Dabura

Yeah, basically a pure scorer with significant question marks. I didn't like him as a 1st-round pick but I'd be ok with using a 2nd on him. 1:00 PM EST.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/06/22/moritz-seider-steve-yzerman-detroit-red-wings/1533076001/

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2019/06/21/detroit-red-wings-moritz-seider-2019-nhl-draft/1524751001/

https://wingsnation.com/2019/06/12/nhl-draft-prospect-profile-20-moritz-seider/ I think people are sleeping on his scoring upside.

no problemo

https://thehockeywriters.com/2019-nhl-draft-red-wings-pick-moritz-seider-sixth-overall https://thehockeywriters.com/moritz-seider-2019-nhl-draft-prospect-profile/

Preds took him.

https://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2019/6/21/18703739/reaction-red-wings-first-round-is-baffling Imagine being this guy.

We've taken a gigantic step towards being able to rosterbate about a future Red Wings blue line without feeling like pipe-dreaming dinguses. It sort of goes back to what I was talking about earlier re: Justin Faulk. If we take a forward at 6, I'm not really thinking about what our blue line could look like in a year or two with the addition of a guy like Faulk or Trouba or Gardiner or whatever. But all of a sudden we now have a high-end defense prospect who's arguably NHL-ready right now (though, he's almost certainly not making the jump this season) and who we can describe as a potential future 1D without sounding like delusional homers. We now have Seider, Hronek, Cholowski, McIsaac, Lindstrom. Put a high-profile UFA or two in the mix and we might finally have a legit defense corps.

Honestly, I really like the pick. I like it because I love the player, yes, but I also like it because Yzerman knows how important this pick is and you could argue he had every reason in the world not to select Seider if he wasn't fully 100% sure that he's His Guy. Passing on all those good forwards that were available, including Cozens -- who would seem to fit Yzerman's drafting history to a T -- means he's beyond sold on Seider. That, to me, is very exciting. Seider's absolute ceiling is something like a Victor Hedman monster 1D. You know who has unique insight into Hedman himself and, one would assume, defense prospects in that general mold? Steve Yzerman. Steve Yzerman wants a Hedman and Wings fans have been wet-dreaming about finding a Red Wings version of Hedman for the better part of a decade. No one had Chicago taking Dach, so the fact that E X P E R T S are questioning the pick means nothing to me. Though, if we're going to defer to E X P E R T S, Craig Button and some others had Seider going only a few spots after we took him. So I'm not sure you can even call it a true stretch pick. Maybe to E X P E R T S who didn't even consider the possibility that he could go as high as 6th, but many of the E X P E R T S live in their own self-constructed realities, which is why they get so many picks wrong every year. What we were (and weren't) hearing about Seider over the course of the past year doesn't really have any bearing on what our scouts and GM think of Seider.

We say this about high picks every year. The fact that we very rarely see teams trade down from within the top ten leads me to believe it's not as easy as we think it is. I suspect it's also about committing to your guy. If he's your guy, you take him. Don't make him wait a couple more spots because you want a 5th round pick.

I'm all for it. High floor, blank check ceiling (imo). Let's go.

Mom Seider: 20/10

OH SNAP SEIDER

Here we go...

Mom Turcotte: NA, no GILFs allowed, GTFO

Gimme dat Zegras.

Kings select Turcotte.

4/10. Bad hair.

They're gonna cut to commercials after the Kings make their pick, aren't they.

I'd take Zegras over Turcotte, but I'm up for anything. Bring it on.

Avs select Byram. The Byram dream is dead, long live the Byram dream.

Yell "LAZY AND SUCKS"