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Wright wont be the top player out of this draft maybe not even top 5 but he wont be a bust. Hell likely go back to Kingston and put up 2pts/gp this season and then go to Seattle and put up over 0.5pts/gp next season. I think hell be close to a pt/gp 2way center in his prime yrs. Agree tho that he seems like a tool. The dirty looks he was giving the montreal table at the draft was major cringe.

In what world does Yzerman sign Zadina to $4M? Itll be $2M max imo.

Link? With the additions made so far this summer plus Klingberg this is a playoff team. Bert-Larks-Raymond Vrana-Copp-Perron Zadina-Suter-Kubalik Ras-Veleno-Sundqvist Chiarot-Seider Edvinsson-Klingberg Maatta-Hronek Ned/Husso Erne/Oesterle/Lindstrom

This. Kasper is another homerun? slam dunk? powerplay goal by SY. This kid will be a top 5 player in this draft. Love this pick and for that reason alone love this draft. Easy A

Kasper was an elite pick. SY doesnt miss on 1st round picks (unless he has 2 1st round picks)........

Soderblom signed.

I like this trade and this trade. edit: Carolina dont have there R1 this year.

What else would it take? Johansson? R2 pick?

I seen this rumor floating around not sure how it makes sense for Edmonton tho unless we add.

Only thing worse then Finnish hockey players is French Canadian hockey players. I like Bystedt tho.

8oa - Marco Kasper or Cutter Gauthier 40oa - Ivan Miroshnichenko or Gleb Trikozov 52oa - Lian Bichsel or Sam Rinzel

Coulda been so much better with faces photoshopped rather then logos. Rantanen Makar MacKinnon Landeskog McDavid

Lol who the hell ever said Draisaitl is better then McDavid? McD is the best hockey player in the world and its not close.

'build' and 'build around' are 2 very diffrent things. A core of a team is usually what 4 or 5 players? Thats usually your high R1 picks. Your not rounding out top6F/top4D with just R1 picks also need to hit on some later round picks. Were all hoping Berggren Soderblom Wallinder Johansson are those top of the lineup later round picks but nothings certain with any those players either. Not what I meant. Your saying we dont need to draft good in all rounds? Every team spending millions on scouting would disagree. Why do gms acquire picks beyond R1? Why do we even have a draft beyond R1? If you think this team has been good enough finding players in the later rounds i disagree.

Ya you build around your R1 picks. No one is saying build a team any other way. Were going to build around Larkin Vrana Raymond Seider Edvinsson all R1 picks. Thats our core 5 players. Are we gonna wait another 5 years worth of R1 picks to round out our top6F/top4D or are we going to hope/need to hit on at least a couple later round picks? Or make trades to acquire more R1 picks or former R1 players?

Statistically unlikely when talking 1 late round pick sure but what about 60+ picks rounds 2-7 in 10+ years? Weve been bad at hitting on these later round picks we need to be better. SY needs to bring some of that magic he had in TB. I disagree that you can build a contender without hitting on at least some later round picks. No team builds a contender with just R1 picks.

You want to hit on as many picks as you can but your likely only gonna hit on R1 picks and not trade for any more R1 picks. If the draft was such a crapshoot why bother making the selections why not just assign players to teams out of a hat? Theres obv skill involved in drafting in the later rounds SY has proven to have that skill in the past on multiple occasions. I just want him to show that same skill in Detroit hopefully he already has with Johansson Wallinder Soderblom etc.

Hit on as many as we can would imply that you need to hit on later round picks which is exactly what Im saying. Unless your acquiring multiple R1 picks which is what SY should be doing.

Lets hope but hes also a high R2 pick. SY needs to find elite players outside the top50 like he did twice in Tampa. Its almost expected that top4 6 even 8 picks be top line/top pair players. To get back on top we need to find those players beyond R1/2.

Like I said in the previous post Im talking top6F/top4D not players that simply made it. AA was for a couple seasons but I wouldnt consider AA or Jensen impact players also wouldnt count on Regula making it anything more then bottom2D. Every year fans talk about d+1 players that have a shot at making it. Give it another year and half those players will be forgotten just like every other year. The only 2 Im counting on from that bunch now are Soderblom and Mazur the rest are garb.

Well aware on both counts. Like I said yesterday I dont mind missing on late round picks but I do mind going o-fer in 60+ attempts since Nyquist. I bet every team in the league has more hits in R3+ since 2008 then the Red Wings. Luckily SY is about to hit a homerun with his 6 round pick in 2019 Soderblom.

Trikozov looks like a hell of a prospect but teams are going to be afraid of Russian players even more this year then in past years. I just mentioned in another thread that SY needs to find a Kucherov level prospect beyond R1..... This kid will be our R2 40oa pick and become our Kucherov2.0. FWIW I wouldnt mind at all if Yzerman took him at 8oa.

Stacked LD but RD looks pretty wide open. I said before tho Cotton shoulda switched to RW would have a much better shot at cracking a NHL lineup as a W then D imo. Either way no big loss with him or Eliasson/Kivenmaki. Side note- this org used to be the best in the biz at drafting talent deep in the draft. It feels like weve been the worst for the past decade or so its been real bad. We havent had a significant hit top6F/top4D beyond R2 since 2008 when we drafted Nyquist in R4. We havent even had many R2 hits outside of Bert and Hronek- 2 players most of the fan base wants traded. SY needs to find a Kucherov/Point in R2/3 to get this team back on top.

Cotton not signed.

SY isnt trading up.