ok let's do this damn thing

Draft show starts at 8E.
Over/under: the #1 pick will be revealed at 8:50?

Bonus over/under: what time will who picks last be revealed (1st revealed pick)? 8:15

rooting for Vancouver for Qughes and Jughes and Colorado to get Kakko

and Edmonton for the lulz

Gio and Vas are great value. Petterson also a lock, but agree Binnington worth a small hedge

Starting at 8:30, so really 8:35 for pick #15

Hawks moving on up

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god damn taylor hall going to do it again

Terrible lotto

Wow lol

Devils are the new oilers

i wondered why Gary showed up this year

obv it was to audition as Bezos' nba commish if he wants Zion at MSG

Hall is 5 for 8 at getting 1st overall

kill me

Something actually went right for the Senators. Will wonders never cease.

Nah, best scorer is averaging 3 goals per game and is only 20 so it's reasonable to assume he'll only get better.

Clearest case for tanking I've ever seen

absolutely rigged lol

^ should be fairly locked in

no clue what Chicago thinks they need, but good options available between Podkolzin, Cozens, and Byram

their forward depth is weak, and they have Makar coming on D

could go as high as 3, seems like ppl really like BB

kind of a crapshoot after that, not informed enough to have any real takes aorn, but choose your fighter:

https://dobberprospects.com/consolid...-january-2019/


hopefully between Boldy, Zegras, Dach, Krebs, Turcotte, Broberg, etc there are enough good players that the Canucks get someone useful at 10, and 40

Most of the rankings I've read say that it's clear Hughes-Kakko as 1a/1b, then a lot of arguing for the rest At midseason, Pronman had these buckets:

Special prospect: 2 (Hughes, Kakko)
Elite prospect: 4 (Cozens, Dach, Podkolzin, Zegras)
High end prospect: 7 (Boldy, Byram, Newhook, Turcotte, Broberg, Krebs, Robertson)

If anyone's interested, the Athletic mock draft goes:
1: NJ: Hughes
2: NYR: Kakko
3: CHI: Podkolzin
4: COL: Cozens
5: LAK: Byram
6: DET: Turcotte
7: BUF: Dach
8: EDM: Zegras
9: ANA: Krebs
10: VAN: Boldy
11: PHI: Caufield
12: MIN: Kaliyev
13: FLA: Harley
14: ARI: Lavoie
15: MON: Broberg

My preference in the #8 spot for Oilers is Boldy. He took on the role of shooter this year with the USNDTP and with McDavid/Nuge/Draisaitl, they have a bunch of quality centers who are more pass first (it seems crazy to describe a 50 goal scorer as pass first, but Draisaitl took that role simply because no one else on the team would/could).

If we were a competently run organization, I'd be hoping we took Kaliyev. I suspect he turns out to be a poor man's Patrik Laine - scores goals and doesn't do much of anything else very useful, but is super valuable just because goal scoring is so hard. In an organization that could maximize player value by putting them in a position to succeed, he'd be great. On the Oilers, with the MSM talking about how his sandpaper isn't snarly enough, he'll get run out just like Yakupov and (in progress) Puljujarvi.

I assume Claude will stifle him by forcing a defensive role and he'll drop off huge and only get 60 next year.

Jack Hughes is a good ol MURCAN boy who was born to be a Ranger. The Devils have a moral obligation to pass on him.

This is my biggest fear. 60 would be a yoog disappointment.

man we bad at polls. taylor hall was such an obvious pick and no one took it.

wouldn't mind being in the 10-20 draft range tbh

good place to snag some swedish dmen who are probably quite good, some yank midgets who'd be top10 if a couple inches taller, or some russians who'd be top10 if from anywhere else