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DocBrown wrote: Wed May 01, 2024 7:52 pm Stankhoven is sick.
Yeah he is. Every time I had a chance to take him in a mock I just couldn’t do it due to his size.


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Dallas looks to have drafted well recently. All these great young players focal points of a playoff run.
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RatPatrol wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 6:43 am Dallas looks to have drafted well recently. All these great young players focal points of a playoff run.
Nill is doing a pretty damn good job there overall. They are a deep team, built well for the playoffs. I think Dallas, Colorado & Edmonton all have looked impressive. The only team in the East that has really impressed me is Florida.
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holytoledo wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 7:18 am
RatPatrol wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 6:43 am Dallas looks to have drafted well recently. All these great young players focal points of a playoff run.
Nill is doing a pretty damn good job there overall. They are a deep team, built well for the playoffs. I think Dallas, Colorado & Edmonton all have looked impressive. The only team in the East that has really impressed me is Florida.
I'd be willing to bet there's a clear correlation between how fucking terrible the Wings drafting has been and the year Nill left.
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CoconutBackwards wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 12:51 pm
holytoledo wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 7:18 am
RatPatrol wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 6:43 am Dallas looks to have drafted well recently. All these great young players focal points of a playoff run.
Nill is doing a pretty damn good job there overall. They are a deep team, built well for the playoffs. I think Dallas, Colorado & Edmonton all have looked impressive. The only team in the East that has really impressed me is Florida.
I'd be willing to bet there's a clear correlation between how fucking terrible the Wings drafting has been and the year Nill left.
Nill left in April 2013. We drafted Mantha & Bert in that draft. I’m not really sure who stayed and who went in the drafting & scouting department then. From 2014 on we have basically sucked at drafting/development.

I think our 2021 draft class still has a shot at looking really good. I mean at least 3 of the 8 picks look to be on target to have an NHL career, but 2 are top 15 picks. So even then that’s not saying much.

2018 is so-so, but that Zadina pick at the top just makes it look like a bust of a draft so far - and time is basically up on that class.

2019 had 10 picks. Seider seems to be the only pick of consequence. Might get something out of Johanson, but not a home run. Out of 31 second rounders in 2019 only 10 have not played in the NHL yet. We have 3 of those 10. That’s just pathetic.

2020 has 12 picks. Raymond is the real deal. You’d expect nothing less at #4. A lot of us were pushing for a C there - myself included - and it’s good we went BPA. Of the remaining 11 picks Wallinder seems to be the only one that there’s much hope left for. Maybe Bednar too.
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Bert dove and Marchand got 2 minutes
Are the tables turning?
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Boston sucking ass the last two games.
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Those Bruins looked slow... like they didn't want to get the puck
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I think they are just setting up the perfectly hilarious scenario where Toronto is leading in the 3rd period of Game 7 only to lose in a ridiculous disaster. And fans in Toronto will be crying and I will be joyously licking up their salty tears....
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The Maple Leafs are doing it all over again to their fanbase.

I don't even know who I want to lose.

Probably the Bruins at this point. I'm sick of the Bruins and fuck Marchand into the stratosphere.
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