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There was what, one deal the whole night? It kind of makes you wonder how much if any interest there was league-wide to move around.

“We liked player X more, but we instead decided to take player Y.” Call me crazy, but I don’t expect anyone to operate that way.

But none of it is real since those deals aren’t official for a few weeks. That’s such a screwy system.

That seems a bit extreme thought. It’s not that they don’t think he can be a good nhl player. They just think that some number of others stand a better chance. The kid will go in the second round and that’s still a very significant accomplishment.

Fortunately we have now canceled the remaining 6 rounds.

I’m not sure why we have to look at this as a desire for balance. Why can’t it just be so simple as he was the best player left on their board? Plenty of others get the need to pass on Kaliyev as well and brawndo has offered some information that would support the idea that he didn’t sit all that high with buffalo as well.

Just look at everything throughout the broadcast tonight. All of these rankings mean next to nothing, especially when it comes to the NHL draft. At some point we need to move past those and discuss the actual guy we drafted.

I’ve really come around lately to the thinking that the vast majority of this is about player development as opposed to talent evaluation. You’ve got your handful of elite draftees, but beyond that, it’s the right teams/coaches who develop those later picks. Its a fun one because good luck proving whatever is true.

This one’s a whole different animal. I doubt that any of us has really ever stopped to think what they typical life in the Yukon is like.

I watch players like that fall down the board and instead of thinking that some team’s about to get a gift, I start to wonder why he’s falling.

Thank you to the people who are now trying to throw information out there about the actual player as opposed to flaunting their own fake ratings

Well we’ll see how many more teams fit that description after tomorrow.

Which team are we talking about?

I stand corrected. There was one good prediction.

Good predictions here

Me

Well I’m not exactly taking much of a risk with my comment.?

Could a kid be any more Eastern European looking than Kaliyev?

For some reason I’m starting to get the feeling that @New Scotland (NS) May finally get his moment !

They won’t. Owner said last year that they’ll never take D in the first round as long as he’s there. And he’s a meddler.

Nothing can top the reaction when Chad Johnson was traded to Buffalo. Or was it when he came back as a free agent. Either way, whenever the WR caught wind of it

I’d love to see one of these honorary pick announcers go rogue and draft this year’s Taro.

You’ve been reading too many posts from @New Scotland (NS)

Bias implies a subconscious act. If there’s anything to it in the late rounds, it’s not bias

Hopefully that contrast to Mittelstadt will work out well. There’s no question here, we absolutely need this pick to hit.