Roughneck
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American GMs are known for how much they flock to the Quebec prep leagues.
Thoughts about Jankowski?
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American GMs are known for how much they flock to the Quebec prep leagues.
Ace Rimmer
Stoke me a clipper.
Backlund
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Didn't like the pick at all on draft day considering I didn't know who he was but now I think he was a decent pick. Of course it will take longer to know for sure but from my limited amount of viewings and readings he seems to be the player we want and need but will take time to get here (if he ever does). He has the skills to be a top line center but is also behind physically and hasn't played a lot against top notch competition. Overall, it wasn't a terrible pick but not the type of pick we should be making with our prospect pool. If I could rewind to draft day I'd probably keep 14th and drafted Teravainen or Ceci, or traded back to 21st and taken Maatta.
I think he has been exceptional through his first season, next year I hope he makes a permanent move to center instead of wing and it would be nice if he could be around a PPG.
I didnt mind the trade either considering we got Sieloff who is the type of player Calgary is sorely lacking on the blueline right now.
I didnt mind the trade either considering we got Sieloff who is the type of player Calgary is sorely lacking on the blueline right now.
InfinityIggy
Zagidulin's Dad
Yeah, I was not high on Sieloff at the time but its becoming more apparent we need a player like him on our backend. Looking like a great pick so far.
tmurfin
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Revisionist history, or you're not remembering accurately. Pelech was supposed to go in the 5th-7th round. He was definitely a mind-numbing reach. Nemisz was slated to go early in the 2nd round, so he was less of a reach. When you draft a kid who lit up a league that is equivalent to midget AA, you're taking quite a risk. Heck, all of us here played hockey at that level. I hope Jankowski works out, but Teravainen was who we should have taken, or Maatta if JF insisted on trading down. Our 2nd round pick was pretty suspect too with Bystrom, Frk and Thrower still on the board. Really did like our picks after that though, even though Gordon has played like garbage this year. There was upside with all of them.
I agree. With our draft record we shouldn't even have scouts. We should just pick who TSN says we should.
TheHudlinator
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Not true http://www.tsn.ca/draftcentre/feature/?id=7125 Nemisz was suppose to be a late first rounder and was.
As for Pelech he was huge reach, but he literally had no upside and hadn't really played a whole lot in his draft year. It was a gut call and it was terrible.
Sieloff has had a terrible year. He's been awful. We need a no skill, smallish, poor positionally defender now? He throws some big hits for his size, but people talk about him as if he was 6'4" and 220. He's 6'0" 195 (shorter than Brodie, but 10 pounds heavier). He has no hockey sense and is good at rocking small, immature junior players. Think he'll drop Corey Perry the same way?
TheHudlinator
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Assuming we take the next highest rated player if the one they had ranked at our spot is gone we would have.
Petteri Nokelainen
Guillaume Latendresse
Yuri Alexandrov
Nick Petrecki
Nicolas Deschamps
Simon Despres
No pick
Nathan Beaulieu
TheHudlinator
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I haven't seen alot of OHL games but given that you said Gordon has been terrible and the games I have seen of him he has been pretty good, plays physical just has had some bad puck luck I am going to take what you say with a pretty large grain of salt.
tmurfin
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Ace Rimmer
Stoke me a clipper.
The amount of over-exaggeration (borderline fabrications) in this thread is nothing short of astonishing.
InfinityIggy
Zagidulin's Dad
That's the only ranking where I see him in the first round, there are tons of others and he averages around the 35th-40th pick mark.
Where do you live? I live in Swift Current and have Broncos season tickets. I've seen him play almost every home game for the past two years. He was better last year than he's been this year. This year Adam Lowry has carried that line. Coda is not a very physical player for his size, so I'm not sure what you're talking about at all. His strength is his shot and his hands in tight.
He's a big hitter and is willing to drop the gloves. I love Danny Dale, but I don't think he'd be a good draft pick.
What's a fabrication? If you're going to throw around words you should specify. Does he play well in his own end? Does he make a good outlet pass? Does he currently play against physically mature players? You honestly think the best part of his game (open ice hits) is going to translate against NHL size players?
Honestly, people who think Phaneuf took himself out of the play with bad hit selection haven't seen anything yet.
TheHudlinator
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Some did yes but those generally are the ones that have Karlsson going in the late first, in general he was seen as a late first/early second not nearly as black and white as you made it out to be.
I said he was less of a reach. He was less of a reach. Much more like a Jankowski type pick than Pelech would be. The OP was suggesting that we made "safe" picks and referenced Pelech and Nemisz. Nemisz was kind of a safe pick, but Pelech was anything but.
Btw, what I said was "Nemisz was slated to go early in the second round." That is where he was slated to go on average, so I'm not sure what your point is?
