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2020 NHL Draft

herman

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RoundPickPlayer NamePositionDraft YearHeightWeightLeague
115Rodion AmirovRW2020 (D-0)6'1"182 lbsKHL
259Roni HirvonenC2020 (D-0)5'9"170 lbsLiiga
364Topi NiemelaRD2020 (D-0)6'0"163 lbsLiiga
4106Artur AkhtyamovG2020 (D-0)6'2"170 lbsMHL
4122William VilleneuveRD2020 (D-0)6'1"181 lbsQMJHL
5137Dmitri OvchinnikovL/C/R2020 (D-0)5'11"163 lbsKHL
6168Veeti MiettinenRW2020 (D-0)5'9"159 lbsFinnish Jr.
6177Axel RindellRD2018 (D+2)6'0"176 lbsLiiga
6180Joe MillerC/RW2020 (D-0)5'9"146 lbsUSHS
7189John FuscoRD2019 (D+1)5'11"181 lbsUSHS
7195Wyatt SchingoetheC2020 (D-0)5'11"201 lbsUSHL
7213Ryan TverbergC2020 (D-0)5'11"174 lbsOJHL


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Might as well!

This thread is a good start to acquaint oneself with players that aren't Lafrenierre and Byfield
https://twitter.com/brigstew86/status/1258416923915796481
 
herman said:
Might as well!

This thread is a good start to acquaint oneself with players that aren't Lafrenierre and Byfield
https://twitter.com/brigstew86/status/1258416923915796481
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Welp... We don't have a pick so should we care? Lol
 
Just going to keep a running tally of names/games I liked as I slowly go through this massive list of articles with massive lists of player profiles

Centres
Colby Ambrosio
Jaromir Pytlik

Wingers
Yegor Sokolov
Ben McCartney
Brett Berard
Alex Laferriere
Zayde Wisdom

Defense
Alex Cotton
Yan Kuznetsov
Mitchell Miller looks like I didn't do my due diligence here
William Villaneuve

Goalies
 
Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.
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I'm curious about the guy who went to team video analysis meetings in the nude.
 
herman said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Articles like this bug me. Name the players or this just sounds like fiction!

For the record, the guy who took a #2 on his girlfriends car was Kevin Hayes.
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I'm curious about the guy who went to team video analysis meetings in the nude.
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In my defence, they did tell me a suit was optional.
 
https://twitter.com/JhanHky/status/1265589518490636291
My biggest takeaway working with elite coaches such as Darryl Belfry and Adam Nicholas (StrideEnvy) is that player development cannot be disassociated from scouting.

Players with solid junior production sometimes don?t translate because of technical weaknesses never addressed by the teams that draft them.

Players who score in minor pro sometimes can?t crack an NHL roster because their patterns of play are easily neutralized by high-level defenders.

Players with modest production in lower league occasionally play better against tougher competition because of their ability to leverage stronger linemates.

Happens all the time.
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WOW Just throwing bombs at Edmonton and Buffalo sheesh
 
https://twitter.com/jokkenevalainen/status/1266716875766915073

You will not believe who comes in at the top of the list of teams
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/jokkenevalainen/status/1266716875766915073

You will not believe who comes in at the top of the list of teams
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That actually is kind of surprising.
 
There was some quantity sure, quality... not so much.

Boyes, Kadri and Steen were the only forwards who averaged over .5 PPG in their career.
Gunnarsson was the only real top 4D.
Rask was the only quality starter and then there was Reimer.

To make things worse, only Kadri and Reimer of those that had their best years with the Leafs and got nothing notable in return for the rest. Although they were able to turn Schenn into JVR

Basically, 10 years of drafting got them Kadri & JVR as top 6 forwards, fringe starter Reimer, and a bunch of nothing. The team results have reflected that.
 
Please remember that this analysis focused purely on finding NHL players. The quality of the players was not taken into consideration at all, so a player who plays 100 NHL games on the fourth line is worth the same as a Hall of Fame player.
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This is from the article. I appreciate that he's upfront about it but it feels like maybe it also warrants a mention that Detroit and Toronto were, by the mid point of the decade, also two fairly old teams that probably had more opportunities for fringe NHLers from the draft than other teams.
 
Thommie Bergman picks bringing huge swings as well: Carl Gunnarsson, Anton Stralman, Leo Komarov, Viktor Stalberg all came out of the 6th and 7th rounds. 2006 was a tidal wave of adequate NHLers from our picks (6/7 played over 100 games).
 
Not many stars in the bunch, sure, but 16 guys who played 400+ games in the NHL. That's not exactly just a bunch of fringe players - those are legit NHL players. 8 players drafted in the 5th round or later played 250+ games, which is an excellent return on late round picks.

The lack of high level talent is disappointing, yeah, but the Leafs still produced a solid number of guys that had legit NHL careers.
 
bustaheims said:
Not many stars in the bunch, sure, but 16 guys who played 400+ games in the NHL. That's not exactly just a bunch of fringe players - those are legit NHL players. 8 players drafted in the 5th round or later played 250+ games, which is an excellent return on late round picks.

The lack of high level talent is disappointing, yeah, but the Leafs still produced a solid number of guys that had legit NHL careers.
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That we promptly traded away [emoji23] (I will never get over the Steen trade).
 
Bender said:
That we promptly traded away [emoji23] (I will never get over the Steen trade).
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Yeah, that part's not great, but, at least the amateur scouts were doing their jobs relatively well. The pro scouts and the GMs, however....
 
https://www.tsn.ca/bob-mckenzie-s-final-ranking-lafreniere-the-surest-thing-in-most-uncertain-draft-year-1.1488272
 
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