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2017 NHL Entry Draft thread

I think I need to go lay down, I'm simple not used to this kind of puck luck in the draft.

Nylander might turn out to be the best player from that draft (it's up in the air as long as Ekblad has conky issues). We get Marner in a year where the #4 pick was better than a lot of recent #1 picks as a prospect....and Zona is nice enough to pass on him for Strome. Then ping pong ball magic, in the 2nd best year in recent memory to have ping pong ball magic happens and we get our half mexican overlord.

That's not enough though...we get a kid dropping to 17th who was considered the best defensive draft prospect on the planet the day after the 2016 draft....who if he doesn't get mono, is in the conversation with Heiskanen, and Makar at the 3/4.

Scouts pretty clearly saw two tiers of defensive prospects in this draft, and Liljegren only slipped out of that top tier because he got sick. ****ing crazy.
 
Holy shit we got Liljegren. I can't f*cking believe it.

I said to my buddies last year that this is the guy i want if we finish bottom 5. WE GOT HIM AT 17!!

Wow.
 
mbow30 said:
wonder what that condition is... two firsts and a depth centre for schenn.
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Yeah, that'll be interesting to find out.

And a big part of this deal is also St-Louis dumping Lehtera's contract.

Two more years @ $4.7M left for him, and he's been junk the past two years.
 
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Conditions on second pick from STL to PHI: top 10 protected, STL has option to push to 2019. If they do so, PHI also gets a third in 2020.
 
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Conditions on second pick from STL to PHI: top 10 protected, STL has option to push to 2019. If they do so, PHI also gets a third in 2020.


Not bad. That's a solid haul for Schenn
 
I love mono.

Looks like we lucked out big time again.

The Swede is the undisputed top defenceman in this draft and, at this point, it’s not even close. Scouts say his offensive game is far more developed than his defensive game. He is an elite skater, both in terms of speed and agility, and adept at running a power play. He is seen as both a puck mover and an offensive point producer. No one is suggesting he’s the next Erik Karlsson, not by any means, but scouts say he has some of the same qualities and, therefore, has the potential to be projected as a possible top pairing defenceman in time. – Bob McKenzie (from earlier last season)
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Remember way back in the day, when according to most of the hockey world Brayden Schenn was a super-elite center prospect that was miles ahead of Nazem Kadri, who was selected two picks after him in the 2009 draft?

I like how that one turned out. Especially since Schenn didn't even turn out to be a center at the NHL level either.
 
LeafGm said:
Remember way back in the day, when according to most of the hockey world Brayden Schenn was a super-elite center prospect that was miles ahead of Nazem Kadri, who was selected two picks after him in the 2009 draft?

I like how that one turned out. Especially since Schenn didn't even turn out to be a center at the NHL level either.
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that was a good move by phi.

schenn is a good player and those picks may amount to nothing but schenn isn't a difference maker and if they draft will (which philadlephia historically has done) those picks should help them more in the long run.
 
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