Otown72 Posted Saturday at 02:52 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:52 AM Just now, MP5029 said: I think that may bite the oilers later Good!😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebrewcrew Posted Saturday at 02:52 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:52 AM Dang, nice pick by the Oilers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 02:53 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:53 AM I suspect it's top 10 protected, so 11th would be gone. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP5029 Posted Saturday at 02:53 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:53 AM Crap I forgot about O’Riley…may have been a good move by Edm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 02:54 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:54 AM Gotta love US fans. "Oiler suck. Oilers suck." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cberg Posted Saturday at 02:54 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:54 AM 1 minute ago, Otown72 said: Good!😁 Just now, travel_dude said: I suspect it's top 10 protected, so 11th would be gone. LOL Sam O'Reilly, that's all she wrote for round 1. Back at 9am MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted Saturday at 02:55 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:55 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420since1974 Posted Saturday at 02:56 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:56 AM Calgary's current roster is short on high end skill. Both of this year's first round picks certainly have high ceilings, so I'm fairly pleased. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 02:56 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:56 AM O'Reilly projected as a shutdown C. Just what EDM needs after Nuge is in a rocking chair. Oops, Nuge isn't a shutdown C, he's a winger to the stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTech780 Posted Saturday at 02:59 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:59 AM Skill, production and goals with both 1st rounders. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 02:59 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:59 AM This is the post Holland draft for EDM. And they gave up either a 11-32 overall in 25 (or a lotto pickin 26) for a 32 in 2024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 03:02 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:02 AM Just now, JTech780 said: Skill, production and goals with both 1st rounders. I have no concerns with either pick. I thought we would pick him at 9 long before players started dropping like they did tonight. The 28 is nobody I know, but anyone else I had any eyes on went before 28. A defenseman and a RW. Nothing to complain about. No LW selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix66 Posted Saturday at 03:04 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:04 AM 2 minutes ago, JTech780 said: Skill, production and goals with both 1st rounders. 💯.. this is the thing with picks starting mid to late first.. you're not drafting a stud .. you're drafting a kid with the potential to become a stud .. they all need work .. but if you can hit on the things you can't teach. Then you're odds are better at winning the dice roll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP5029 Posted Saturday at 03:05 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:05 AM Just now, travel_dude said: I have no concerns with either pick. I thought we would pick him at 9 long before players started dropping like they did tonight. The 28 is nobody I know, but anyone else I had any eyes on went before 28. A defenseman and a RW. Nothing to complain about. No LW selected. I think Conroy could have moved up from 28th and nabbed that RS shutdown D would have been a better choice…I know we have been thin on RW since basically Iginla but…with Coranato, it’s an odd pick, a Ctr would have made sense or a high tough shutdown D…but then again, the flip side is 20-50 are all in the same range so…maybe it didn’t matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP5029 Posted Saturday at 03:09 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:09 AM Side note, both Mlt and Chi had a great draft…also SAN did very well too…maybe we could mirror SAN and land 2 high 1st in 2025 including 1st OA…that could really help… 2025 is supposed to be a really good draft… and maybe I get my Iginla in 2026…some have said Joe is even better than Tij… least one thing, I have been wanting younger and got that…and I’m kinda really liking our 9th pick, shades of Eric Karlsson some say, that’s not a bad deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_People1 Posted Saturday at 03:17 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:17 AM 11 minutes ago, travel_dude said: The 28 is nobody I know, but anyone else I had any eyes on went before 28. And to add, it's one of those drafts where the talent drops off pretty quick... separation from 25-50 really isn't much. We still have tomorrow to add at least one more RHS RD. It's still a sore point in the system despite picking Parekh. But Gridin is as good as any given what we were looking at with the 28th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420since1974 Posted Saturday at 03:20 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:20 AM I'm hearing that the 2025 draft will have many good centers. Glad that the Flames will have at least two first round picks for that draft. I am hoping that next season Calgary plays the heck out of Kuzmenko on the PP to pump up his stats so high that they could move him at the TDL for a 1st or a couple of 2nd round picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 03:20 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:20 AM 7 minutes ago, MP5029 said: I think Conroy could have moved up from 28th and nabbed that RS shutdown D would have been a better choice…I know we have been thin on RW since basically Iginla but…with Coranato, it’s an odd pick, a Ctr would have made sense or a high tough shutdown D…but then again, the flip side is 20-50 are all in the same range so…maybe it didn’t matter A shutdown D is always a huge risk. Think Kuz on the Wranglers. They don't all end up as Tanevs. Silayev after Parekh? DIfferent beasts. I can't say we have had much luck getting Euro D here. We still have rights to the vet Russian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travel_dude Posted Saturday at 03:30 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:30 AM 3 minutes ago, 420since1974 said: I'm hearing that the 2025 draft will have many good centers. Glad that the Flames will have at least two first round picks for that draft. I am hoping that next season Calgary plays the heck out of Kuzmenko on the PP to pump up his stats so high that they could move him at the TDL for a 1st or a couple of 2nd round picks. You know it's kind of weird that Kuz is a 2nd year NHL pro. Has that Makarov feel to it. DO you think it's odd we traded Mangiapane before Kuzmenko? Mangiapane makes $300k more but same term left and almost exactly same age. We are building a team that has several Russian players now and will have more in the next few years. Kuzmenko is a god to them. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebrewcrew Posted Saturday at 03:34 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:34 AM 24 minutes ago, MP5029 said: and maybe I get my Iginla in 2026…some have said Joe is even better than Tij… Joe projects to be better and also projects as a C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebrewcrew Posted Saturday at 03:35 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:35 AM There are some really good players still available. Basha, Ritchie, Miettinen, Elick, Chernyshov, Artamonov, Sahlin-Wallenius, Freij, Stiga, Masse, Howe, Hutson, Misa, Mustard 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420since1974 Posted Saturday at 03:40 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:40 AM 5 minutes ago, travel_dude said: You know it's kind of weird that Kuz is a 2nd year NHL pro. Has that Makarov feel to it. DO you think it's odd we traded Mangiapane before Kuzmenko? Mangiapane makes $300k more but same term left and almost exactly same age. We are building a team that has several Russian players now and will have more in the next few years. Kuzmenko is a god to them. LOL No, I don't think it's weird at all. I highly doubt that Maniapane stats could have been pumped as high as Kuzmenko's might be. At the end of the season, my expectation was for both of them to be traded by the TDL. I was surprised that they managed to move Mangiapane as early as they did and the return was certainly higher than I had hoped. I had thought that they might get a 3rd if they retained 1/3 of his salary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manu12 Posted Saturday at 03:51 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 03:51 AM I'm definitely leaning more on picking another forward at #41. As for goalies, I like the idea of going after the older russian kid Nabokov, who played a great first KHL season with Magnitogorsk. He has one year left on his current contract just like Vladar and could become a nice tandem with Wolf in 25/26. https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/651894/ilya-nabokov 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420since1974 Posted Saturday at 04:19 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 04:19 AM NHL.com has Nabokov ranked 2nd out of the 18 International draft eligible goalies. I've seen a few sites that suggest that he might get picked around #100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebrewcrew Posted Saturday at 04:21 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 04:21 AM Gridin is really skilled. Said he "loves Kuzentsov" then he paused, "I love Kuznetsov on the ice, not the off ice". Thought that was funny. His shotout attempts look like Kuznetsov. Time him with a sun dial. He's also able to score from that Draisaitl spot, bad angle on the RW. Looks like the Flames have added a really skilled winger here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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