THE 2016 NHL DRAFT-DAY THREAD

[herman]

I really like Arizona's draft.

I'm picking Arizona as my second team to cheer for. Keller, Chychrun, Dineen in addition to Dvorak, Strome, Domi, Ekman-Larsson...

 

[Kin]

It's Bobylev or Bobylov. NHL and Google are conflicted.

Anyways, another overager it seems. He's 19.

 

[Al14]

Can Greenway handle NHL speed coming at him without becoming a turnover machine?

 

[herman]

Leaning haaard on Ari Vuori

Edit: oh wait, Bobylev is WHL.

 

[bustaheims]

this draft doesn't look too special outside the top 20.

That's the feeling I'm getting.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Can Greenway handle NHL speed coming at him without becoming a turnover machine?

Guys picked at that spot have about a 1 in 4 chance of playing 100 games in the NHL.

Nobody knows how any of these young dmen will react in the scenario you described.

They clearly see a kid with some raw tools.

With the proper development, he might be an NHL'er.

 

[TBLeafer]

Nice Bobylov like being scrappy, apparently.

 

[Kin]

Chicago finally took Connor Bleackley in the 5th round, two years after he was a 1st rounder who never was offered a contract.

Seems kind of crummy that PHX got a pick out of that whole situation.

 

[Kin]

Another overager, Jonathan Walker a defenseman who played for Victoria, is the #152 pick.

 

[TBLeafer]

Really interesting how close in age Leafs picks are now over the last two drafts.

Last year they go small, skilled high risk/reward players throughout the draft.

This year they go size, grit, scrappy traditional safe depths picks to fulsh out last seasons crop and moving the rebuild forward another year with players ready to step in and be Marlies now.

Even Matthews only missed last year's draft by 2 days.

I like it.  8)

 

[Deebo]

I wonder if other teams are picking many overagers, or just Toronto?

 

[herman]

this draft doesn't look too special outside the top 20.

That's the feeling I'm getting.

Hence the mining of previous drafts, and saving a year or two in development costs. Turns them over into draft picks/prospects faster, or pushes an existing prospect into that possibility. I don't know. It just looks like they're stirring the Marlie pot harder.

 

[TBLeafer]

this draft doesn't look too special outside the top 20.

That's the feeling I'm getting.

Hence the mining of previous drafts, and saving a year or two in development costs. Turns them over into draft picks/prospects faster, or pushes an existing prospect into that possibility. I don't know. It just looks like they're stirring the Marlie pot harder.

And the Solar Bears, given how actively they want to engage both farm systems at their disposal.  Their ECHL prospects are still thin.

 

[Zee]

Really interesting how close in age Leafs picks are now over the last two drafts.

Last year they go small, skilled high risk/reward players throughout the draft.

This year they go size, grit, scrappy traditional safe depths picks to fulsh out last seasons crop and moving the rebuild forward another year with players ready to step in and be Marlies now.

Even Matthews only missed last year's draft by 2 days.

I like it.  8)

Yeah that's how it seems. Last year they went for high skilled smaller guys this year bigger guys. By the time any of these guys are ready in a few years maybe they have a mix of size and skill. Who knows

 

[Kin]

I wonder if this draft is, at least in part, a reaction to maybe thinking the team didn't pick very well outside of the 1st round under Nonis.

 

[herman]

6th Rd:

 

[Kin]

6th Rd:

I guess they don't brew a 21 year old.

 

[L K]

I don't understand the rationale of drafting so many guys who weren't good enough to be drafted in the 1st or 2nd draft.

 

[Kin]

Another big defenseman. Nicolas Mattinen from the Knights at #179.

 

[herman]

I guess they don't brew a 21 year old.

This is more fitting, per your suggestion.