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2024 Draft

LesCanadiens said:
Well, with LIndstrom we have a bigger issue now (no pun intended). And that is the fact he only played 32 games this year. There is no way we take a chance on him especially with our injury history. Besides that though, I personally don't see translatable "skill" with him. And I watched him this year. And especially in the playoffs. He played mean and tough when he wanted vs smaller players. But became very shy anytime Fabrizi was near him. I like this kid. I just don't see the upside you and others do. And a bad back enough to miss most of the season seals the deal. I do like Eiserman though, I just feel Catton is a far more well rounded player and clearly higher skilled overall. If he didn't have all the personal issues, I also like Connelly. Very, very skilled. 6'1", super fast skater and eilte hands, vision, playmaking and hockey IQ.
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I don't see how the Habs can pass up the chance to take Eiserman if he's available.
 
We’ll be at 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9.

1, 2 and 9 are very unlikely.

The expected outcome is currently 5, but 6, 7 and 8 are also reasonably probable.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Bill Gates was born into wealth. His father was a partner in a law firm and his mother was on the board of directors for a bank. My dad was in sales and my mom was an RN who got married in 1961 and didn't buy their first house until 1974. The only reason we were even a 2 car family was because my dad's sales gig included a company car. So no, not a family like mine at all.

Bezos' parents may not have been Gates rich but they were rich enough to send Master Jeffrey to Princeton and to give him $300K to help him start Amazon. If my folks had $300K lying around they'd have had a pit bull guarding it. I couldn't afford to go to the small Ivy college in Connecticut that I wanted to attend. Even going to Carleton journalism school would have broken the bank for me. Instead I had to go to raggedy-ass Concordia University with it's $400/year tuition and had to work a part time job to pay the rent. Again, not a family like mine.

The world in which Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Disney came of age may as well be a different planet. Nobody goes from rags to riches anymore. The system is specifically designed to prevent it. And we only have to look at the living heirs to those dynasties to know this is true. Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt were super wealthy during the Gilded Age but their descendants today are far from it. They all have to work for a living because their family fortunes were pissed away over the generations.

And don't even get me started on Elon. He's the classic example of a guy born on third base with Ty Cobb in the on-deck circle trying to convince people that he hit a triple.
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being a partner in a law firm does not make one wealthy automatically, I know I am not in the way you mean

I saw Gates' house, it was standard fare for his neighbourhood
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Bill Gates was born into wealth. His father was a partner in a law firm and his mother was on the board of directors for a bank. My dad was in sales and my mom was an RN who got married in 1961 and didn't buy their first house until 1974. The only reason we were even a 2 car family was because my dad's sales gig included a company car. So no, not a family like mine at all.

Bezos' parents may not have been Gates rich but they were rich enough to send Master Jeffrey to Princeton and to give him $300K to help him start Amazon. If my folks had $300K lying around they'd have had a pit bull guarding it. I couldn't afford to go to the small Ivy college in Connecticut that I wanted to attend. Even going to Carleton journalism school would have broken the bank for me. Instead I had to go to raggedy-ass Concordia University with it's $400/year tuition and had to work a part time job to pay the rent. Again, not a family like mine.

The world in which Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Disney came of age may as well be a different planet. Nobody goes from rags to riches anymore. The system is specifically designed to prevent it. And we only have to look at the living heirs to those dynasties to know this is true. Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt were super wealthy during the Gilded Age but their descendants today are far from it. They all have to work for a living because their family fortunes were pissed away over the generations.

And don't even get me started on Elon. He's the classic example of a guy born on third base with Ty Cobb in the on-deck circle trying to convince people that he hit a triple.
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Bezos’ mother was a pregnant teen, who was regularly beaten by her drunken boyfriend/husband, her second husband was an engineer …Bezos didn’t come from wealth. He started flipping burgers at 14 to pay for robotics classes and was a National Merit Scholar & Silver Knight Award winner for being the top high school science student, received a full scholarship to Princeton, and graduated top of his Computer Engineering class. He joined a hedge fund company who wanted to get ahead of everyone doing financial / mathematical modeling (now known as quants), and became the youngest VP ever, got bored and wanted to build his own company - his parents mortgaged their house $300K to help get Amazon off the ground.

Gates came from money not Bezos
 
Gates other advantage was that he went to one of the seven high schools in the country that had a computer at that time

Bezos bootstrapped his company — like you said his parents chipped in 300K. That’s still more than 98% of parents were able to do for their kid in 1999
 
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Back to Berkly, he’s not that small.
5”11

Some here are still suffering from post Koivu/Desharnais stress disorder
 
Sal_Butera said:
Bezos’ mother was a pregnant teen, who was regularly beaten by her drunken boyfriend/husband, her second husband was an engineer …Bezos didn’t come from wealth. He started flipping burgers at 14 to pay for robotics classes and was a National Merit Scholar & Silver Knight Award winner for being the top high school science student, received a full scholarship to Princeton, and graduated top of his Computer Engineering class. He joined a hedge fund company who wanted to get ahead of everyone doing financial / mathematical modeling (now known as quants), and became the youngest VP ever, got bored and wanted to build his own company - his parents mortgaged their house $300K to help get Amazon off the ground.

Gates came from money not Bezos
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Wehave is jealous of those with $$, that is why all he wants to do is take it from us.
 
Tech change usually results in a new cohort of billionaire entrepreneurs who don’t come from from the billionaire class. Unfortunately, they eventually get entrenched and then become oligarchs who seek to protect their positon by creating quasi monopolies and suffocating competition.

Rinse and repeat.

Anyway, Berkly seems to be like a RNH? Is that a comparable?
 
CH1 said:
Back to Berkly, he’s not that small.
5”11

Some here are still suffering from post Koivu/Desharnais stress disorder
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According to NHL Central Scouting he's only 5'10". If we had a big team up front, I wouldn't care, but we don't, so I think there will be better fits for us then BC, who no one has compared to Bedard skill-wise, obviously. But I'd still take him over a D.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I don't see how the Habs can pass up the chance to take Eiserman if he's available.
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I wouldn't be disappointed if we took Eiserman. However, and for me it's a big however, we'd be passing-up on a player that has very real franchise player potential for a largely one dimensional guy. And Catton is no slouch as a sniper. Wicked release, 54 goals. But he's so much more. I can't repeat often enough how impressive being the 3rd highest ppg guy for draft eligible WHL'ers in 20 years. And again, that with a really, REALLY bad team. Without him, Spokane are bottom-feeders 100%. Just look at the roster below. Junk players after Catton. Just to put things into perspective. Roulette, an over-ager, was a perennial 60pt guy until he was traded to Spokane this year. He gets 108 points with Catton. He's a special talent.
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CH1 said:
Gates other advantage was that he went to one of the seven high schools in the country that had a computer at that time

Bezos bootstrapped his company — like you said his parents chipped in 300K. That’s still more than 98% of parents were able to do for their kid in 1999
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My parents sold their house the same year I left to go to college. They bought it for $50K in 1974, watched it sink in value for most of the time they owned it, then finally caught a real estate wave in the mid 80's and sold it for the princely sum of $61K. Their next house cost $125K. That was 1986. So no $300K loan was coming my way because my parents didn't own enough real estate to scrape that much together.
 
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