Who will be our token Czech defenseman when Radek leaves?
If our pick falls in the #8 to #12 range next year, we might be in position to draft this guy. I am starting to lean toward drafting Nino and maybe finding a way to move back into the first round to get McIlrath. Get those two, another forward prospect in the second round, get Petrov over here, and draft this guy, and our core is in place.
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Obviusly nobody can project where they’ll be in next year’s draft… we can’t even be sure they’ll be in the top ten this year. Connolly should make Fowler or Gudbranson available… and if he does it would be hard to pass one of those guys up when you’re coming out of a season that saw Kohn, Reese get legitimate minutes…. and Bruno was on the top pairing… I’d love to see what Nino could bring to the table, but they need to fix the backline first.
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I think they need to fix the second line as well
and I think that Nino is just too good to pass up. Of course, I would want to couple drafting Nino with moving up to get McIlrath. As far as next year, I suspect that we’ll finish between 5 and 15. If we are closer to 5, we should be in good shape to draft Mucil. If we are 10-15, we should be able to move up to get him. If we are higher than 15, then the defense must not have been that bad after all. Regardless of who we pick this year, Garth needs to bring in at least one big physical veteran blueliner. That plus the introduction of Hamonic into the lineup should improve the defense more—at least in the short term—than anyone we might draft…even assuming they are NHL-ready.
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If they did what you propose, they’d still have to identify a fallback beyond McIlrath, no? Because once you draft the forward in the first, you’re still many picks away from knowing whether your targeted blueliner will be available with whatever second pick you trade up to get?
That’s the stuff that would make me sleepless on Draft Day Eve.
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This draft is deep enough in defense
that it would not be a total disaster if someone picked him ahead of us. I really don’t see him going before the middle of the first…15-20. If FL and CLB both go defense, Tampa might get nervous and give up one of its early third rounders to move up a spot. That and the picks we have should get us there.
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