William Nylander

[Kin]

That's funny I remember it pretty differently. I remember Virtanen being the consensus guy to Vancouver with the question being which of Ehlers/Nylander/Ritchie the Leafs would go with.

 

[herman]

That's funny I remember it pretty differently. I remember Virtanen being the consensus guy to Vancouver with the question being which of Ehlers/Nylander/Ritchie the Leafs would go with.

I read through the Nylander draft thread recently, and this is what I recall from that thread. Not sure what MSM was pushing for, but a lot of them seemed to think Ritchie was in line with Burke/Nonis drafting philosophy.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

That's funny I remember it pretty differently. I remember Virtanen being the consensus guy to Vancouver with the question being which of Ehlers/Nylander/Ritchie the Leafs would go with.

It might be revisionist thinking perhaps. I remember the top-5 being set in stone pretty much and the next group of Virtanen/Ehlers/Nylander/Ritchie being up for grabs after that. I think I was basically happy with whichever one of Nylander or Ehlers was left, but was worried Vancouver and Carolina would pick them both.

 

[Andy007]

That's funny I remember it pretty differently. I remember Virtanen being the consensus guy to Vancouver with the question being which of Ehlers/Nylander/Ritchie the Leafs would go with.

This is just how I remember it too. I didn't want the Leafs to touch Ritchie and was hoping for either Ehlers or Nylander.

 

[sneakyray]

I watched that 1st round not too many months ago and the thing that stood out to me was that bobby mac said the leafs were high on larkin as well at #8. 

 

[Zee]

I remember Ritchie being mentioned alot before the draft, Don Cherry piping in and saying the Leafs should take Ritchie and when they went with Nylander fans were pleasantly surprised the Leafs chose based on pure skill.  Dave Nonis's greatest day in retrospect. 

 

[bustaheims]

Dave Nonis's greatest day in retrospect. 

That was the moment it was clear to me that things would be different under Shanahan. If he wasn't brought in as president, I'm not convinced the Leafs would have drafted Nylander.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

That was the moment it was clear to me that things would be different under Shanahan. If he wasn't brought in as president, I'm not convinced the Leafs would have drafted Nylander.

Especially since it seems like Shanahan's personal insight may have erased some or all of the criticisms that some scouts had about Nylander's character.

 

[herman]

That was the moment it was clear to me that things would be different under Shanahan. If he wasn't brought in as president, I'm not convinced the Leafs would have drafted Nylander.

Especially since it seems like Shanahan's personal insight may have erased some or all of the criticisms that some scouts had about Nylander's character.

For those that were interested:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/maple-leafs-president-no-mere-figurehead/article19387163/

Shanahan intends to provide as much help as possible to Nonis and Co., even on days like the draft when, he admitted, many of the kids chosen had already finished their seasons by the time he took the Leafs top job this spring.

Nevertheless, he became particularly useful given slick Swedish forward William Nylander was one of the scouting staff?s top targets at eighth overall.

Shanahan and Nylander p?re played the 2006-07 season together on the New York Rangers, are of a similar age and get along very well, meaning the Leafs had some unique insight into their potential pick?s background and upbringing.

By the time the draft weekend came around, Shanahan felt he had such a good grasp on William Nylander?s personality and promise that he found the fact some were questioning his character in the lead-up to Friday humorous.

More importantly, those scouting reports were potentially beneficial to the Leafs, who wanted him to slip to their pick.

?I knew it wasn?t true,? Shanahan said. ?I did a lot of homework on him.

?I called players that I played with in Detroit that had played with William over in Sweden. ? To be honest with you, I did it a while ago.

?Everybody I talked to, people whose opinions I really respect, guys who are in dressing rooms, couldn?t say enough about the kid.?

Nonis, who was placed in the uncomfortable position of having a new boss looking over his shoulder back in April, admitted he was glad to have the added intel.

 

[herman]

Willy's (Medium Chewie) goal from last night: https://streamable.com/h7wg

Even though he hadn't been scoring up to this point, in the past 2-ish games, Nylander has been playing more assertively than I can recall. He's slight to the eye, but really holds his skates well and is putting in hard work on the boards.

This goal shows some of that strength and the uncanny net-sense snipers (like Matthews) have. Smith providing a nice screen to go with Matthews drawing attention out front.

 

[herman]

Some hot doggin' idiots caused a bit of a kerfuffle in the Toronto sports media scene. I was going to track down some Twitter tirades about it, but decided to wait it out because others are paid to do this.

http://theleafsnation.com/2016/11/23/william-nylander-and-the-beautiful-game

Yesterday morning, Dave Feschuk and Steve Simmons met on the radio to talk hockey, and the subject of William Nylander came up. Their take below thanks to the transcribing of Platinum Seat Ghosts:

Simmons: "on the nights where William Nylander has tried hard, I've been impressed"

Feschuk: "well that's not often"

? Platinum Seat Ghosts (@3rdPeriodSuits) November 22, 2016

There are a lot of reasons why this is ridiculous. He's just a rookie, he's been really good already, his usage hasn't been ideal, it's ignorant and toxic.

 

[bustaheims]

Feschuk and Simmons having a discussion of any kind might be the least intelligent and least informed conversation ever.

 

[Bill_Berg]

I stopped paying attention at Simmo-

 

[McGarnagle]

Well, in Simmons defence in the quote, I've been pretty impressed on the nights when Nylander has tried hard too. There's been a lot of them.

Not sure what the discussion de-evolved to, but I was listening to the 1050 on the way home where the panel was discussing how Toronto media wanted constant interviews with Andersen when he started so poorly, and now that he's playing well, they don't have any interest. Now its all about Matthews slumping. They'd rather report on controversy than actual hockey.

 

[Highlander]

What we find in life is that people love to project the negative as it is the reality of the future. This is what our minds do, but this fact is the true illusion of life.  Today in my own business life with some big problems I find my mind is projecting a lot of negative S__t and its easy to get caught up in this projected reality.  The fact of the matter is most things work out completley differently than we project, in case most things turn out completely differently than fear based projections. 
I have seemed to find my inner Zen.
Sorry if it doesn't make sense. But in the case of Simmons I am not sorry.

 

[Highlander]

Any news on Nylander or has Lou brought in the Cone of Silence?

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

They should trade Nylander for help on defense articles/sports radio segments coming at you in 3...2...1......

 

[freer]

They should trade Nylander for help on defense articles/sports radio segments coming at you in 3...2...1......

Well that would be the stupid thing I ever heard.

 

[princedpw]

They should trade Nylander for help on defense articles/sports radio segments coming at you in 3...2...1......

Well that would be the stupid thing I ever heard.

Why?  If they could get a defenseman of comparable value, it might improve the team,no?

 

[freer]

They should trade Nylander for help on defense articles/sports radio segments coming at you in 3...2...1......

Well that would be the stupid thing I ever heard.

Why?  If they could get a defenseman of comparable value, it might improve the team,no?

Please name a defence men at the same age Nylander, that is anywhere as good.