GDT: The 2023 NHL Entry Draft - Nashville, TN - 4:00pm (AZ) - ESPN, ESPN+

[Alberta Yote]

Button's interview clearly says he believes they drafted for need. He mentions it more as how you build a team. Not BPA.

Whatever, they are now Coyotes' prospects so hope for the best for them.

 

[lanky]

Who’s left on your BIG board?

David Edstrom

 

[rt]

David Edstrom

Loved

David Edstrom

Loved Willanders comments about Edstrom. He’d be a good add. But I want Strbak or Dragicevic. Sawchyn is high on my list too.

 

[BUX7PHX]

Bill Armstrong 364 days of the year: We take great pride in selecting the best player available. BPA all the way!
Draft Day: SWING FOR THE FENSSSSESSS!!111!! I'M JOSE CANSECO!!!!

The problem that is forgotten (and I have tried to warn people about): BPA means what the individual reflection of BPA is. Michkov may have been BPA on our board at 5 but he may have declined to interview with us. Everyone moves up.

BPA is simply eye of the beholder at that time. BPA may mean who will be the player we must have on our team at age 25 as a game changing type of player? It could also mean who is the best prospect now at that very moment (screw growth potential).

When people were saying that BA always takes BPA and always follows his list, my only question would be what if his list and the "consensus BPA" don't coincide? We are finding out right now.

 

[lanky]

Button's interview clearly says he believes they drafted for need. He mentions it more as how you build a team. Not BPA.

Whatever, they are now Coyotes' prospects so hope for the best for them.

Not positional need. We're overflowing with LD and RWs.

The criteria to earn a spot on their list is clearly weighted towards size and aggressiveness. Michkov was BPA at 6 OA but he didn't check Bill's boxes.

 

[rt]

Future Duda teammates goes to the canes.

 

[Alberta Yote]

Not positional need. We're overflowing with LD and RWs.

The criteria to earn a spot on their list is clearly weighted towards size and aggressiveness. Michkov was BPA at 6 OA but he didn't check Bill's boxes.

Hey they are the guys paid to scout, draft and build this team so let's see in 4 or 5 years how they did. I think I'm thrown a bit by the fact that Keller is by far the best player on the team. He is smallish. Cooley is by far the best prospect they have. He is smallish. Even Guenther who is still the 2nd best prospect after this draft might be bigger but is far from physical and aggressive. Those are the players we are all excited about and the team is banking on.

Of course maybe I just explained why they did went the way they did this year.

 

[MayDayMayDay]

What a weird first round.

 

[slv]

Chicago went with Bedard and Moore, Arizona ended with Simashev and But, what a difference...

 

[ck26]

Amazing

If Simashev is going to call him "Tage Thompson from Russia" then I'm ... I'm ... less disappointed than I was.

Fun day.

 

[Foggy1097]

Watched the draft and been lurking a bit for a while….seems like with all that’s been going on, the Coyotes looked to gain an edge in heavily scouting these Russian players when not many other teams were. Sounds like if they were not Russian they would have gotten much more attention. Did everyone notice that every player in the top 15-20 picks got interviews and tv time, including Michkov…except the two AZ picks? Doesn’t seem like a coincidence.

The pedigree of our scouting staff has been talked about quite a lot, so I’m going to trust they know what they’re doing and that these may be very high ceiling players if it works out. We’ll have to wait and see!

^ To add to the above…I thought maybe they didn’t interview them because they couldn’t speak the language. But no, turns out this kid speaks better English than Ovie and taught himself and they still didn’t interview him. Typical media political BS.

 

[rt]

Kinda fun to take two gigantic homerun swings like this. Especially since we’ve got a scouting team with a great reputation.

 

[Half Clapper]

Kinda fun to take two gigantic homerun swings like this. Especially since we’ve got a scouting team with a great reputation.

I thought we were taking Leonard

 

[ZDH]

Daniil But.

You were saying...

 

[Sm00chy]

Immediately hated the picks…. Now kind of excited. Two massive Russian wildcards seem fun… I’m in

 

[Mosby]

Couple ideas for the rest of the way:

Dragicevic
Gajan
Gauthier
Morin
Strbak
Sprynar
Akey
Tourigny
MacKinnon

 

[Matias Maccete]

I'm f***ing pumped. Rewatched a Simashev shift by shift in the khl, he's everywhere even in his draft year. But just straight up shreds his peers, couldn't find any Khl video of him sadly.

 

[Coyotes19c]

Can we please get at least one extra 2nd round pick tomorrow?

 

[Freddy Sjostrom]

Kinda fun to take two gigantic homerun swings like this. Especially since we’ve got a scouting team with a great reputation.

High risk, high reward. How many times during the Maloney or Gretzky era were fans calling for a swing like this?

 

[Schemp]

Disheartening, I wanted trades! Surprised no one wanted to trade up for Michkov.

 

[Freddy Sjostrom]

I'm f***ing pumped. Rewatched a Simashev shift by shift in the khl, he's everywhere even in his draft year. But just straight up shreds his peers, couldn't find any Khl video of him sadly.

It’s what you expect from an 18 year old in the K. Locomotiv made it to the second round, so they were leaning heavy on their stars. He played limited minutes. Just for him to get into games is a big deal, they must think a lot of him. Hopefully, both can transition to the VHL and get KHL minutes next year as well.

 

[Llewzaher]

Couple ideas for the rest of the way:

Dragicevic
Gajan
Gauthier
Morin
Strbak
Sprynar
Akey
Tourigny
MacKinnon

I am kind of glad that I have done no research on the prospects out of the 1st rd so I can’t be disappointed

 

[Matias Maccete]

It’s what you expect from an 18 year old in the K. Locomotiv made it to the second round, so they were leaning heavy on their stars. He played limited minutes. Just for him to get into games is a big deal, they must think a lot of him. Hopefully, both can transition to the VHL and get KHL minutes next year as well.

Makes sense thanks.

 

[rt]

I thought we were taking Leonard

Watching that interview is bizarre as neither of these kids were at the u18s lol.

BA is a next level manipulator. Good to know. Learning more about him. He fibs.

 

[SR]

Couple ideas for the rest of the way:

Dragicevic
Gajan
Gauthier
Morin
Strbak
Sprynar
Akey
Tourigny
MacKinnon

Drag
Gauthier
Strbak

I think we land one, maybe.