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Yeah well mister, I was trying to dip my toe in the waters as opposed to full teardown. Otherwise, I concur.

Never heard of him. "Mestis" is Finland's version of the AHL. They were developing him there at 19. Seems crazy. Why not u20 sarja? His dev looks weird to me, but I'm not really familiar with their processes. He was U20 at 17-18. Then Finland's 2nd best league at 18-19 for 35 starts? What am I missing? Why was he pushed so fast? Yet no internationals. We need to launch a full investigation. lol Somebody championed this signing. I can't make much sense of his profile, I'm sure you all checked, but regardless (irregardless for some lol): https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/279019/waltteri-ignatjew

How does everyone feel about Cayden Lindstrom as far as the back issues go? Do you consider them chronic? Between Beck, Honzek, Poirier (freak thing, I know), Pelletier and Kerins I am so done with prospects missing extremely important development months. The setbacks have added up to the point where I hope to avoid Lindstrom. Maybe even Kiviharju and Jiricek also. Am I wrong due to the frustration? We can't afford unyielding development setbacks.

Oh please. Everyone is Dave Smith. Stop with the name recognition already. The poor kid's already being artificially inflated to star status.

I'd likely rather opt for Kleber, O'Reilly or Miettinen there. He seems like a pretty big project just to get him to that. Oh, and I edited above for my fear of Letourneau. Mainly, competition level.

I wouldn't take Letourneau before the Dallas 2nd personally. edit I don't know what Prep schools are like there, but here, the teams I've watched, the play is so systems over-the-top that it's almost robotic. They have close-game successes against the mid-tier midget teams here. But put them against the top Midget teams here, Detroit or Minnesota, and they'd get absolutely eaten alive. So I view their entire league as top Midget AA teams, or a middling to bottom AAA team.

Jecho is definitely big, I'll give him that. Not a lot else though. What do you think?

I'm kind of jacked as we get into our 2nd and 3rd rd picks. We're going to be getting some good potentials I think. That Miettinen kid with Everett looks like lots of potential. Kleber, Letourneau, Mustard, o'Reilly, Humphreys, Freij...there's a lot going on.

Right? The Qanhl is more like it.

And we were a little bit better than awful.

Because that thing about teams intentionally losing for draft position has always been a gigantic lie. It's recited so often that it became a fake truth. Like most things going on these days. lol

Prince George Cougars are the top seed in the conference. Kelowna's in really tough. PG's up 2-0 heading back to Kelowna. 4-0 and 5-0. Excellent G prospect for next year's draft in Josh Ravensbergen.

Great to see the media heating up about it.🥳 Watch how he got ramped up for a great showing vs a meh Wenatchee side. Now he'll get ramped down because PG is stellar. These ranking sites float in the wind like crazy.

Wrong Button. lol

Big win!! /s Great time for a winning streak.

Any chance we take a penalty so heinous that the refs award the future polygamists a field goal attempt from the hash marks?

You're only 20-25 picks too late. And all the other scouts are looking at Button with that, "where the Blockchain did you find this guy?" bewildered look. lol

11-12 is probably the sweet spot for Tij, so the hopeless romantics can savour a veritable orgy of homage to past glory.

I REALLY wanted the Flames to hire Mark Hunter as GM. Put it that way. Not sure how possible it was. I know he could've signed his Knights ownership over to Dale with zero change to him still having it. They are literally Sarnia's (Petrolia, Oil Springs farmland) version of the Sutter's. The Knights are the richest team in the entire CHL. Blockchaining turncoats. lol

They put more emphasis on the west, for sure. imo. Regional bias because it's easier when it's closer. Inequality of viewings is likely. You scout Honzek heavily and then also take Lipinski, his teammate, is sketchy for me.

Barkov is my favourite player, it's true. And I think Hischier doesn't get the acknowledgement that he deserves. McDavid is 100% O-threat though, so that's hard to overlook. Who else can draw penalties because the refs are at a loss and don't know what to do?

He's the one that BT said, "would have punched me" if he didn't take Mangiapane. lol I'll give him Andersson too, but nobody's afraid of getting punched by him. lol

I know a Flames scout that lives in Sarnia. lol

I have a soft spot for PG. I worked a project there for about 6 weeks. Hotels were over-priced and under-serviced. I rolled into one place and the old codger said, "get lost, we don't like long-haired hippies". I said, "aww, that's too bad, I'll lend you some hair". Well, then we got on famously. He gave each of the 3 of us one bedroom kitchenettes for $25/nt all in. It was a place called The Slumber Lodge and wasn't a dive. We'd get in from work and he and the wife would be doing gardening or whatever repairs so we'd jump in. When I told him we were checking out in a couple of days and have a coupla weeks in Kamloops, he said, "ohh, go to the Slumber Lodge there, I'll let them know you're coming". It was quite a bit nicer. I felt embarrassed when she asked what rate he gave us. "$25/nt including taxes". She matched. I was shocked. Our places were like one bdrm apartments. Excellent mems from that job. We called it the Slumber Lodge Tour. I'm more than okay with PG crushing it.