2014 NHL Draft Open Thread
So, tonight begins the two-day experience of the NHL Draft. It will be held in Philly.
The first round is tonight on NBC Sports Network. It's a whole production.
Tomorrow, rounds 2-7 will be on NHL Network with picks coming at rapid pace.
Incoming freshman forward Dylan Larkin is essentially a first round lock, Michigan's second in the last three years. Every mock draft I've looked at has him going at #15 overall to.......Detroit!
I really hope this is the case.
The Wings have only picked 5 Wolverines ever, the last being Kevin Hilton in 1993.
Other than Larkin, I'm not sure how many other Wolverines will go. Hopefully Center Ice comes in and posts on this.
Yes, Larkin to the Wings plz.
Yep....in the rare cases where their first or second rounder is a college player (Smith, Abdelkader, Sheahan, Howard off the top of my head) they've spent at least three years in college.
Yeah, plus it'd be great for Larkin to be coached by ex-Red Wing coach Babcock while at Michigan, too!!
/s
Make it happen Kenny!
Anyone have a decent rundown of where we expect everyone to get drafted? I thought we were expecting 3-4 to get picked up somewhere
I believe our 2014's are as follows:
- Dylan Larkin - F
- Alex Talcott - F
- Dexter Dancs - F
- Cutler Martin - D
- Tony Calderone - F
- Sam Piazza - D
- Zach Werenski - D (probably - also not draft eligible)
- Niko Porikos - D
Seems like Dancs is also likely to get picked but I haven't seen anything on any of the other four
So you get drafted before college instead of after college?
Yes. Because you have players coming out of juniors that go straight to the farm teams/pro team if they're good enough or want to pursue that path.
The organization has draft rights to the player. If you go to Michigan's roster right now, you will see abbreviations for the NHL team that has their rights next to many players. They jump immediately to wherever their organization assigns them to after the Michigan season is over, for example.
Obviously, if they do this and they still have eligibility left, they cannot come back and their career here is over.
The NHL drafts you once: at age 18. (There may be rare exceptions to the age, I'm not sure, but you get drafted once and that's it.) The NCAA lets players keep their eligibility until they sign, and their NHL rights stay with the team that drafted them ... I think for four years, and if they don't sign after four, they're a free agent. I think.
Larkin is the only Michigan recruit with any chance to go in the first 3 rounds. Dancs has a mid-round projection. Murphy and Lavigne will be late round picks if they're taken.
LOL Bettman is getting booed out of the building.
Philly is awesome.
While it is traditional to boo Bettman at all times, Philly will boo anyone (including Santa, famously) so I'd just call this an average Friday in Philadelphia
So what keeps players from signing. Do you not make very much money in the NHL farm system and it's better financially to be on a scholarship?
Usually it's because the team doesn't want to sign them yet.
Other than the very top draft picks, most players who play junior stay there throught at least their 19yr old season.
Will more Canadians go in the top 10 tonight or the top 10 last night?
*ducks*
Can this thing take any longer?
It's been a long time since Michigan had a forward drafted in the 1st round, Cogliano and Pacioretty in 2005 and 2007.
It's been even longer since one of our forwards was drafted in the Top-20, Eric Nystrom in 2002.
Never realized that. Interesting that in the same timeframe we've had numerous 1st round defensemen
Here we go....
Larkin to the wings
Hooray! Larkin to Detroit!
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
should be posting a picture of one any minute now...
(edit: I see he did already about 5 minutes ago.)
THANK YOU DETROIT
We'll see this AFTER his 3 year at the minimum Michigan career.
16 is Vlad. Always, Vlad.
I thought so. Just had to make sure. 16 should be retired. All is good.
Only one problem with that idea.
Ba-Bam!
Larkin to wear a winged helmet then a winged wheel
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/28/bobby-womack-dies-aged-70
RIP Bobby Womack, a talented musician and the vocalist on the funky track whose intrumental version was the old Michigan Replay theme song ("Across 110th Street").
Obviously not thread-worthy, but I thought some might be interested to know, since the song has been front page news a couple of times and was Brian/Ace's podcast theme for a couple seasons, IIRC.
Brian wrote on his revelation about the song a few years ago here: http://mgoblog.com/content/michigan-replay-funky