krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 1. Filip Zadina / Moritz Seider 2. Quinn Hughes / Trevor Zegras 3. Evan Bouchard / Dylan Cozens Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akakabuto 1,748 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 It's easy to see why you would wanna vote for option nr 2 here with Hughes great season at Michigan and the promise he showed at his short NHL stint last season. But I think we have a great offensive RHD prospect in Hronek so I don't mourn that we didn't have the chance to pick him very much. Still have big hopes for Zadina too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 21 minutes ago, Akakabuto said: It's easy to see why you would wanna vote for option nr 2 here with Hughes great season at Michigan and the promise he showed at his short NHL stint last season. But I think we have a great offensive RHD prospect in Hronek so I don't mourn that we didn't have the chance to pick him very much. Still have big hopes for Zadina too. Hughes is a LHD prospect. To be honest, option 2 would be 3rd on my list. For me, it's a toss up between what we currently have in Zadina / Seider and what we could have had in Bouchard / Cozens. I'm very happy with our last two 6th overall picks. Just curious to see how others feel about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LeftWinger 4,949 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 (edited) i like Zadina, but I feel we are going to regret each day we didn't draft Hughes. With Yzerman so in love with Seider, it could/should have possibly been Hughes/Seider. Imagine that! Let's hope Zadina starts filling the nets, to the tune if 40 goals, because Holland passed on a few NHL defensemen with that pick. Edited July 7, 2019 by LeftWinger Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
derblaueClaus 1,668 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 I think Zegras would have been a perfect fit here, hence my choice. Seider/Zadina is a very very close second, only because I'm not sure how good Zadina will turn out and we already have scoring wingers, but not enough playmaking centers. With his and Seiders potential however, I might look like an idiot for that vote here a few years down the road. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akakabuto 1,748 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, krsmith17 said: Hughes is a LHD prospect. oops. 1 hour ago, Akakabuto said: that we didn't have the chance to pick him very much Just ignore my post entirely. Just saw that he was elected right after us too. This must be some sort of a Mandela effect. Edited July 7, 2019 by Akakabuto Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jonas Mahonas 1,872 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 Jack Hughes is money. 1 Euro_Twins reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dabura 12,207 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 Quinn Hughes / Moritz Seider 3 1 derblaueClaus, Euro_Twins, LeftWinger and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Dabura said: Quinn Hughes / Moritz Seider That wasn't an option... There's always one f***ing a**hole... If we're doing that though, Bouchard > Hughes... Fight me! 1 3 derblaueClaus, Akakabuto, Euro_Twins and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LeftWinger 4,949 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 I'm gonna go with: Zadina-Zegres-Cozens Hughes-Bouchard Now THAT'S a starting lineup! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dabura 12,207 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 20 hours ago, krsmith17 said: That wasn't an option... There's always one f***ing a**hole... If we're doing that though, Bouchard > Hughes... Fight me! I just think it's sort of cosmically funny that Hughes-Seider is, in theory, a perfect D pairing. LH-RH. Hughes is your prototypical tiny rover guy and Seider is your prototypical big-bodied two-way workhorse. 1 Akakabuto reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Dabura said: I just think it's sort of cosmically funny that Hughes-Seider is, in theory, a perfect D pairing. LH-RH. Hughes is your prototypical tiny rover guy and Seider is your prototypical big-bodied two-way workhorse. In an ideal world we would have three pairs with a lefty / righty combo, but I don't think it's a must. Assuming one of Seider or Hronek could play on the left side, I think that could potentially be a very good top pair in a few years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 On 7/7/2019 at 5:05 AM, krsmith17 said: 1. Filip Zadina / Moritz Seider 2. Quinn Hughes / Trevor Zegras 3. Evan Bouchard / Dylan Cozens 1. Marry 2. f*** 3. Kill 1 1 krsmith17 and kipwinger reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akakabuto 1,748 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 35 minutes ago, krsmith17 said: In an ideal world we would have three pairs with a lefty / righty combo, but I don't think it's a must. Assuming one of Seider or Hronek could play on the left side, I think that could potentially be a very good top pair in a few years. So from not having a decent rhd for years we sre suddenly going to play them on the same pair? This is madness! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mackel 679 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 ABZ/Seider Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
krsmith17 7,191 Report post Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Akakabuto said: So from not having a decent rhd for years we sre suddenly going to play them on the same pair? This is madness! Well, we very well could have 4 in the lineup in 2-3 years time... Seider, Hronek and maybe a couple of Bowey / Kaski / Lindstrom / Tuomisto / Regula / Barton... Of course we also have DeKeyser, Cholowski and McIsaac on the left side along with maybe Kotkansalo / Johansson... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jonas Mahonas 1,872 Report post Posted July 9, 2019 2 hours ago, krsmith17 said: Well, we very well could have 4 in the lineup in 2-3 years time... Seider, Hronek and maybe a couple of Bowey / Kaski / Lindstrom / Tuomisto / Regula / Barton... Of course we also have DeKeyser, Cholowski and McIsaac on the left side along with maybe Kotkansalo / Johansson... Ummmmmmmm, Lashoff? 1 Euro_Twins reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Euro_Twins 4,475 Report post Posted July 9, 2019 7 hours ago, Akakabuto said: So from not having a decent rhd for years we sre suddenly going to play them on the same pair? This is madness! 1 F.Michael reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jonas Mahonas 1,872 Report post Posted July 9, 2019 24 minutes ago, Euro_Twins said: Yah, its weird to see see us loading up at RHD. Suddenly, our left side looks inferior. 1 Euro_Twins reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amato 3,210 Report post Posted July 9, 2019 10 hours ago, Jonas Mahonas said: Yah, its weird to see see us loading up at RHD. Suddenly, our left side looks inferior. Jokes on you, both sides have looked inferior for years! 1 4 Akakabuto, F.Michael, Jonas Mahonas and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dabura 12,207 Report post Posted July 9, 2019 21 hours ago, krsmith17 said: In an ideal world we would have three pairs with a lefty / righty combo, but I don't think it's a must. Assuming one of Seider or Hronek could play on the left side, I think that could potentially be a very good top pair in a few years. Not a prerequisite to greatness, I just think it's funny how Hughes-Seider is, in theory, That Dynamic Pairing We Have in Our Minds When We Complain That the Wings Don't Have "That Kind of Pairing." Having Hughes and Seider and Hronek and the others in the system would be pretty swell. Of course, I could flip that around and half-seriously lament the fact that we maybe could've been looking at, say, a future 1-2-3 of Larkin, Cozens, Veleno at center. At the end of the day, it's all coulda shoulda woulda. Sucks that Zadina didn't score 90 goals with the Griffins and sucks that we don't get to read tons of non-Detroit think pieces breathlessly praising Seider -- but I have zero complaints with those two picks. Regardless of anything the blogosphere intelligentsia set says to the contrary, no two or three or four picks are necessarily going to make or break this organization's rebuild. We're working with a rebuild timeline of something like five or six years and that's a lot of time to collect a lot of Pokemon. I hated the Rasmussen pick at the time, but I talked myself into seeing it as just one of many puzzle pieces. Even if all Rasmussen becomes is a uniquely effective power play specialist, one Rasmussen power play goal could be the difference between winning Game 7 of the SCF and losing Game 7 of the SCF. We won't know how all of these futures will/won't come together until, at the very earliest, we're waist-deep in those years. Could be that we get two franchise cornerstone players in the 2020 draft and by 2022 the whole "Larkin is our future" paradigm has been rendered totally obsolete. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
