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Gosh knows how this draft is going to pan out!

Ooft. Here we go.

How long do teams get to make a pick?

Top retort from Bettman to be fair.

He has been sparse with details, and I can't find anything myself.

My flyers supporting friend says there is another of the flyers' Russian prospects who has been detained, possibly looking at jail time. Can't find anything to substantiate at this point.

That is a good trade for sens.

Mate just texted this. What's going to Chicago?

Yay. Got news that the cancelled Godspeed You! Black Emperor has been rescheduled for Sept. Woop. Very tempted to go see Sigur Ros again too.

OK here goes: Wright Slafkovsky Cooler Nemec Gautier Jiricek Korchinski Nazar Savoie Lekkerimaki Mintyukov Kemell Mcgroarty Kasper Lambert Yurov Mateychuk Chesley Trikozov Ohgren Miroshnichenko Howard Pickering Ostlund Geekie Firkus Bischel Kulich Gaucher Mesar Snuggerud Casey

Yeah I was reading that teams are preparing to have him sign his ELC ASAP at the draft.

Britain ceased being great many, many generations ago.

In other news

Cozens will KO someone before the all star break.

Was this in ref to the OP? This is why I like the sound of hockey model. It doesn't look at the quality of the player but actually analyses how teams have valued the picks based on what they do. He says "... I tried to get to how teams have–by their actions–actually valued draft picks. To do this, I looked at the pick-for-pick trades made by NHL teams in recent drafts with the goal of understanding how teams have actually stacked up the value of one pick versus another"

This throws up a couple of models before suggesting a trade value chart. https://soundofhockey.com/2022/06/06/examining-the-value-of-nhl-draft-picks/ Another interesting article that references the Shuckers piece as well as suggesting improvements. https://www.actionnetwork.com/nhl/2022-nhl-draft-preview-analysis-top-two-picks-value-chace-mccallum And this is too mathy for me https://hockey-graphs.com/2020/08/07/applied-prospect-pipeline/#more-24440

Was listening to some podcast today and they mentioned that younger players are exempt from this national service as they count as students. As Fedotov was older he has to complete his service. I'm sure the CSKA association did not help in his case. But I'm not too sure that all players attempting to head to the NHL will be conscripted. I will add a link to the podcast when I remember which one..... This is the one - https://podcastaddict.com/episode/141949906 is discussed within the first 3 minutes or so.

Chap hop. It's a thing.

TCB have put together their guide.... https://issuu.com/thechargingbufalo/docs/tcb2022draftguide/6

For the draft gurus on the board: What's the thoughts on Isaac Howard from USNTDP? Seems like a Quinn like winger. 2nd in ppg for the NTDP this year. Not heard much on the various scouting/draft podcasts though.

Maybe that was the other brother, John. I think Luke is the one in this draft. He plays D.

@GASabresIUFAN for some reason I was thinking it would be kinda neat if we drafted the twins! Didn't realise Casey's bro was in the draft too.

Which ones will be in the building next week? Get them a contract and a place to stay ASAP.

Damn you, that's what I was going to say haha.