Roughneck
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Feaster is American, so maybe he wants to draft from leagues he knows.
American GMs are known for how much they flock to the Quebec prep leagues.
Feaster is American, so maybe he wants to draft from leagues he knows.
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.
still think that the trade feaster made is gona haunt the flames for a while. we should have picked up Teuvo Teravainen. hes gona be an all star player one day.
No it's not. Sutter never took a chance, in fact he always took the safest picks which led us to draft guys like Nemisz, Pelech, etc.
Some of us seem to forget how the draft mentality used to be a few years ago.
By who ISS? TSN? They are wrong every year about prospects, why even have scouts if we are just going to pick who TSN says we should. We were going to trade the pick until our scouts saw Janko, there is clearly something there for them to risk their reputation on him maybe we should let it play out before we call it a bad pick?
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.
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.
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.
Assuming we take the next highest rated player if the one they had ranked at our spot is gone we would have.I agree. With our draft record we shouldn't even have scouts. We should just pick who TSN says we should.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
From everything I've heard from spits fans, they seem to love him?
Thats a total fabrication, wow. Just wow. Stop. talking. now.
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.
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.