2025 NHL Draft

[AlaskanTigersFan]

I thought we found out that like 90% of the league comes from the first two rounds of draft picks........ If anything trade players+ picks to get future 1st and 2nds.... Just my $0.02. 

[Shinzaki]

Pronman's 1st mock has us taking C Jack Nesbitt...a 6-4 LH shot with a good two way game.  Also mentions LHD Jackson Smith if he's there.

Have not seen Nesbitt ranked that highly anywhere else.  

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

I thought we found out that like 90% of the league comes from the first two rounds of draft picks........ If anything trade players+ picks to get future 1st and 2nds.... Just my $0.02. 

I pulled up the draft from 10 years ago. Only three 3rd rounders have more than 5 NHL career goals. Although that may be a bit of a fluke, as from that same  draft eight 5th rounders have more than 5 NHL career goals including 3 with over 100. And that 3rd round yielded a couple of starting goalies in Adin Hill and Sam Montembeault. But yeah, below the 2nd round, chances of even a cup of coffee in the NHL are under 50%. 

 

Edited Thursday at 03:54 PM by lordstanley

[buddha]

how about the 1989 draft?

i miss when we had such a scouting advantage over every other team.

Edited Thursday at 07:02 PM by buddha

[lordstanley]

9 minutes ago, buddha said:

how about the 1989 draft?

i miss when we had such a scouting advantage over every other team.

A legendary haul despite being screwed out of Pavel Bure. 

[buddha]

36 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

A legendary haul despite being screwed out of Pavel Bure. 

and then datsyuk and zetterburg in the late late rounds years later.

we should have known that was unsustainable.  the hockey gods took their revenge with late stage kenny holland.

[Shinzaki]

Other teams started scouting Europe and it became more difficult for the Wings to "discover" guys.

 

[lordstanley]

12 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Other teams started scouting Europe and it became more difficult for the Wings to "discover" guys.

 

Wings need to start scouting Nepal, Bolivian mountain regions, and North Korea. They're cold and untapped. Think outside the box, Yzerman.

[buddha]

4 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Wings need to start scouting Nepal, Bolivian mountain regions, and North Korea. They're cold and untapped. Think outside the box, Yzerman.

austria and germany!

what they should really do is stop scouting north america.  they can never find anyone there.

[slothfacekilla]

5 minutes ago, buddha said:

austria and germany!

what they should really do is stop scouting north america.  they can never find anyone there.

Agreed, it sucks we have guys like Danielson, Lombardi, Mazur, Plante, Cossa and Augustine in our pipeline!

[lordstanley]

Rumblings in Vancouver about trading for Larkin. Really just typical blogger stuff without any inside knowledge, just that it "makes sense" to the bloggers because the Canucks need another centre and they think from that one clip about standing pat at the deadline that Larkin wants out of Detroit.

[buddha]

7 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Rumblings in Vancouver about trading for Larkin. Really just typical blogger stuff without any inside knowledge, just that it "makes sense" to the bloggers because the Canucks need another centre and they think from that one clip about standing pat at the deadline that Larkin wants out of Detroit.

ok, we'll take quinn hughes.

[slothfacekilla]

Huh seems very random, I thought the Canucks had cap issues but looking at their finances doesn't seem to be the case.

2 minutes ago, buddha said:

ok, we'll take quinn hughes.

Could be available, in Rutherford's press conference the other day it already sounded like he was resigned to Hughes leaving to play with his brothers in the future!