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Post by Merpes on Jan 8, 2019 14:02:02 GMT
Flamer game was too close for comfort, but our boys got it done.
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Post by garyu on Jan 8, 2019 16:35:48 GMT
Flamer game was too close for comfort, but our boys got it done. Never count them in.
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Post by lari on Jan 15, 2019 20:56:39 GMT
The Senators are absolutely terrible and will finish last. Which is all kinds of funny, starting from them choosing to use their pick last summer turning the Avs' owned conditional pick into an unprotected 1st this year.
The Hawks are also behind the Kings, but with two more games played. The Kings are 5-5-0 in their last 10, so the Hawks might soon snatch that coveted 30th spot. After watching the WJC, I think anyone picking 2nd would be pretty damn happy.
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Post by jimc on Jan 15, 2019 21:00:45 GMT
All depends on the lottery.
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Post by khawk20 on Jan 16, 2019 0:45:33 GMT
Yep. I still remember losing out on Ovie and Malkin that way... ...and gaining a couple of spots and getting Kane. Fingers crossed the Hawks get a top two pick but it's really a crapshoot the way it goes now, you just have to arm yourself with more crap than the other losers in the bottom 15.
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Post by jimc on Jan 16, 2019 1:33:39 GMT
Yep. I still remember losing out on Ovie and Malkin that way... ...and gaining a couple of spots and getting Kane. Fingers crossed the Hawks get a top two pick but it's really a crapshoot the way it goes now, you just have to arm yourself with more crap than the other losers in the bottom 15. And toews fell in their lap at #3...
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Post by garyu on Jan 16, 2019 2:16:48 GMT
Yep. I still remember losing out on Ovie and Malkin that way... ...and gaining a couple of spots and getting Kane. Fingers crossed the Hawks get a top two pick but it's really a crapshoot the way it goes now, you just have to arm yourself with more crap than the other losers in the bottom 15. And toews fell in their lap at #3... So did Barker.
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Post by khawk20 on Jan 16, 2019 3:08:37 GMT
I've always said that the Hawks did nothing wrong in taking Barker, he was pretty much consensus number 3 even at a level below the big two. The org would have got absolutely roasted if they had went to someone else in that spot, including by all of us.
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Post by garyu on Jan 16, 2019 3:11:52 GMT
I've always said that the Hawks did nothing wrong in taking Barker, he was pretty much consensus number 3 even at a level below the big two. The org would have got absolutely roasted if they had went to someone else in that spot, including by all of us. Nobody's fault that he sucked.
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Post by Merpes on Jan 16, 2019 3:46:45 GMT
Getting plastered by the Devils was good for the ping pong balls. I'll take it.
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Post by lari on Jan 16, 2019 7:00:50 GMT
I've always said that the Hawks did nothing wrong in taking Barker, he was pretty much consensus number 3 even at a level below the big two. The org would have got absolutely roasted if they had went to someone else in that spot, including by all of us. Just because others would have made the same mistake, doesn't mean it wasn't a mistake. The job of the scouts is to identify risks and problems with each player and their development. They read Barker wrong.
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Post by khawk20 on Jan 16, 2019 10:47:24 GMT
Point is it was a universal problem, not just a Hawks one.
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Post by jimc on Jan 16, 2019 22:24:49 GMT
Ladd and Wheeler went 4-5
Dubnyk, Radulov and Smid also went towards the end of the 1st round
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Post by Giovi on Jan 17, 2019 3:58:15 GMT
Ladd and Wheeler went 4-5 Dubnyk, Radulov and Smid also went towards the end of the 1st round Its always easy to armchair gm drafts, especially 5-10 years after the fact. You can pick any team in the league and say they bypassed---- and took----, so theyre idiots. Any and every team.
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Post by lari on Jan 17, 2019 4:09:08 GMT
But if you're going to give teams credit for discovering talent on later picks, you also have to critisize teams picking busts. They have a scouting department that should know better than whatever the public opinion is.
Hawks would have looked like clowns to the outside had they passed on Barker. But a couple of years later everyone would have seen their genius. That's why you don't evaluate drafts immediately.
Back on topic, Colorado loses an important game to Ottawa. One of those rare opportunities to positively affect your lottery odds by WINNING a game.
The only logical conclusion is that MacKinnon is an anti-semite and doesn't want Hughes as his teammate.
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