Jonas Mahonas

The Donald!

Boy, Trump would love you as a supporter. "Yzerman admits to s***ty Defense Prospect Pool" The GM said "Boy, would have been great to be able to nab Cozens with that 6th pick like everyone on the face of earth thought we should. Too bad Holland left our prospect pool without a single top pairing prospect for me and instead drafted 175 straight left handed forwards." Even when the draft selections SCREAM drafting for need, LGWers are too blind to see it or too proud to admit it. Even when the draft pick himself has the biggest WTF look on his face ever seen at a draft, LGWers wont believe the obvious. YZERMAN DRAFTED FOR NEED (DEFENSEMEN WITH HIGH CEILING POTENTIAL). Get it through your skulls. You make no sense. You make sense.

I hope we acquire Seider and Tuomisto. Would be nice to offer thrm ELCs and watch thrm develop. I also hope we bring back Hronek, Cholowski, Bowey, Lindstrom, and Regula. If those 7 guys stay with us, we will have plenty of defensemen with Dekeyser, Kronwall, Green, Daley, and Ericsson.

That is where i would go. So much talent there.

This. Its so obvious.

Wings are gonna get tagged next off season. 7 for AA, 6.5 for Mantha, 5 for Bert.

Drew Doughty?

TLG, KRS will never eat his crow. We draft the top RH defenseman after missing out on Karlsson and Trouba 10 picks ahead of his expected draft position, and KRS is trying to convince us he was the BPA. I explain why Yzerman cant come out and directly say that there were forwards available that were better players, but KRS wont listen. His way, or the highway.

Good call.

Will Seider be at development camp?

Ha. I actually like DeKeyser. But he isnt top line material on a winner.

Im not. I really think Colorado nailed it. Yup. A+. Avs are going to win it next year. I am going to put a G on it in Vegas.

I like pick 35. He seems solid. Yah, Yzerman didnt have a good draft. Sakic had a good draft.

Im loving our draft minus not getting Cozens. I wanted that guy bad. But our system was thin on defense, so we drafted for that.

I hope so. I just think we are all a little overexcited.

I disagree. Hronek-McIsaac + Seider-Cholowski is a super solid BOTTOM 4. We are currently missing a 1A and 1B in our system. I hope a few of these guys step up, but we really need to target that Dahlin type guy soon. A game changer type defenseman.

I actually wouldnt mind resigning Dekeyser to 5 years 25 mil again and having him play 2B. Hronek- Cholowski Seider-DeKeyser Lindstrom-McIaaac Sulak-Bowey Something like that would be a good base to keep improving.

I wonder how different this draft would have looked had we landed Trouba.

Cool. It will be interesting to see if we chop Kronwall and Daley now to make room for the younglings.

You were WRONG. We clearly drafted for position. Yzerman isnt going to say he passed up 3-4 players he felt were better players. Give me a break. But absolutely ZERO people in the world, including Mo Seider, thought he'd go before Zegras, Cozens, etc. Most had him outside the top 15. He was the top RH defenseman available. Yzerman tried to get him at 10 or 11 by trading back, but offering this up only showed his cards. The other teams knew they didnt need to give up anything, so they didnt.

I thought he had to be 20 to do that. Does that only apply if they are coming from juniors?

No!

KRS wont eat his crow.

I was shocked and disappointed not to have cozens as mu knee jerk. Now im stoked and impatient for Seider.

KRS - see how Yzerman took the smooth skating Right Handed Defenseman in front of 10 BPAs to fill a 1B D need? We needed a Right Handed winger too, but he filled the more important NEED. I am shocked we didnt trade back to do this, but it just doesnt happen in the NHL as much as it does in other sports.