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I’m not gonna lie and say I’m not a little butt hurt about our choices. Aithcheson, Eklund, bear, smith were still available at 11 and 12.
I’m sure kindell could have been taken with the 22 pick if they wanted to go that route. Or traded up from 22 to ensure they got him. Maybe his familiarity with Howe was a factor. I’ve actually been to a few hitmen games and didn’t even notice kindell. Maybe it was the luck of the games that I went to. He did finish the year on a bit of a streak though to finish 2nd in points on the team. The one player I did notice every game, and mentioned before on The Other Site That Shall Not Be Named was Oliver Tulk who was ranked 198 last year and went undrafted, possibly for being 5’8”. Maybe they should sign him and reunite the trio.
I had heard zannon was a player to watch for late first round picks and reading up he can actually skate like the wind! Excellent motor, feisty, and a beast on the forecheck and Backcheck. Seems like a really good pick.
Horcoff is a big slow meat head who causes chaos in front of the net and is great defensively. I see a 4th liner personally from the 3 minutes of highlights I’ve watched but will probably won’t know for about 4 years as he plans on doing the whole college thing. A kid who needs a backup plan, must know he prob won’t make it big time.
And lastly I was surprised by mason west being chosen at 29. Expected to go in the 40s and 50s I was hoping we would trade up from 59 and snag him. Basically Brock lesnar on skates. A 6’5” beast of an athlete.
Pair all this with a very long day of getting tattooed, caught in the rain, burnt the top of my tongue on hot pizza sauce after waiting half an hour for my damn pizza and I was a little exasperated by drafts end.
Hopefully RW doesn’t a nice analytical write up with player cards and what not. I always appreciated his opinion and data whether I agreed with it or not.
Time for day 2! Hopefully dubas has some tricks up his sleeves today’
Thanks for the Day 2 blog, 10er, I think most of us are in agreement with the choices Dubas made yesterday. Sort of a head scratcher.
I definitely hope we see some more action here on day 2.
Not really seeing much worth seeing. 6’6” kid who plays pretty soft and can’t score in juniors. Very nice.
Rumours starting to pick up more about rust being traded as well as accari
Not really seeing much worth seeing. 6’6” kid who plays pretty soft and can’t score in juniors. Very nice.
Rumours starting to pick up more about rust being traded as well as accari
I trust Dubas in trades more than anything so hopefully it’s for a kings ransom.
I have been a pro-Dubas guy since he got here, but these last few months have really left a sour taste.
-Completely fumbled the trade deadline by not selling more and weakening this team. As I said all season, there is 0 point in competing in March and April in the position the Penguins were in. They should have traded guys and maximized playing time for younger guys and gotten a better draft pick. We even lost a few more games in that stretch, we would have been picking between Hagens and Martone.
-The draft picks last night were bad value versus the consensus. These scouts see these guys a lot more than I do obviously, but it seems we reached on every pick and most of them, other than our #11 pick, have low ceilings. Not the kind of guys I’d go for.
-The draft didnt fall to us perfectly, but we still had 2 good options at 11 and 12. We got neither and moved back in a top heavy draft. If the Flyers really wanted #12, tell them you wanted their #1 next season and test them.
This reminds me when Toronto had 12 picks in 2020 and 0 of them have played in the NHL 5 years later. His draft has always been a red flag.
All im going to say, is that Dubas had better knock it out of the park when some of these trades. Very underwhelming couple of months from him IMO.
I would hope these pro scouts and management ppl know what they are doing but I’m becoming sceptical. I think he’s on a quantity over quality game plan and I’m not on board. Maybe zonnon but I still think there were much more likely ppl to contribute than anyone chosen.
He also says the plan is to make the playoffs with Sid again and he’s done nothing to help that cause. None of these players will see nhl ice with Sid unless he plays into his 40s
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