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A little wrong. There were red flags with Grigorenko and his place in the rankings dropped leading up to the draft. There was some doubt about his performance in the playoffs, speculation that he had mono at the tail end of his draft season, or if it was something else. Grigo was a high risk, high reward pick. They praised his talent but warned about his ability or willingness to transfer it to the NHL. Same draft, Girgensons was low risk, low reward. He was a higher percentage to make the NHL, but at less talent. We all know who won that race. Haven’t heard any concerns re the new guy.

IF they make the NHL. All of these guys outside of our 1st pick are longshots to good extent. Nonetheless, big and edgy longshots are more what we need than puckmover longshots.

6 is a pretty influential age.

We won’t judge you.

May our magic beans outperform all of the other magic beans selected. I got nuthin, really. It sounds like we got a kid with outstanding talent. He slid to 13, why? Because he’s not 5’10”? I hope its that simple. I like me some outstanding talent.

He didn’t overtly quite like Berglund. As far as I am concerned, he will devolve into a trivia question a decade. Total apathy here.

What is the reason?

Wilson and a Tkachuk on the same team? Lots of mayhem potential during Ottawa games. Ugh. Hopefully noone gets hurt.

Crazy ***** over there.

Playfair?

This is always the answer.

If it weren’t the Bruins, I’d root for it to work.

That goes against everything I have ever read or seen regarding odds of picks making an NHL impact, and everything I have seen or read regarding the statistics behind trading back in the NHL. The likelihood of a pick making it strongly suggests teams need to move up, not down.

Yeah, I can’t be bothered enough to theorize what more pressing issues CA is letting go by the wayside for this. You must be putting more energy into it than I am.

Honest question, do goalies drafted as over agers have a higher hit rate than goalies drafted in their first season of eligibility?

Agreed. I don’t understand why folks are starting lawsuits and ***** to stop progress.

Yeah, we should keep up the memorials to people and battles that fought to keep the right to enslave people and count them at a 3/5ths rate. its not tearing down history. It is tearing down memorials to people who fought for something that was truly atrocious. Tearing down history is banning the books in schools that shed light upon the truly heinous way we treated slaves, and the freed slaves and their descendants for decades after.

Seriously? 20-30 yrs ago people accepted gays and left them alone? This is a bad joke, right?

I seem to recall Adams saying he wasn’t terribly concerned with handedness, but the data certainly suggests that was GM speak.

You don’t think that this type of reasoning isn’t contributing?

Did Ken Preistlay play enough games with Buffalo to qualify? He may have had a cup of coffee with another NHL team too?

Zemgus is highly underrated on this forum.

Yes. Except just effective, wouldn’t expect equally effective. You know, what Buffalo should have done instead of…..

Thorny is a Kreuger apologist. 😁

I would rather judge KAs offseason success after its had an opportunity to play out. Id rather he picked up a starting goalie, a rugged stay at home D to pair with Power, and an NHL menace for the roster, but he may be more right than I if he stands pat. You are so impulsive in your want for KA to “do something “. I’m willing to see if what he does or doesn’t do work. And if it doesn’t work I’m willing to wave goodbye to him.