If a team can get a solid, everyday NHL player at the bottom end of the first round (or beyond) in a not terribly deep draft, that’s a good bit of business. Obviously they want to shoot for more, but if that’s where they land, just getting everyday NHL players from the draft can be a challenge.
I think the blueliners this year that project to go within the first two rounds (beyond the top six dudes you have Stolberg, Jiricek, Emery, Elick, Badinka, Kleber, Freij, Brunnicke, Mews, Kleber, and Danford) all have easy top four potential this year.
Could be. I don’t want to say it’s a crapshoot because I believe some teams have a good eye for talent and some objective metrics they use to evaluate that talent. But at the same time, there’s definitely some dark arts to evaluating kids for the pro game, especially once you get beyond the top ten or so.
Plenty of those kids may have potential but do they live up to it? Or are they Nikita Filatov Part Deux? Do they get hurt? So many variables come in to play. That’s why I view getting a solid contributing NHL player after the first 20-ish picks to be a win.
The real problem to me is teams that are happy at that level. That should be the baseline the strive for. But teams have to knock it out of the park on later picks at times to be truly successful. Like Quiet Wyatt.
This is all we need to know right. Oddly though going back a decade to Dallas having a number of 3rd pair defenders wouldn't be a bad script to read from for a draft or two. Nemeth, Lindell, Oleksiak even Jokipakka are guys that this team could use right now more than a Klingberg.
The problem is right now that the pipeline is pretty empty because of short drafts (2019 & 2020) and guys like Johnston and Stankoven showing up early. I just really hope they avoid the landrush drafts like they've done previously. 1 FWD in 2019 & 2022, 0 D in 2020, 1 D per year 2016-2018 (1 Miro and 2 6ths won't cut it). Until this team shows it is willing to trade AHL level guys, they've got to keep a semi smooth pipeline. That 2016-18 gap is a direct result of selecting 7 D in 2014 and essentially whiffing on all of them.
If a team can get a solid, everyday NHL player at the bottom end of the first round (or beyond) in a not terribly deep draft, that’s a good bit of business. Obviously they want to shoot for more, but if that’s where they land, just getting everyday NHL players from the draft can be a challenge.
I think the blueliners this year that project to go within the first two rounds (beyond the top six dudes you have Stolberg, Jiricek, Emery, Elick, Badinka, Kleber, Freij, Brunnicke, Mews, Kleber, and Danford) all have easy top four potential this year.
Could be. I don’t want to say it’s a crapshoot because I believe some teams have a good eye for talent and some objective metrics they use to evaluate that talent. But at the same time, there’s definitely some dark arts to evaluating kids for the pro game, especially once you get beyond the top ten or so.
Plenty of those kids may have potential but do they live up to it? Or are they Nikita Filatov Part Deux? Do they get hurt? So many variables come in to play. That’s why I view getting a solid contributing NHL player after the first 20-ish picks to be a win.
The real problem to me is teams that are happy at that level. That should be the baseline the strive for. But teams have to knock it out of the park on later picks at times to be truly successful. Like Quiet Wyatt.
skates well for a big man...
This is all we need to know right. Oddly though going back a decade to Dallas having a number of 3rd pair defenders wouldn't be a bad script to read from for a draft or two. Nemeth, Lindell, Oleksiak even Jokipakka are guys that this team could use right now more than a Klingberg.
The problem is right now that the pipeline is pretty empty because of short drafts (2019 & 2020) and guys like Johnston and Stankoven showing up early. I just really hope they avoid the landrush drafts like they've done previously. 1 FWD in 2019 & 2022, 0 D in 2020, 1 D per year 2016-2018 (1 Miro and 2 6ths won't cut it). Until this team shows it is willing to trade AHL level guys, they've got to keep a semi smooth pipeline. That 2016-18 gap is a direct result of selecting 7 D in 2014 and essentially whiffing on all of them.
At least they learned their lesson. lol
Didn’t Tufte “ Skate well for a big man “. ???? Pass !