2015 NHL Draft June 26th/27th

[The Frugal Gourmet]

Bwahaha.

[ScubaSteve]

If Hall played in Boston, tweeting something like that would be enough to get him traded for having a bad attitude.

[The Frugal Gourmet]

Not really. They make up the character problems when they need to trade someone. They don't trade someone because they have character problems.

[Jason]

Link

"The second round is a very important round," Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill said. "Most teams have probably four or five guys on their list from the first round that are still going to be available in the second round, so it's a very important round."

[Jason]

[Jason]

Stars intrigued by prospect Chris Martenet’s size, athleticism

“His whole year was on an upward swing. He’s an athlete,” said Joe McDonnell, Stars Director of Amateur Scouting. “He’s going to be a simple, first-pass guy with that long range, long mobility. For his size, he’s a very good skater.”

[ScubaSteve]

Lot of qualifiers in those two sentences.

[The Frugal Gourmet]

Oh, he's big?

Guys, I just found Todd's new favorite player.

[ToddM]

Spoiler:

[ToddM]

Guryanov scored his first KHL goal the other day. A rocket from about two feet away:

[Troy McClure]

Bazzer will like the how the team uses the 501st Legion's logo at center ice.

[slaps]

Never heard of him.

https://theathletic.com/353504/2018/05/ ... y-ranking/

12. Dallas Stars: Sebastian Aho
Actual draft pick: No. 35 (change: +23)
My final ranking: Not ranked in my top 30

I tell myself that everyone else missed on Aho in the first round too (and pat myself on the back for recognizing that early on and taking him in my keeper league before he entered the NHL two seasons ago) but deep down I feel great shame. Looking back, this is my biggest miss in a re-draft. I liked Aho just fine in 2015 but I pegged him more as a second or third-round talent who projected as a depth scorer. I was wrong. He has since grown an inch and a half and become a reliable first-line winger and his team’s leading scorer as a sophomore (Aho’s 65 points with the Hurricanes was one better than Teuvo Teravainen). The Stars picked Denis Gurianov, who I had ranked in the third round, and they missed in a big way — he looks like he’ll be a depth forward.

[slaps]

Ok, now that I've finally read about some of the guys that might fall to us at 12, I'm hoping it's either Barzal or Konecny.

Barzal would be like picking Nishushkin again (or Forsberg 2): a one-time consensus #3 guy (behind McDavid and Eichel) who had one badly-timed injury, and saw a bunch of other dudes eclipse him in the rankings. I really doubt he'll fall to us, but then again, a lot of the 11 teams in front of us are kinda stupid and prone to dumb decisions.

Also, Todd looks vaguely prophetic here, but way too high in Nichushkin.

[slaps]

I feel like we're going to rue the day we passed on *fargin'* Barzal at #12. *Dang all Get out*.

Yup.

[ToddM]

Ok, now that I've finally read about some of the guys that might fall to us at 12, I'm hoping it's either Barzal or Konecny.

Barzal would be like picking Nishushkin again (or Forsberg 2): a one-time consensus #3 guy (behind McDavid and Eichel) who had one badly-timed injury, and saw a bunch of other dudes eclipse him in the rankings. I really doubt he'll fall to us, but then again, a lot of the 11 teams in front of us are kinda stupid and prone to dumb decisions.

Also, Todd looks vaguely prophetic here, but way too high in Nichushkin.

I liked the part where I predicted that a bunch of teams would be stupid.