A top 2 pick would be a grand slam
A top 5 pick would be a win
A top 10 pick is what should be expected.


#expectations
- Codes1087

this.

http://nhllotterysimulator.com/

I prefer this simulator & see the odds as each pick is done.
Tankathon doesn't say anything

http://nhllotterysimulator.com/

I prefer this simulator & see the odds as each pick is done.
Tankathon doesn't say anything
- Nighthawk

Huh. That's a good one.

i got:

1 Colorado Avalanche
2 Detroit Red Wings
3 Vancouver Canucks
4 Arizona Coyotes
5 Vegas Golden Knights

The real mystery at the draft is which teams picking high go for need or BPA?
Later on who starts going off the board?
So hard to predict.

The real mystery at the draft is which teams picking high go for need or BPA?
Later on who starts going off the board?
So hard to predict.
- Nighthawk

I think in any given year, the top 5 or 6 has to go BPA (unless you're someone like Boston who has the Leafs pick)

Huh. That's a good one.

i got:

1 Edmonton Oilers
2 Colorado Avalanche
3 Detroit Red Wings
4 Vancouver Canucks
5 Vegas Golden Knights
6 Arizona Coyotes

- dbot

Fixed for reality.
I don't know how but Edmonton misses by a point and wins the lottery.... again.

I think in any given year, the top 5 or 6 has to go BPA (unless you're someone like Boston who has the Leafs pick)
- walshyleafsfan

Agreed.

I was thinking last night about last year's draft.
I wonder if CBJ and Edmonton would want a do-over.
I still am not sure whey Edmonton didn't grab whatever Dman they wanted, or a PWF.

1 Toronto Auston Matthews
2 Winnipeg Patrik Laine
3 Columbus Pierre-Luc Dubois
4 Edmonton Jesse Puljujarvi
5 Vancouver Olli Juolevi
6 Calgary Matthew Tkachuk

The real mystery at the draft is which teams picking high go for need or BPA?
Later on who starts going off the board?
So hard to predict.
- Nighthawk

That's the thing this year. After Nolan and Nico, there isn't a lot of consensus on who the best players are.

This mock draft for example has Casey Middlestadt going at 16th, and Owen Tippett at 13th, where in other drafts they are both in the top 5.

https://www.draftsite.com/nhl/mock-draft/2017/

Last year it seemed the top 10 were pretty much the same players in slightly different orders.

http://www.mynhldraft.com/NHL-Mock-Draft/

Another draft projection has Middlestadt and Tippett both in the top 6.

Tolvanen at 11 is listed as a LW/RW who is a pure sniper. Something we currently don't have.

Agreed.

I was thinking last night about last year's draft.
I wonder if CBJ and Edmonton would want a do-over.
I still am not sure whey Edmonton didn't grab whatever Dman they wanted, or a PWF.

1 Toronto Auston Matthews
2 Winnipeg Patrik Laine
3 Columbus Pierre-Luc Dubois
4 Edmonton Jesse Puljujarvi
5 Vancouver Olli Juolevi
6 Calgary Matthew Tkachuk
- dbot

Still a bit too soon to call.

That's the thing this year. After Nolan and Nico, there isn't a lot of consensus on who the best players are.

This mock draft for example has Casey Middlestadt going at 16th, and Owen Tippett at 13th, where in other drafts they are both in the top 5.

https://www.draftsite.com/nhl/mock-draft/2017/

Last year it seemed the top 10 were pretty much the same players in slightly different orders.
- we_are_all_canucks

True I see, some mock drafts where Kostin is in the top 15 and others where hes in the bottom 15. No real concrete on who drafts who.

Benning is going to watch Mittelstad next week

I think in any given year, the top 5 or 6 has to go BPA (unless you're someone like Boston who has the Leafs pick)
- walshyleafsfan

Thats fine but what is exactly is BPA?
Their is no consensus as to what that is across the board.

That's the thing this year. After Nolan and Nico, there isn't a lot of consensus on who the best players are.

This mock draft for example has Casey Middlestadt going at 16th, and Owen Tippett at 13th, where in other drafts they are both in the top 5.

https://www.draftsite.com/nhl/mock-draft/2017/

Last year it seemed the top 10 were pretty much the same players in slightly different orders.
- we_are_all_canucks

The flaw in so-called BPA is none of the GM's do these rankings.
Its done by a pile of ppl who never ran a team nor did a draft.

They r no better than any one of us doing projections as its an imperfect science & always will be.

Still a bit too soon to call.
- SRam19

As it is on JV & OJ. Ppl without patience only see as far as their nose 😂👍

The flaw in so-called BPA is none of the GM's do these rankings.
Its done by a pile of ppl who never ran a team nor did a draft.

They r no better than any one of us doing projections as its an imperperfect science & always will be.
- Nighthawk

That's why GM's go off their own lists not someone elses.

I dont think it just oysters carol. Both myself and a girlfriend got some poisoning tuesday night from chicken wings. Had it also weeks back from seafood at the casino restaurant.

In my practice Ive seen several patients mention recent food poisoning as well.
Something is definitely happening in Vancouver area that way. Perhaps all the food processed or packaged at a certain facility.
- SMBDragon

terrorists!

The flaw in so-called BPA is none of the GM's do these rankings.
Its done by a pile of ppl who never ran a team nor did a draft.

They r no better than any one of us doing projections as its an imperfect science & always will be.
- Nighthawk

Isn't the BPA usually based on what a large number of scouts have came up with ?

Wtf r u talking about?
- Nighthawk

just trying to be funny

Agreed.

I was thinking last night about last year's draft.
I wonder if CBJ and Edmonton would want a do-over.
I still am not sure whey Edmonton didn't grab whatever Dman they wanted, or a PWF.

1 Toronto Auston Matthews
2 Winnipeg Patrik Laine
3 Columbus Pierre-Luc Dubois
4 Edmonton Jesse Puljujarvi
5 Vancouver Olli Juolevi
6 Calgary Matthew Tkachuk
- dbot

I was told by more than a few scouts at Mem.Cup. last year here in Red Deer that EDM was looking HARD at OJ...but CLB taking dubois threw a wrench into everything. When Puljujjarivi came open at 3 EDM had no choice really.

I actually overheard the London Knights players were razzing OJ about being picked by the Oilers...lol

Canucks will reach the 400 man games lost this year wtf is going on, is it a curse? I think its a combination of the schedule and being to slow and soft, but then again the sedins keep pluggin away and there 36 and slow. Its really a head scratcher the amount of injuries and sickness they endure.

Canucks will reach the 400 man games lost this year wtf is going on, is it a curse? I think its a combination of the schedule and being to slow and soft, but then again the sedins keep pluggin away and there 36 and slow. Its really a head scratcher the amount of injuries and sickness they endure.
- Bettmanhatesus

Bettman?

is there a better line in hockey than Sedin/Sedin/Chaput

is there a better line in hockey than Sedin/Sedin/Chaput
- onesmallleap

Best line in Vancouver...

Best line in Vancouver...
- LordHumungous

I was in a better line at the bank this afternoon.