They still land Eichel, not a bad consolation prize.
Jack Eichel
April 18th, 2015 at 11:54 PM ^
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The Hip are playing in Buffalo tonight. That will ease the pain a bit.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:28 PM ^
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At least we know it's not rigged!
When Shanahan was being interviewed on CBC, I thought the Leafs would end up getting the pick. Arizona was the team that really needed McDavid, he could have been their savior.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:29 PM ^
If they tank next year they can land Austin Matthews, an AZ-born player who's widely considered to be a potential #1 pick.
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Well that's garbage but at least the Wings won't have to play him 4x a year, plus playoffs.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
And I thought Cleveland had annoying string of wasted first overall draft picks. Good luck to whomever they select; that team is a hot mess right now and doesn't look to be getting much better any time soon.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:52 PM ^
Crawl back in your hole dick wad
April 18th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^
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April 18th, 2015 at 10:55 PM ^
April 18th, 2015 at 11:55 PM ^
The Browns drafted Stockar McDougle, Joey Harrington, Charles Rogers, Mike Williams, Ernie Sims, Gosder Cherilus, Riley Reiff, Ezekiel Ansah, Eric Ebron?
April 19th, 2015 at 10:25 AM ^
lately I think the Lions have improved their draft picking, hopefully they can keep it up.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
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You need to start dealing in FACTS rather than emotion.
Mayhew says the same draft day stuff as Millen -- meaning taking what they think is the best player on the board rather than filling a need. Face it, Ebron was a wasted pick.
Mayhew is a fucking disaster when it comes to contracts. Under him, the Lions have regularly had the most dead money in the league. That goes back to BEFORE Suh too!!!!
I don't blame Mayhew necessarily though; it's the Fords. Before Mayhew was Millen, before Millen was Thomas -- it's all the same shit but different toilet.
with emotions, not FACTS. Lions were in bad contract situation because they hit on Stafford, Suh and Calvin before the new CBA. They had to take on massive rookie contract and extend both Stafford and Calvin because they're critical to Lions long term plans.
Go find a new team
Troll on clown. It's clear you don't understand what dead money means.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:50 PM ^
Mayhew is just as bad as Millen? Are you fucking joking? Mayhew at least got the Lions to the playoff twice. Millen was remotely nowhere near it and ran the franchise into the ground, leading them to 0-16.
Dead money comes off the book after 2015 season and there will be cap increase so Lions have more flexibility to do what they want to do especially when you consider they have to extend Ziggy, Slay, Warford and Levy into a big contract.
The fact you said that Ziggy is a bust is a joke all by itself.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
Not really... Yakupov was healthy scratched a few times this year. Hall has the most potential but can't put it together with any of his centers. Nugent Hopkins I guess was an all-star this year, but his production is poor for a #1 overall player.
The best young guy they have on their roster is Eberle and they landed him when they weren't awful.
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April 18th, 2015 at 11:55 PM ^
if your league has to have a lottery, then your league has a fundamental problem...
we all know the NBA is a joke as teams begin tanking in december, but now the NHL has one too?
I think teams should lose their first round draft picks if they tank.
jdon
April 19th, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
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Once a team is eliminated... Their point total is added up and the highest points get #1 pick.
Teams can't tank. Yet if they are bad, they will have more games to stack up the points than a team that just misses out.
Assume it could work in NBA as well, by counting wins after elimination.
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April 19th, 2015 at 12:21 AM ^
If that had happened this year Edmonton still would have got the number 1 pick.
Fuck Edmonton, man. I used to want them to get better but screw them. Anything they win is just totally unearned. They have had so many high picks that they should be littered with elite talent, but they're garbage. No love for that organization.
April 19th, 2015 at 11:36 AM ^
They have less than stellar goaltending and their D core(due to management not picking D) is way below average. Those kids would have been sick anywhere else, they have no help. The talent is their the mix is not. Not even close
Yakupov had the same amount of points as Helm this year (33). Taylor Hall wasn't far ahead (38). Those are decent numbers, but more like half way to elite. How about Magnus Paajarvi, and Sam Gagner? Because those are 2 more top 10 forward picks in the last decade.
Maybe they should get a solid goaltender like Dubnyk. He seems to be flourishing in Minnesota.