NHL Draft
Brooks Orpik traded to Colorado
Quinn*
god damn fat fingers and no edit feature.....
LGRW! Nice to see Bettman get the Bluey treatment.
Zero surprise that Dahlin goes #1, to hear the broadcast crew talk about him, this dude is gonna be unreal.
Svechnikov's Mom is...wow!!!
Welp, Hughes is there for the Wings taking....... Are they gonna do it?
They need to take Zadina
Certainly nothing wrong with Zadina, but the Red Wings D has sucked for far too long
They can't score goals either. Love the pick.
there was talk he could go at 3, so not too bad
Even Kenny can't fuck this up, right? Right?
damn it
Holy shit. Filip Zadina at six is amazing. Sometimes need to put umich affiliation aside the Wkmgs just got a MF stud.
Zadina is NHL-Ready. He'll be on the opening night roster. I understand the pick, but I think Quinn's upside is much higher long-term.
He's going to be amazing but he's also only 18. I don't think he's ready this year. Maybe next year sometime.
Now the Wings should try to bundle 30, 33 and 36 to move up to the middle of the 1st to get one of these D that are dropping.
No no no. Give me two early second round picks and a late first over moving up a few spots. The wings need to get younger fast to get this rebuild going. Giving up picks to move up a few spots is a move reserved for teams who are just a few pieces away. The Wings don’t have that luxury right now.
Too many needs to be moving away assets like that.
Zadina will be a superstar. I was really hoping for Hughes but when a gift of this magnitude drops in your lap you better not screw it up. The Wings have a super promising young core upfront.
More work to do.
I gotta say, out of all the league's drafts, the NHL's is my favorite.
I love the set up that all the teams brass, scouts, etc are on the floor together and not back in their respective facilities with only one or two representatives at the actual draft. The teams themselves announce their selections for all rounds, instead of a commissioner. A bunch of 17 and 18 year olds from around the world and their family and friends are in the stands, sometimes mixed in with fans, just waiting for their names to be called.
It is a great setup. Man they booed the shit out of Bettman. Is he the most unliked commissioner? Maybe Goodell? They don’t boo Adam Silver like that. Fucked if I can remember who is charge of baseball, I’m about 8 beers in....
Adam Silver is the best pro sports commish in the country by a wide, wide margin. It's not close. Silver gets NBA and their marketing
Yes, Bettman is the worst commissioner in sports. The fans have been booing him since he was hired out of the NBA's salary cap office. He's the guy that brought in the salary cap, expanded the league too far too fast, legislated a lot of the physicality out of the game, and put spotlights on certain teams and players over everyone else. He not only led the owner lockouts, he talked them into them. He doesn't understand the game (how its played - still), nor does he really care about its traditions. He's a salary cap lawyer. He is not popular with fans, and has never been.
Fuck Bettman.
(In other news - good morning!! LOL, end of rant!!)
I understand needing someone that gets the business side of things, but I hope to god that the next commisioner (which can't come soon enough) is an actual hockey guy.
Of the first 20 picks, 5 are American, 6 are Canadian, 3 are Russian, 4 are Scandanavian, and 2 are non-Russian Eastern European.
Clearly hockey has evolved from being a primarily Canadian sport into being a northern hemisphere international sport.
Unbelievable that the first six picks were all from six different countries... probably the first time ever it's unfolded like that.
I can't believe Arizona's pick. Sounds like they could have traded down and still got him. Hopefully Detroit gets a defensemen at 30. Could end up taking Wilde or Samuelsson.
Well, now at least one of them is going to be available.
picks 2 & 5 in the next round afford that opportunity too
Detroit back on the clock, have some solid defensive options available. Personally hoping for Wilde
Well. Got some serious value in the first round.
Kenny just tea bagged some moneypuckers.
If they can grab Wilde after his longest night ever....
....that's three highly motivated picks in the first 33.
And a handful more in the pipeline.
LGRW
there are 6 guys that had 1st round projections, still available. Its entirely possible the Red Wings come away with 2 of them. I suppose hoping for Wilde and Samuellson is a bit much, but damn that would look good on paper. Holland might make an ass out of me yet, god knows I have been beating the "fire Ken Holland" drum quite a bit. Be more than happy to eat my words.
Wilde and Samuellson would be truly insane. I can't believe Bode Wilde is even there with all of the defensemen taken in the 1st round. Its nuts
14 defensemen taken in the 1st round! Wow!
Veleno falling was pretty awesome too. We're in desperate need of C as well.
I'm in the Bode Wilde bandwagon for the next pick. I hope Buffalo doesn't trade out of that pick or pick him. That's amazing value there.
The Wings lucked into insane value in this first round and now have a shot at a few pretty good defensemen in the next 5 picks. If everything turns out well, this could be a major turning point for the direction of the franchise.
Im a little disappointed in the Berggran pick. He had a first round grade and is solid at both ends with good hockey sense and high character but I wanted two D at 33 and 36 and there were some good ones available. McIssac at 36 is a good pick but hes also small and left handed. I had hoped theyd take Wilde at 33.
Now Kenny please please please dont do your usual thing of taking some end of career vet blocking these young guys from climbing the ladder. With Nilsson, Zetterberg, Kronwall and Green we have enough vets to teach the youngsters.
The future is bright if Holland doesnt fuck it up.
I can't believe we passed on Wilde. I think its a huge mistake.
Yeah but a lot of teams passed on Wilde. The d they took at 36 played with zadina so they probably watched a lot of tape on him. We’re all probably disappointed about Wilde, but there’s a reason he fell to 41. That’s about a whole round later that he was projected.