hockeylover
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Those two Hunter Lou drafts were pretty fucking awful.
2017: Liljegren, Rasanen, Scott, Kara, Gordeev, McGregor, O'Connell
2016: Matthews, Korshkov, Grundstrom, Woll, Greenway, Brooks, Middleton, Bobylev, Walker, Mattinen, Chebykin
Most of these guys never had a shot or any hope.
2017: Liljegren, Rasanen, Scott, Kara, Gordeev, McGregor, O'Connell
2016: Matthews, Korshkov, Grundstrom, Woll, Greenway, Brooks, Middleton, Bobylev, Walker, Mattinen, Chebykin
Most of these guys never had a shot or any hope.
I sincerely hope that whoever Hunter had scouting for him over in Russia has since been turfed by Dubas. Every single one of those guys (including the “free wallets”) has amounted to absolutely nothing.
Poor Wheeler
it's the possible the scouts were good....all they can do is deliver what the GM puts on his shopping list (big, truculent, etc)
I sincerely hope that whoever Hunter had scouting for him over in Russia has since been turfed by Dubas. Every single one of those guys (including the “free wallets”) has amounted to absolutely nothing.
And so many of the CHL picks obviously from the day we drafted them had ceilings as big, truculent depth players.
2017: Liljegren, Rasanen, Scott, Kara, Gordeev, McGregor, O'Connell
2016: Matthews, Korshkov, Grundstrom, Woll, Greenway, Brooks, Middleton, Bobylev, Walker, Mattinen, Chebykin
Most of these guys never had a shot or any hope.
That's the worst part. All of your picks aren't going to hit, but when you make a bunch of picks and the players stagnate or don't improve in their first two post draft seasons...like, at all, that's just terrible drafting. Most of the names in your post simply didn't improve as hockey players post draft, or were so bad at the time they were drafted that even improving in junior left them unable to stick at any pro level. Rasanen, Gordeev, Kara, McGregor, O'Connell..have barely scraped 100 professional games (AHL + top euro leagues) between them ffs.
That's one of the worst draft classes I've ever seen. Even some POS draft classes we've had (2010, 2011) had the vast majority of our picks develop into career professional hockey players. Not NHL calibre players for the most part (Leivo & McKegg the only real NHL'ers of the bunch) but almost every single pick played 5-10 years of real professional hockey.
2016 (sans the obvious) was bad too, but turned out another NHL'er (maybe 2, Brooks still has a shot imo) and a few other guys who look like career pros below the NHL level. 2017 though, woof.