Jimmi McJenkins
Sometimes miracles
Did Stu pick Petry? I don't believe so.
And Peckham...for what that's worth, you got NHL time out him (rightly or wrongly)
Did Stu pick Petry? I don't believe so.
If the worst mistake we've made at the draft in the past 5 years is taking Musil over Jenner then I can live with that.
Example: I'm sure Carolina would rather have Erik Karlsson over Zach Boychuck.
Is this post for real?
Actually read the OP again and feel free to edit your post.
The biggest problem with this is the timing of the RNH pick. We didn't know we would be drafting 1st overall again in 2013. We needed a center and RNH fills that bill. I don't think anyone could argue that.
As far as Galchenyuk goes, lets not get too carried away after 6 games. Yakupov had the better rookie season and lead his team in goals.
Either way, we are losing games because of Goaltending. Not because we didn't draft Galchenyuk.
I'm not even looking at point totals from this year or last. Galchenyuk plays a much more complete game than Yak. And at the end of the day, keeping the puck out of your net is just as important as scoring goals. Galy may never put up 40 goals like Yak likely will, but Yak is never going to play the kind of 200 ft game Galy does.
I like Yak, but this team is too easy to beat. There are too many 90 lbs weaklings that aren't committed to playing a complete game.
I'm not even looking at point totals from this year or last. Galchenyuk plays a much more complete game than Yak. And at the end of the day, keeping the puck out of your net is just as important as scoring goals. Galy may never put up 40 goals like Yak likely will, but Yak is never going to play the kind of 200 ft game Galy does.
I like Yak, but this team is too easy to beat. There are too many 90 lbs weaklings that aren't committed to playing a complete game.
You cant tell a year and a half after the draft but you expect the scouts to get it right at the draft. Hindsight IS 2020... Look who was picked right after Moroz, Musil and how many other teams also passed up on Jenner\Saad\Zucker..
The scouts work with the info they have.. EDM's scouts have been as un psychic as any other team.
Scouting IMO is not an issue... developing these kids properly sometimes is.
And Peckham...for what that's worth, you got NHL time out him (rightly or wrongly)
Mysterybox-chenyuk's legend continues to grow, first he's a "big center" (who plays the wing and is the same size as the Nuge) and now he's a two-way player?I'm not even looking at point totals from this year or last. Galchenyuk plays a much more complete game than Yak. And at the end of the day, keeping the puck out of your net is just as important as scoring goals. Galy may never put up 40 goals like Yak likely will, but Yak is never going to play the kind of 200 ft game Galy does.
I like Yak, but this team is too easy to beat. There are too many 90 lbs weaklings that aren't committed to playing a complete game.
I find it hilarious this thread pops up quite regularly, and the only names that come up are the 'pie-in-the-sky' players drafted in the latter rounds that make impacts... that EVERY team passed on multiple times.
What I am saying is with most of these picks in the 30-45th range overall that the success rate at this point should be better than what the results show as of today.
Is this thread for real? Scouting is the furthest thing from being a problem.
I'm not sure Seguin, Larsson, and Murray make us any better then Hall, RNH and Yakupov.
Eberle and Petry were astute picks. Gagner was a decent pick as well.
Our scouting has been great in the first round. Any time our picks didn't turn out (Paajarvi and Plante) they turned it into something (Perron and Marincin).
It's not about 1st rounders.
It's about getting something GOOD out of those mid rounds now and then.
Once in a while you can get away with your 1st rounder not turning out, but once in a while you need a 3rd-6th rounder to turn into a very important player too.
Mysterybox-chenyuk's legend continues to grow, first he's a "big center" (who plays the wing and is the same size as the Nuge) and now he's a two-way player?
What's next, he'll have invented the concept of scoring on the PP or something, geez.
Again, the chances of drafting a NHLer in those spots is between 26 and 32%. So where do you get the idea that we should be better than the rest of the league?
That's not about scouting, necessarily. Just dumb luck.
That's not about scouting, necessarily. Just dumb luck.
Jersey and Detroit must have a ton of that. They must have had it for a long time. If that's not the case it's all on the executives of our team to not have caught onto what they've been doing by now.
1: It's not that we SHOULD be drafting better than the rest of the league. It's that the majority of the league shouldn't be drafting and developing this much better than us.
2: If we're drafting earlier than 90% of the other teams year after year we should be picking up the better players more often than the other teams when drafting outside of the first round. That's not happening.
But they aren't. That's the point.
Nope. Basically the odds of picking an NHLer at 31-35 are about the same as picking one at 56-60.
Jersey and Detroit must have a ton of that. They must have had it for a long time. If that's not the case it's all on the executives of our team to not have caught onto what they've been doing by now.
Its also about scouting. Last year's draft was brutal. Too many reaches and too much trading down for an extra lotto ticket on late picks.