2022 NHL Entry Draft

[holytoledo]

Ideally I want the best player available. I get it we need centers, but if you turn down talent to fill a need you're turning down talent, but we need centers.

I’m mostly on the BPA wagon but I think positional value impacts that.

[hiramnicak]

Ideally I want the best player available. I get it we need centers, but if you turn down talent to fill a need you're turning down talent, but we need centers.

I’m mostly on the BPA wagon but I think positional value impacts that.

Same.

[Resmo112]

Ideally I want the best player available. I get it we need centers, but if you turn down talent to fill a need you're turning down talent, but we need centers.

I’m mostly on the BPA wagon but I think positional value impacts that.

If you have 2 guys who are about equal, and 1 fills a need then you take the need. I was all for drafting Eklund in this last draft because by far the teams farm system needs offensive players, then the wings went and drafted mostly D early, and honestly, early reports on Evidsson are he might be better than Seider. If that's the case Yzerman has put together our D-corp for the next decade and a half, and that's awesome.

[holytoledo]

Ideally I want the best player available. I get it we need centers, but if you turn down talent to fill a need you're turning down talent, but we need centers.

I’m mostly on the BPA wagon but I think positional value impacts that.

If you have 2 guys who are about equal, and 1 fills a need then you take the need. I was all for drafting Eklund in this last draft because by far the teams farm system needs offensive players, then the wings went and drafted mostly D early, and honestly, early reports on Evidsson are he might be better than Seider. If that's the case Yzerman has put together our D-corp for the next decade and a half, and that's awesome.

Yep. I’m quite certain Stevie is aware or needs at C. I think he clearly had Seider & Edvinsson in a tier above any available C. I don’t necessarily agree, but I don’t have the info he does and those picks, as well as the Raymond pick sure look great right now.

I take more exception to what we’re doing in the second round, where the players are more closely bunched together and we don’t see to be taking enough swings at C.

[winged wheel]

[winged wheel]

[hiramnicak]

thank you. updated op to include links.

sounds like the entire staff had wright and cooley at 1 & 2, albeit different order from scout to scout. i've grown on him quite a bit too.

[Pop Zeus]

Could Lambert slip to 12 or wherever we're picking?

[Maestro16]

Could Lambert slip to 12 or wherever we're picking?

That would be nice, but the way his first few games at the WJC went, I could see him going higher.

[hiramnicak]

https://www.tsn.ca/shane-wright-nhl-dra ... -1.1748239

interesting:
- one nhl scout interviewed has miroshnichenko 1st overall
- one nhl scout interviewed has miroshnichenko outside 1st round