Fuck the Avs. They should pick 15th (yeah I know they are guaranteed no worse than 8th).
They have Ottawa's pick. They were guaranteed no worse than 4th and ended up 4th.
Right. I knew they had the Sens pick. I thought they could only fall to 8th. If it's 4th, my bad.
Half full pov: Wings need a defenseman and they should get a good one at six. Oh, and yeah just to be clear : fuck the Blackhawks. (all caps version): FUCK THE BLACKHAWKS
That may not be the case. Bowen Byram is the only D rated in the top 9 and he will probably be off the board by the time the Wings pick.
Central Scouting has Thomas Harley out of Mississauga at #9 of the North American skaters and Phillip Broberg from Sweden at #3, Victor Soderstrom also from Sweden at #5, Moritz Seider from Germany at #6, Ville Heinola from Finland at #7, Tobias Bjornfot from Sweden at #8 and Mikko Kokkanen from Finland at #9 of the European skaters so there are a lot of good defensemen out there this year. It is a deep draft!
It doesn't matter how many D-men are available in the first round as long as Holland is here. Prepare for a left handed forward per the usual.
April 10th, 2019 at 12:22 PM ^
Lol so sad but so true
Honestly, I wouldn’t take Byram at 6 if Turcotte/Zegras are available.
Now, if they were able to trade their second round pick up to a mid-first rounder, you could pick Cam York out of the USNTDP.
Professional sports are the god damn worst.
Michigan sports aren't exactly winning any beauty contests either these days
Im too busy hating on pro sports to consider whats going on with Michigan today..... nahnahnah NBA Dra... nahnahnah cant hear you.
Fucking Blashill can't even lose properly.
The Wings have gone from one of the best-run organizations in the league to one of the worst and they did it without even substantially changing leadership.
It fucking figures.
To people griping about the Wings winning a few games at the end of the year, remember that most of their veterans were hurt. They had a bunch of no-name free agents come in at the end, and AA and AM really started getting it. So do Bertuzzi. You can't tell young players to go out and tank. I don't think any teams - outside of LA - really tanked. And they dropped out of the top three. I'm just glad the Avs didn't get the number one. Frickin' luckiest franchise ever. Gets the beaten down Quebec team after it deals Lindros, then gets a butthurt Roy for a song after the Habs left him out on the ice during a blowout.
All the bitching in this thread is idiotic. The Wings finished with the 4th worst record. They were never catching Ottawa for the worst record. They fell from 2 to 4. Everyone is acting like it was obvious that the #3 spot was going to luck into the #1 pick. We didn't. Nobody knew that. That could've just as easily been the Wings at 4 who got lucky. And if they did what you all wanted them to do which is intentionally shoot the puck in their own net the last few weeks, they'd have finished 2nd which would've netted them the #5 overall pick.
The three teams who lotteried their way into the top three picks were Chicago, New York and New Jersey who moved up from their slots at 12, 6 & 3 respectively. It could've been us from any spot. Retroactively acting like the Wings were stupid for playing hockey the last two weeks is the dumbest crap I'll read today... at least until I move on and read the next MGoBlog thread.
Nothing retroactive about it. It was stupid then and it is still stupid now. This is a situation the GM and HC needed to make happen. You know the players will try to win and play hard. You shut down veterans at the end of the season. You don't play Jimmy Howard every game. You put yourself in a position to improve via the draft.
Now you fall to #6. The game changing prospects are gone, the top D-Man will be gone. So now you either reach for a lesser ranked d player or take yet another developmental forward. Perhaps we can use some of those multiple 2nd round picks to move up a smidge to get Byram.
Good lord do the Wings need impact players on the blue line. One isnt coming in FA. We haven't developed one in a decade or two. Kind of needed the draft or lottery to help that situation out. That didn't work either. The Wings seem like a team destined to perpetually compete for a wild card spot without the talent to make any sort of move in the playoffs.
April 10th, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
I don't get it either. Watching all these young kids get the ice time they sorely needed to improve their skills, and winning some games was a good thing. These guys should know now they can make the playoffs next year with some solid goaltending (not a given).
Are they a threat to win the cup, no way. But they should make the playoffs next year with a little more maturity. The kids have come a long way since the beginning of the season.
Agreed. Couldn’t have said it better myself, Reggie.
If anything, watching them the last 2-3 weeks gave me hope for 2019-20 if they can sign some UFA/RFA Dmen that can help them play with the puck out of their own end more.
Need Stevie Y. Then hire Joey Kocur so that Stevie can skate freely. Destroy Toronto and Wendel Clark forevermore
April 10th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
Draft lotteries of all kinds are absurd. Go by standings or at the very least only have the bottom 5-6 teams in the lottery. There is no reason a team that just missed the playoffs should be in the running for a top 3 pick. None.
Also, it all happens behind closed doors. These people's jobs depend on the league making money. They could easily decide what happens. I cannot trust it. This is not sour grapes from last night, I've always thought it was an insane way to do this.
I get what you're saying but teams have actively tanked to get the #1 overall pick before, i.e.: the 83-84 Pittsburgh Penguins
Teams still actively tank to get the #1 pick. See the Philadelphia 76'ers for most of the last 5-6 years. Lottery or not teams are still going to go the tank route when they have little else going for them.