2014 Draft Discussion - Now an 8 hour window

[Sensfanjosh]

I really like your 1st but think kase was a bit of a reach in the 2nd but getting Rod later makes up for it

[Chuck Norris]

Yeah nice job on Leblanc. Was shocked he dropped as far as he did. It was a strange draft to be sure, lots of guys dropping, others reaching. Excited to see where guys land in the real draft...

[kyuss]

I think what you'll see on the 2nd day of the draft will look even crazier

[Nick]

Just BMA (COL) left with a pick to make?


I would love to use it

[Chuck Norris]

I think we were lucky that Chuck had about 30? Picks, and Lee had quite a few, made it go faster.. keep in mind the actual nhl draft has also started as early as the 22nd-23rd

June 1st start date would be ideal imo, easy to remember too and we get at least 3 weeks and a few days

It was 33 picks.....get it right Luke. Geeze.

looking forward to your lee-like list lol

LOL you asked for it....

50th Overall - Brendan Lemieux (LW)
56th Overall - John Quenneville (C)
61st Overall - Brett Pollock (C)
62nd Overall - Luc Snuggerd (D)
66th Overall - Alex Peters (D)
74th Overall - Daniel Audette (C)
77th Overall - Warren Foegele (RW)
78th Overall - Dominic Turgeon (C)
86th Overall - Christian Dvorak (LW)
92nd Overall - Ryan Collins (D)
97th Overall - Nick Magyar (RW)
104th Overall - Aaron Irving (D)
105th Overall - Josh Wesley (D)
107th Overall - Robert "Bobo" Carpenter (LW)
126th Overall - Ben Thomas (D)
127th Overall - Jacob Middleton (D)
128th Overall - Ryan Mantha (D)
134th Overall - Jack Ramsey (RW)
143rd Overall - Arkhip Nekolenko (LW)
157th Overall - Brandon Hickey (D)
163rd Overall - Brandon Montour (D)
164th Overall - Michael Amiado (C)
165th Overall - Axel Holmström (RW)
168th Overall - Julien Pelletier (C)
171st Overall - Dexter Dancs (LW)
175th Overall - Reid Duke (C)
176th Overall - Blake Clarke (LW)
179th Overall - Ryan Foss (LW)
183rd Overall - Shane Gersich (LW)
186th Overall - Francis Perron (LW)
200th Overall - Alex Shoenborn (RW)
201st Overall - Jaden Lindo (RW)
209th Overall - Matheson Iacopelli (RW)

A balanced draft - 7 C, 9 LW, 7 RW, 10 D. My first year not taking at least 1 goalie.

Reaches: Carpenter, Mantha, Ramsey, Nekolenko, Dancs
Steals: Pollock, Maygar, Thomas, Hickey, Gersich, Perron
Sleepers: Clarke, Foss, Middleton, Duke, Montour, Lindo

[Shoalzie]

No goalies in all that?

[kyuss]

lol a bit early to talk about steals, isn't it?

I guess you simply refer to guys that were supposed to go earlier.

Nekolenko might belong more to the sleepers than reaches category considering where you picked him. And montour to the steals instead.

I liked Pollock at 61 but he still looks like a project. Lemieux, Dvorak, Irving and Perron at those spots also seem like pretty solid picks to me.

Lots of busts though

[Shoalzie]

Let's wait to see whom out of guys even get picked...then we can throw out some grades.

[Chuck Norris]

lol a bit early to talk about steals, isn't it?

I guess you simply refer to guys that were supposed to go earlier.

Nekolenko might belong more to the sleepers than reaches category considering where you picked him. And montour to the steals instead.

I liked Pollock at 61 but he still looks like a project. Lemieux, Dvorak, Irving and Perron at those spots also seem like pretty solid picks to me.

Lots of busts though

Yeah was saying steal based on where they are projected to go.

[The BBKL Insider]

meh, no one cares chuck

[Chuck Norris]

meh, no one cares chuck

I'm glad Steve is on my foes list so I can't see what idiotic comment he made this time..

[kyuss]

biggest part of the pie coming up, stoked for the most unpredictable 2nd draft day i can remember.

I found this draft to be really weird. People keep saying it is a weak draft. To me in the 1st round it's about risky picks (especially if you select Oh Sang and DeAngelo instead of Barbashev lol) rather than lack of talent. What I find to be weak is the 2nd round (I ended up trading down in fact) and what makes it so weird for me is the slim difference between the 2nd and the 5th round.
Way weaker than average 2nd round but above average 5th and 6th round depth, so I think NHL teams have a lot of different guys ranked in the 2nd round.. and some will be able to grab in the 5th/6th guys they had in their 2nd.

[kyuss]

ahahah there you go, the first undrafted in the BBKL to go, goes #39 in the NHL draft

[Shoalzie]

Rounds 2-7 will be a lot of fun to follow just to see where the balance of the guys end up. Not too many surprises in the first round...you'll get a lot of the fringe late 1st/early 2nd round guys get picked in the first and a few slide to the 2nd round...like Demko or Barbashev. Any guy in the top 40 for most people are guys that could either be first or second rounds. You don't expect many guys in the 50-200 range to jump up to the first round. Everyone knows who the top guys are but beyond that, it's a mixed opinion on remaining rounds.

[Shoalzie]

Schmaltz to Chicago is very good situation. I anticipated Ekblad to Florida and Bennett to Calgary. So far in the 2nd, Nedeljkovic, Pettersson, Jacobs and MacInnis are off the board. The only guys I'm suspect of being drafted are Engvall and Hayden Lavigne. We'll see what happens.

[kyuss]

nice couple there with Letunov and Ro in back2back picks.. but the Montour hurts, as i barely missed him in the 6th round

[kyuss]

another 2nd rounder that went undrafted here: Lintuniemi picked by the Kings (meh)

[kyuss]

Husso, Point, Glover and Karlsson falling

[kyuss]

fuck i was 4 picks away from landing Tryamkin in the 7th

[thom54]

this is all over the map, holy cow