2025 NHL Draft

[AlaskanTigersFan]

I thought we found out that like 90% of the league comes from the first two rounds of draft picks........ If anything trade players+ picks to get future 1st and 2nds.... Just my $0.02. 

[Shinzaki]

Pronman's 1st mock has us taking C Jack Nesbitt...a 6-4 LH shot with a good two way game.  Also mentions LHD Jackson Smith if he's there.

Have not seen Nesbitt ranked that highly anywhere else.  

[lordstanley]

2 hours ago, AlaskanTigersFan said:

I thought we found out that like 90% of the league comes from the first two rounds of draft picks........ If anything trade players+ picks to get future 1st and 2nds.... Just my $0.02. 

I pulled up the draft from 10 years ago. Only three 3rd rounders have more than 5 NHL career goals. Although that may be a bit of a fluke, as from that same  draft eight 5th rounders have more than 5 NHL career goals including 3 with over 100. And that 3rd round yielded a couple of starting goalies in Adin Hill and Sam Montembeault. But yeah, below the 2nd round, chances of even a cup of coffee in the NHL are under 50%. 

 

Edited April 24 by lordstanley

[buddha]

how about the 1989 draft?

i miss when we had such a scouting advantage over every other team.

Edited April 24 by buddha

[lordstanley]

9 minutes ago, buddha said:

how about the 1989 draft?

i miss when we had such a scouting advantage over every other team.

A legendary haul despite being screwed out of Pavel Bure. 

[buddha]

36 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

A legendary haul despite being screwed out of Pavel Bure. 

and then datsyuk and zetterburg in the late late rounds years later.

we should have known that was unsustainable.  the hockey gods took their revenge with late stage kenny holland.

[Shinzaki]

Other teams started scouting Europe and it became more difficult for the Wings to "discover" guys.

 

[lordstanley]

12 minutes ago, Shinzaki said:

Other teams started scouting Europe and it became more difficult for the Wings to "discover" guys.

 

Wings need to start scouting Nepal, Bolivian mountain regions, and North Korea. They're cold and untapped. Think outside the box, Yzerman.

[buddha]

4 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Wings need to start scouting Nepal, Bolivian mountain regions, and North Korea. They're cold and untapped. Think outside the box, Yzerman.

austria and germany!

what they should really do is stop scouting north america.  they can never find anyone there.

[slothfacekilla]

5 minutes ago, buddha said:

austria and germany!

what they should really do is stop scouting north america.  they can never find anyone there.

Agreed, it sucks we have guys like Danielson, Lombardi, Mazur, Plante, Cossa and Augustine in our pipeline!

[lordstanley]

Rumblings in Vancouver about trading for Larkin. Really just typical blogger stuff without any inside knowledge, just that it "makes sense" to the bloggers because the Canucks need another centre and they think from that one clip about standing pat at the deadline that Larkin wants out of Detroit.

[buddha]

7 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Rumblings in Vancouver about trading for Larkin. Really just typical blogger stuff without any inside knowledge, just that it "makes sense" to the bloggers because the Canucks need another centre and they think from that one clip about standing pat at the deadline that Larkin wants out of Detroit.

ok, we'll take quinn hughes.

[slothfacekilla]

Huh seems very random, I thought the Canucks had cap issues but looking at their finances doesn't seem to be the case.

2 minutes ago, buddha said:

ok, we'll take quinn hughes.

Could be available, in Rutherford's press conference the other day it already sounded like he was resigned to Hughes leaving to play with his brothers in the future!

[1984Echoes]

19 hours ago, slothfacekilla said:

... Hughes leaving to play with his brothers in the future!

We're gonna get ALL the Hughes brothers?!?!?!?!

[slothfacekilla]

2 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

We're gonna get ALL the Hughes brothers?!?!?!?!

that's been the yzerplan all along

[1984Echoes]

4 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

that's been the yzerplan all along

😉

[lordstanley]

 

[slothfacekilla]

NHL will see how Bedard is struggling and getting criticized, time for Chicago to win another lottery 😆

[lordstanley]

So the Wings start 12th and can move up a maximum of 10 spots to #2 overall, correct?

[slothfacekilla]

23 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

So the Wings start 12th and can move up a maximum of 10 spots to #2 overall, correct?

I believe so, this has the odds for each pick too:

https://www.tankathon.com/nhl/pick_odds

[buddha]

1 hour ago, lordstanley said:

So the Wings start 12th and can move up a maximum of 10 spots to #2 overall, correct?

its the hope that will kill you.

[slothfacekilla]

First mock post-lottery I've seen has the Wings taking O'Brien:

https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/3281042

The right-handed center is a crafty playmaker with excellent vision and hands, which helped him lead the OHL with 50 power-play points. He's on the younger side of the class with a June 2007 birthdate, giving him a long developmental runway. He can be overly patient with the puck at times and will need to accelerate some decisions as the level of competition increases, but those are typical junior hockey kinks that can be ironed out.

[1984Echoes]

I've also seen Justin Carbonneau suggested at 13, as well Carter Bear, Lynden Lakovic, Malcolm Spence, Kashawn Aitcheson (LHD), and Radim Mrtka (RHD)...

There's size or toughness (or both) as well as a lot of offensive skill in there... I like our choices this year... Seems like any of them could fit...

[slothfacekilla]

Bear was an intriguing prospect for the Wings pick to me until he lacerated his achilles, will be interesting to see how he recovers from that

[Sports_Freak]

Another Detroit team screwed again.