dudacek
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History means nothing here. The current lottery system has only been in place for one year now.
Exactly. Now, there is a better chance that someone outside the top two will get to pick first than the worst team or the runner-up. 25 per cent for the last place team, 18.8 for the runner-up.
Knowing how the hockey gods work, McDavid will be going to a fan base that has barely suffered at all.
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Darren Dreger says otherwise :P
Darren Dreger: In the eyes of Oilers management, Jordan Eberle will be an Oiler forever. He’s not a trade target
GM of team A can inquirer or look into any player they'd like, that doesn't mean team B, who has aforementioned player, is going to trade them however.
Well Dreger would know better than the internet gossip that sparked my post :lol:.
Still, they aren't trading him or Yak. Does that mean Hall and RNH should be nervous?
Did they dump Smid because they think a couple guys who couldn't make the Flames are the solution?
Or are they still holding out for that Ales Hemsky for Shea Weber deal?
A buddy of mine thinks Hall should be the one that goes — he's too brittle physically and mentally to be a franchise guy, but still packs enough cred to get a better return than any of the big four.
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Lots of scuttlebutt that Eberle is the young star the Oilers have decided to jettison to fix their team and it's going to happen soon.
We need to be all over that.
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Baptiste and Locke leading the way with 1.42 p/g. #Sabres prospects stats through Friday's action >> http://www.sabresprospects.com/2008/01/sabres-prospects-statistics.html …
Most of the guys seem to be producing pretty well.
Catenacci, Hackett have to have the most disappointing numbers.
Baptiste and Ullmark are the biggest positive surprises.
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Consistent work ethic is an issue with some players, but it is not the Sabres biggest problem.
Very little front-line talent, nine players with little to no NHL experience, poor chemistry, a rookie coach who looks to be in over his head and a management group who has sent the message they expect and want to be bad.
If only things could be fixed with more effort.
A majority of these guys should be in the AHL.
Even with all 19 guys giving it their all, they are still going to lose most games.
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In 2012:
Deferring to pick Dumba at 7 costs the Wild their chance to get Pominville (or pick Zadorov).
Deferring to pick Pouliot at 8 costs the Penguins their chance to get Iginla (or pick Klimchuk).
....or if the Hurricanes kept the pick, it would have cost them their chance to draft Lindholm.
Deferring to pick Trouba at 9 costs the Jets their chance to draft Morrissey
Deferring to pick Koekkoek at 10 costs the Lightning their chance to draft Drouin
And, just because it's interesting, the 11th pick in 2012 was originally Colorado's and theoretically would have cost them MacKinnon.
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I asked upthread and no one responded.
If you were Snow and the Islanders pick eighth, would you defer the first rounder to next year?
I'd have to be pretty damn sure of the player sitting at eight to give up a potential lottery pick in 2015.
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Florida hasn't gone for quite the three-year everything-must-go plan the Sabres have adopted.
But they did try to do it in two years. They sold off a bunch of players to bottom out in 2010 and 2011.
This was their haul:
2011) 3. Huberdeau, 33. Grimaldi, 59 Bengtsson
2010) 3. Gudbranson, 19. Bjugstad, 25. Howden, 33. McFarland, 36. Petrovic, 50. Brickley
Suffering comes with no guarantees.
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Hurley lit it up the other night for Team USA in the Jr A challenge. Five points.
The second-rounder off to a disappointing start is Bailey.
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With the great numbers they have been putting up, how long until McNabb and Adam get another look in the show?
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What's the consensus on Ron?
A) hired in good faith because the organization believed he was the right man long-term to guide the rebuild to fruition.
B) hired as a placeholder for a year or two who could teach the kids while the organization was burned down around him.
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Looking more closely at the lottery, if the Islanders pick 11 to 14 this year, we will get a second lottery pick guaranteed, even if the odds of that second pick are just 1/50.
What really makes me shiver though is the fact the only time the lottery balls have made a huge difference in the past is during the Crosby year.
That makes me absolutely certain that we will finish last in 2015 and some team we detest like Ottawa or Toronto or Edmonton or Philadelphia or the Canes or the Rangers will have just missed the playoffs and will beat the odds — their ball will drop so they can land McDavid.
That is real suffering
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If you were the Islanders, held pick 6-10 in this year's draft and weren't going to resign Vanek, would you defer the pick to 2015?
I certainly wouldn't take the risk of losing a 2015 lottery pick.
Even if they end up with a more realistic 12-18, using our extra seconds to move up to nab a scoring or power winger certainly looks doable.
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I really think using their second-rounders to move up is definitely part of the plan.
They did it with Girgensons and had something on the table with Columbus to get Domi.
As many have said: they are going to have trouble finding room to give contracts to all those high picks.
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I'd love to grab Reinhart and Dal Colle. That would help push this rebuild along. We can't make the mistake that Edmonton did which is drafting all skill with almost no grit and a serious lack of swagger and leadership.
Or defencemen
#oilerstankingforekblad
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Rolston may see the Sabres bench next year, just to ensure a 4-18 head start in the McDavid race.
But I seriously can't see him lasting til the end of this season.
Guy has been set up to fail and never again will see an NHL bench.
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So are the Flyers. And the Devils and the Panthers are pretty crappy too.
But none of them are as bad as the Sabres.
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If you think I have been saying the Sabres should take Ekblad, one of us is doing a terrible job of communicating.
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But I am arguing that Forwards are better 1st overalls than defenders
Generally speaking they are.
And following that model exclusively, you would have taken Daigle over Pronger.
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@ LGR
I think you missed my point on the McDavid reference.
(Maybe a better way of putting this is "Did you really just compare Nikita Zadorov to Chris Pronger?" :P )
What I am trying to say is you draft players, not sets of numbers.
Analytics are there as reference points, not rules.
Of course you pick McDavid, even if you already have Sid and Geno.
But the same thinking applies to Ekblad.
If you believe Ekblad is clearly the superior player, you pick him, regardless of need.
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LGR, we all want a star centre, but at the draft you cant take need over ability.
I haven't seen or read enough to pass any sort of judgment on Reinhart versus Ekblad, not even the scouts have.
But I do not want to take Daigle and leave Pronger sitting at the table because I have McKee and Zhitnik already in the system.
Maybe we get a shot at McDavid next year.
Are you going to avoid him because you already have Hodgson, Grigorenko and Reinhart?
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Remember, Ehrhoff could be traded and Myers is Myers.
Don't rule out Ekblad yet.
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That Lighthouse piece was great.
Mark Coulson is a guy I can vote for.
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And the Flyers, once again, confuse getter dirtier with getting better.
New President of Hockey Operations, Presser @10:30 a.m.
in The Aud Club
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President of hockey operations means Darcy's boss.
That can't be a bad thing, can it?