Jimmybigrigs69

Literally the perfect 2nd gen CEO. Daddy built the company, but the son, while not a go-getting self-starter, masters how to stay on top and bring the company into the next gen. But even that is a poor analogy since Holland helped build the company with daddy as scouting director and AGM for YEARS

Ur wife likes me

Uh oh, looks like the oilers learned how to score Night night kitty kats

Dikes love Holland. And the German army loves visiting Holland.

Looks like youll be McWrong

When I was in Stockholm the big mac was called a Mcdorgen Borgen

Im not convinced any of our D prospects our future top4s besides ASP. Wouldn't mind drafting more of those.

If youre talking about McDonald's that place is racist. A red headed bufoon named ronald mcdonald? Raciss irish stereotype right there. Dont give them money.

McDraisatl has seriously dropped the McBall this McSeries. They should remove his Mc and McTrade him.

We already got his first kid with Christian. Why not?

Can't believe the NHL is allowing this to happen to the biggest McStar they've ever had. This is bad for Edmonton, and therefore hockey around the world.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/youth-hockey-canada-declining-participation-1.7231607 Canadian hockey is dying, while American hockey is growing rapidly. Thank you Gary Blesshim. Maybe they can start un-aliving some politicians until they decide to lower taxes, and the kids can afford pads again. But I guess you would need spooky guns for that

I have zero interest in Jeannot Berggren is worth more to me than what comes back in the philly trade The Minny trade is ridiculous, and they won't be looking to move Rossi Copper aint being traded But other than that, cool

TATAS

Stop

Next AA. He'll wash out.

Id argue howre u gonna do it? We dont have the cash or the assets

Youn mean Kris Draper?

4th line grinder = i wreck shop

I just realized Ken made his son assistant GM of the Oilers lol and his kid was working for the Maple Leafs back when Ken was still managing Detroit...

Canucks not re-signing Casey DeSmith. Id like this pickup for us. Cheap reliable backup goalie. Can step in if Lyon or Husso falter.

My guess is Holland was a better manager than he was a scout. Hence why he was promoted from amatuer scout to scouting director so quickly in 80s. And he was good at that role. Again, the nuts on him to go with part time scout Hakan Andersson's pick of Lidstrom in the 3rd was ballsy good work. Hakan had been driving cabs only a year before that. Holland knows how to use his people well. The brain drain in the 2010s killed that man. Suddenly his right hand men were Ryan Martin, Tyler Wright, and Jeff Blashill... Martin had no background in hockey. Wright is already no longer even employed in pro hockey. And Dan friggin Bylsma got another HC job before blash could. Bad people = bad results

Or they have several guys at the same rank. Like if you have 20 guys tied for what you think is the 40th best player, might be smart to trade down and get a buncha picks in the 35-50 range. But I think we're going to be trading up. Yzerman is kinda known for that.

I don't think Seider at 6 was as much of a surprise to teams, that it was to fans and the media. The DEL isn't a league teams focus on scouting heavily. Maybe a team has a German born amatuer scout on staff, but up till today I've never heard of one. Andersson I know spends at least the first half of the season at home scouting Sweden. Not until late in the year does he start venturing out to view the other countries prospects, like Finland, Russia, Czechia etc... I assume most scouts do something similar and Germany is probably a last stop low priority country. My guess is this is why the Seider selection came out of nowhere for the media. I didn't even know who he was until about a month before the draft, but when I did start finding out, I was like oh damn this kids got stud written all over him. So im doubting the media had up to date info on Mo. And that's yet another example of teams not using McKenzie and CSS to draft their players lol. Friggin CSS had Mo ranked as the 6th european skater... guys ahead of him haven't even made the league yet and he's at 250 games played already. Great work by the scouts who couldnt get a job from a Pro or Junior team over there at CSS. Real reliable stuff I can use for drafting.

You literally selected only the mock drafts that had him low, and then used that as the premise of your argument. I don't care how many mocks you read. I'm telling you your premise is wrong, because you selected a narrow amount of information to base it on. "I thought no one paid attention to draft rankings." Ummmm... I do? Because I'm a fan... not a scout of an NHL team? I literally detailed what it is to you, and why it exists, already.