WildCard Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 Thread to discuss the first round happening tomorrow. Mods can we please pin this? Here is the time/tv schedule with the full order of teams: https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/10/05/2020-nhl-draft-date-time-order-of-picks-for-all-31-teams/ 1 Quote
inkman Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 2:41 PM, PASabreFan said: 10/6, to avoid any confusion. Expand You mean the draft doesn't run from 10-6 with an hour break for dinner and resume at 7? 1 Quote
spndnchz Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 Really not enthused this year. Not about the prospects but the process. Yeah, nobody can change it, just not as entertaining this way. 1 Quote
Thorner Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) On 10/5/2020 at 5:03 PM, spndnchz said: Really not enthused this year. Not about the prospects but the process. Yeah, nobody can change it, just not as entertaining this way. Expand Ya, I'm thinking we'll see less trade actively than normal. Edited October 5, 2020 by Thorny Quote
dudacek Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 A GM (Kekalainen, I think) said he expects more trades after the draft. 1 Quote
Thorner Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) On 10/5/2020 at 9:02 PM, dudacek said: A GM (Kekalainen, I think) said he expects more trades after the draft. Expand Always love this. It's bump-back-the-timeline-for-activity SZN. Maybe it'll have merit coming from a GM, usually it's the insiders and they are looking to keep up those views. Edited October 5, 2020 by Thorny Quote
dudacek Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 9:38 PM, Thorny said: Always love this. It's bump-back-the-timeline-for-activity SZN. Maybe it'll have merit coming from a GM, usually it's the insiders and they are looking to keep up those views. Expand Yeah, I count 11 trades already. Things are happening. Quote
Thorner Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 9:45 PM, dudacek said: Yeah, I count 11 trades already. Things are happening. Expand Is that a lot? I was mostly joking, so if you want to do the leg work, have at it. Quote
inkman Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 Everyone's nightmares come true. Five players everyone loves passed by for the 2nd best Dman in the draft https://insider.espn.com/nhl/insider/story/_/id/30039762/nhl-mock-draft-2020-chris-peters-final-first-round-projections-all-31-picks-starting-alexis-lafreniere Quote
DarthEbriate Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:10 PM, inkman said: Everyone's nightmares come true. Five players everyone loves passed by for the 2nd best Dman in the draft Expand So... Sanderson? I guess espn doesn't realize JBot is no longer the GM. Quote
MakeSabresGrr8Again Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:17 PM, DarthEbriate said: So... Sanderson? I guess espn doesn't realize JBot is no longer the GM. Expand But they do realize it, that's why they have us taking a LD. 1 Quote
dudacek Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 Jake Sanderson is a heckuva prospect who will eat up a lot of minutes against the other team's best players. Anyone upset with us drafting him is thinking only about last year's team, not the teams when this year's picks will actually matter. 3 Quote
Curt Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:17 PM, DarthEbriate said: So... Sanderson? I guess espn doesn't realize JBot is no longer the GM. Expand I wouldn’t be mad. Depends on who else is on the board. Sanderson is right there with Drysdale. Either is a reasonable pick from 5th on back. Quote
DarthEbriate Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:32 PM, dudacek said: Jake Sanderson is a heckuva prospect who will eat up a lot of minutes against the other team's best players. Anyone upset with us drafting him is thinking only about last year's team, not the teams when this year's picks will actually matter. Expand I don't like Sand...erson. I have nothing against Sanderson (or Drysdale for that matter) as the pick except I would value Rossi or Raymond more. This franchise needs scoring forwards in the pipeline in the worst way. (I believe after this season Cozens will no longer be in the pipeline and Mitts will be in Seattle and our list of prospects labeled "scorer" will amount to Ruotsalainen.) 1 Quote
dudacek Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:45 PM, DarthEbriate said: I don't like Sand...erson. I have nothing against Sanderson (or Drysdale for that matter) as the pick except I would value Rossi or Raymond more. This franchise needs scoring forwards in the pipeline in the worst way. (I believe after this season Cozens will no longer be in the pipeline and Mitts will be in Seattle and our list of prospects labeled "scorer" will amount to Ruotsalainen.) Expand One of the defencemen with Rossi, Perfetti or Raymond on the board would be something I would second-guess. But with those three off the board, I'm fine with. 1 Quote
Thorner Posted October 5, 2020 Report Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) On 10/5/2020 at 10:32 PM, dudacek said: Jake Sanderson is a heckuva prospect who will eat up a lot of minutes against the other team's best players. Anyone upset with us drafting him is thinking only about last year's team, not the teams when this year's picks will actually matter. Expand Caveat being to trade the pick, but under the circumstance where we are absolutely making the selection, you are absolutely correct. I feel like if we take a d-man I'll be unhappy that's who we are getting, but at the same time in full acknowledgement of the fact that the D-man had to be the guy, if they saw a noteworthy gap between him and the next F available. It basically amounts to us being unlucky that the "best" (in our evaluation) player available at 8 was a D man, and not someone who played F. The disappointment stems from the fact that, all else being equal, in my judgement a F prospect would be more beneficial to us than a D prospect, considering our current system. In a world where there was just that one extra F adjudged to be of the same level as the D, we'd be better off, even with the "talent" being seen as equal. So it's a small distinction, but while I agree that anyone not wanting a D(those saying that irrespective of talent - just purely on the basis of wanting a F) shouldn't be upset we TOOK Sanderson/Drysdale, I can understand some disappointment in the fact we HAD to take Sanderson/Drysdale. It's the type of disappointment that would fade immediately upon seeing the player achieve success, I'd imagine. Edited October 5, 2020 by Thorny 1 Quote
PerreaultForever Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 Don't see the point in running this in prime time when it's a covid remote show. They should have just started in the morning, run the whole thing and left the evening for the talking heads to analyze who won and lost. I'm going to wait until it's all over probably. Free agency right after is way more interesting. Quote
Radar Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 On 10/6/2020 at 6:19 AM, PerreaultForever said: Don't see the point in running this in prime time when it's a covid remote show. They should have just started in the morning, run the whole thing and left the evening for the talking heads to analyze who won and lost. I'm going to wait until it's all over probably. Free agency right after is way more interesting. Expand Agree. Quote
Derrico Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 My prediction for tonight is some will be happy, some will be pissed off and we won’t really know how it went for atleast a year. Quote
LGR4GM Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:35 PM, Curt said: I wouldn’t be mad. Depends on who else is on the board. Sanderson is right there with Drysdale. Either is a reasonable pick from 5th on back. Expand Bingo. Quote
LGR4GM Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 Final prediction for the draft: Lafrienere Stuetzle Byfield Perfetti Raymond Drysdale Sanderson (maybe Holtz) Rossi Lundell Zary Holtz (if still available) Quote
tom webster Posted October 6, 2020 Report Posted October 6, 2020 On 10/5/2020 at 10:32 PM, dudacek said: Jake Sanderson is a heckuva prospect who will eat up a lot of minutes against the other team's best players. Anyone upset with us drafting him is thinking only about last year's team, not the teams when this year's picks will actually matter. Expand I just realized he was Geoff’s son. Carry on. Quote
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