Prospect Info: The 2024 NHL Entry Draft Thread

[dahrougem2]

Cards Against Humanity.

Get to really know the kid. /Babcock

One of those games that is probably the funniest night of your life the first time you play it, then you can't play it ever again.

 

[McMetal]

If anybody wants to do some research on prospects, this YT channel posted a bunch of shift by shift videos for 2024 draft eligible prospects.

https://youtube.com/@prospectshifts?si=r5iLjy-gCRjFHh-o

 

[S E P H]

I wanna know how only 5 voted in Vegas

Because it's a new organisation six years old and most people do not know about this site. I suspect there are a ton of Vegas fans on sites like Reddit.

Settlers of Catan

I truly do not get this game...

 

[Ararana]

I would be so delighted if I went to a job interview and got to play board games while talking.

Companies really should start doing this too. My kid's therapist does the same thing with them. There's science behind distracting parts of the brain with games/legos/etc with lowers mental walls and allows more open and honest communication.

I'm quite impressed with cMac and team for being the first to implement this.

 

[S E P H]

What are some players are we hoping Avs avoid?

I think Greentree is the biggest one for me, a big player who doesn't play the physical game and is not an amazing skater.

 

[Pokecheque]

One of those games that is probably the funniest night of your life the first time you play it, then you can't play it ever again.

It peaked for me when my mother-in-law struggled to pronounce "queefing."

 

[henchman21]

What are some players are we hoping Avs avoid?

I think Greentree is the biggest one for me, a big player who doesn't play the physical game and is not an amazing skater.

Chernyshov. People see Tkachuk where he's more Podkolzin.

 

[tigervixxxen]

Any of the big defensemen who will score about 10 points in the AHL and never get called up because he’s not “earning it” and the ghosts of Jack Johnson are blocking him on the third pair.

 

[RockLobster]

Chernyshov. People see Tkachuk where he's more Podkolzin.

What about that Surin guy?

 

[henchman21]

What about that Surin guy?

Also not a huge fan. The Russian you’re looking for is in the ushl

 

[RockLobster]

Also not a huge fan. The Russian you’re looking for is in the ushl

I was going to ask if you meant Boisvert but he’s Canadian?

Gridin?

 

[henchman21]

I was going to ask if you meant Boisvert but he’s Canadian?

Gridin?

Gridin… find a way to get his drive up, but he’s a baller. I like Boisvert too, but people may have to mentally prepare for a 3C sort if he’s there.

 

[BobRossColton]

Any early 2nd rounder that would be worth the reach?

 

[henchman21]

Any early 2nd rounder that would be worth the reach?

Once we are into the 20s, all the players are really 2nd round talents. Flawed players where preferences will show. You’re really hoping for fallers for one reason or another.

 

[tigervixxxen]

Boisvert either can’t skate or doesn’t want to

 

[Balthazar]

So the real question is if/when Trevor Connelly falls, do we draft him?

Skillset compared to McDavid lite / Pavel Bure....but a worse human being than DeAngelo and possibly on par with Mitchell Miller.

 

[tigervixxxen]

No, the org doesn’t need more reasons to write someone off. He’s also more Ho-Sang than McDavid.

 

[Pokecheque]

No. Absolutely f***ing not.

 

[henchman21]

Avs are one of the teams doing a lot of homework on Connelly.

 

[Balthazar]

Avs are one of the teams doing a lot of homework on Connelly.

Without the off ice stuff you think he'd be a top 10 pick?

 

[henchman21]

Without the off ice stuff you think he'd be a top 10 pick?

Without a doubt. He's the highest impact non-USNDTP USHL draft year player since Kyle Connor. His impact on the ice is very clear. His conduct off the ice has hurt his stock.

Hopefully we don't have to go into the details of everything here as it will fill up 50 threads. Most of the items out there about Connelly are blatantly bad, unacceptable. Some lack context. A few are misunderstood. Nuance is something the internet is not particularly good at. Only if the time comes should we really get into that.

 

[S E P H]

Without the off ice stuff you think he'd be a top 10 pick?

He probably had a top 5-8 season, so yes.

If all this came within like within a 1-year timeframe, I would be more forgiving due to an idiot teenager acting like an idiot during puberty. If this is over 2-4 years, this seems more to be the norm of his than a change in character.

 

[S E P H]

Nuance is something the internet is not particularly good at. Only if the time comes should we really get into that.

Aristotle was so right when he mentions that written words are basically Pejorative Slured due to how much of it can be taken out of context and that spoken words are the true essence of an argument/decision.

 

[Pokecheque]

He probably had a top 5-8 season, so yes.

If all this came within like within a 1-year timeframe, I would be more forgiving due to an idiot teenager acting like an idiot during puberty. If this is over 2-4 years, this seems more to be the norm of his than a change in character.

Uh, no. I've been in youth hockey locker rooms and yes, some egregious shit goes on in them, Lord knows I said some gawdawful things trying to impress my teammates that I wish I had never said. BUT, no way in hell would anybody in those locker rooms defecate in someone's bag.

This kid sounds like baaaaaaad news. Avoid avoid avoid.

 

[Balthazar]

Uh, no. I've been in youth hockey locker rooms and yes, some egregious shit goes on in them, Lord knows I said some gawdawful things trying to impress my teammates that I wish I had never said. BUT, no way in hell would anybody in those locker rooms defecate in someone's bag.

This kid sounds like baaaaaaad news. Avoid avoid avoid.

Knowing the Avs' draft history perhaps it would be better to take a chance on a top 5ish talent that fell because he did some questionable things as a teen than to take a chance on another guy that more than likely won't make it to the NHL.