Serendipity, Baby!

[T.Low 1,011]

Pardon me if this has been posted before but its a fun little read.

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonis...194b&k=6176

[FireCaptain 563]

Its some article about a kid called Eaglet.

An Eaglet is definitely less than a Mule.

edit: boring friggin read.. i found Mule at the bottom.

Edited April 30, 2008 by FireCaptain

[Elshupacabra 0]

"As soon as the Canucks got that pick," Andersson says, "I told everyone at our table I'd eat everything on it if Vancouver didn't take Edler. We drafted Johan Franzen, so we still got a good prospect with our pick. But I still think about that phone call I made. The fun part in all this is seeing how well Alex is playing."

a little something about Mule in there.

[T.Low 1,011]

Its some article about a kid called Eaglet.

An Eaglet is definitely less than a Mule.

edit: boring friggin read.. i found Mule at the bottom.

See how close we were to getting Edles instead of Franzen. If Andersson, the awesome European scout, wasn't "lazy" that day, other teams wouldn't have found out about Edler, so we would have drafted him instead of Franzen. But Vancouver did, so they drafted him right before Detroit was going to draft him. So Detroit took the next guy on their list; The Mule.

So, we'd have yet another great defensive prospect in GR, and no Johan Franzen! Dude, thats good s***. We were that close! And lucked out. In the words of Dickey V, "Serendipity, Baby!"

Now that I summed it up for ya, doesn't it make for a good point? Don't you like to know how we got who we got? It takes a lot of work to build a team of this caliber. I mean, how the hell can you tell what a 20 yr. old kid is going to be like 5 years down the road.

That article's good s***, dude.

[58Miles2Joe 12]

The Canucks never did put Edler on their master list of draft prospects.

"Edler was on a different list," Nonis smiles. "He was on Thomas's list."

Because of Jamtland's unexpectedly quick exit from the playoffs, nobody but the Canucks and Red Wings saw Edler play. There was no video from Ostersund, no scouting combine. NHL Central Scouting had never heard of him. But the Canucks and Wings knew about Edler, and knew about each other. Edler told them.

The 2004 draft was in Raleigh, N.C., and the Wings, typically, were without first- and second-round picks. The Canucks had a first-rounder, but nothing in the second and third rounds.

Vancouver, knowing Detroit probably wasn't picking anytime soon, chose goalie Cory Schneider in the first round. Then Nonis went about trying to outmanoeuvre the Red Wings in the third.

There were rumblings on the draft floor that Detroit general manager Ken Holland was looking to trade up from 97th, but Nonis had no way to plan for that. So he quietly worked potential deals for a third-round pick before the Wings.

Fifteen minutes before the Dallas Stars were to choose 91st, former general manager Doug Armstrong agreed to give Nonis his third-round selection in exchange for the Canucks' third-rounder in 2005, which was to be a stronger draft class.

"As soon as the Canucks got that pick," Andersson says, "I told everyone at our table I'd eat everything on it if Vancouver didn't take Edler. We drafted Johan Franzen, so we still got a good prospect with our pick. But I still think about that phone call I made. The fun part in all this is seeing how well Alex is playing."

Edited April 30, 2008 by 58Miles2Joe

[Cicada 4]

edlers going to be a star in the league for a long time though..

i wonder if Franzen was on anyones radar, considering his age..

i wonder if we would have picked Edler in the 3rd, we might have got Franzen in the 4th