gave up a second rounder to move up 7 spots, because they thought Cossa might be gone in those 7 picks, with Wallstedt, Lucius, Borgault, Lysell, etc all left.

Yikes. Yikes.

 

[JustJokinenAround]

We'll get our #1 C next year hopefully

no need when you can take kevyn adams to pound town and put him in the unemployment line

 

[Shaman464]

We gave up a second rounder to move up 7 spots, because they thought Cossa might be gone in those 7 picks, with Wallstedt, Lucius, Borgault, Lysell, etc all left.

Yikes. Yikes.

I am going to bet that the Wings valued Cossa at 15 more than that 48th pick.

 

[cjm502]

All I wanted was a prospect with #1C potential... Maybe next year? (For probably the 5th year in a row)

 

[deca guard]