Scouts re-rank 2012 draft

[Gaucho]

Fire Shero.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/50530-NHL-scouts-rerank-2012-NHL-draft.html

[Gaucho]

inb4 FORSBERG!!!!1

[mikey287]

1) Why re-rank a draft after 6 more months of playing time?
2) I don't - nor do some of the inside people I talk to - agree with some of those placements
3) If you average out our two picks, it looks like we got perfect value I mean,

[Gaucho]

1) Why re-rank a draft after 6 more months of playing time?

Just because they can, I guess.

[mikey287]

Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one I suppose. They aren't that much better off ranking them now than they were the day before the draft really...but it's interesting I suppose, why not...

[DelPen]

Maatta was a very good pick at #22 but Forsberg or Grigorenko should have been taken ahead of Pouliot even without any hindsight. On a team that has zero forward prospects besides Beau Bennett that should have been a no-brainer.

[MRandall25]

Oh no, Forsberg talk again?

[Great58]

On a team that has zero forward prospects besides Beau Bennett that should have been a no-brainer.

We passed on the winger, Washington passed on the defensive prospect. Seems about right.

[mikey287]

Oh no, Forsberg talk again?

Hope there's one bullet left in there for me...

[IMFC]

"More than a few of scouts have . . ."

Based on the first 7 words this have been wrote by a someone who am not be qualified to be read by me.

[sil]

Oh no, Forsberg talk again?

Hope there's one bullet left in there for me...

shoulda stood behind him

[Jesse]

Some people might argue that if you don't have any forward prospects that are major league caliber, and you add Filip Forsberg, you still don't have any forward prospects that are major league caliber.

And the premise of this article makes me .

[Pucks_and_Pols]

forget Forsberg, based on my extensive scouting of this class (drinking a bunch of beer and watching the world junior games to cope with lockout withdrawl) i wish the pens would have drafted Jacob Troubda. and now this list vindicates that preference.

[owtahear]

Maatta was a very good pick at #22 but Forsberg or Grigorenko should have been taken ahead of Pouliot even without any hindsight. On a team that has zero forward prospects besides Beau Bennett that should have been a no-brainer.

I agree. Hey, Pouillot could turn out to be the next Letang....but a top 10 pick which is such a rarity, on a franchise with a dearth of forward prospects and depth on defense, I am still trying to figure out why we went in this direction.

[Cr@zy871]

forget Forsberg, based on my extensive scouting of this class (drinking a bunch of beer and watching the world junior games to cope with lockout withdrawl) i wish the pens would have drafted Jacob Troubda. and now this list vindicates that preference.

He was a BEAST for the US of A during the WJC's... I think everyone will be happy with our picks once they either A.) Develop into NHL players, or B.) Are used as poker chips to acquire another BEAST!!!

[meecrofilm]

forget Forsberg, based on my extensive scouting of this class (drinking a bunch of beer and watching the world junior games to cope with lockout withdrawl) i wish the pens would have drafted Jacob Troubda. and now this list vindicates that preference.

Trouba was the one player I wanted ahead of Pouliot when we took him, but I'm fine with DP, he's had a very good year at Portland and had a good showing at the WJC camp as well.

[k0la]

14+15=29 < 8+22=30 = Profit!

The math I just did is about as useful as that article was

[DelPen]

Maatta was a very good pick at #22 but Forsberg or Grigorenko should have been taken ahead of Pouliot even without any hindsight. On a team that has zero forward prospects besides Beau Bennett that should have been a no-brainer.

I agree. Hey, Pouillot could turn out to be the next Letang....but a top 10 pick which is such a rarity, on a franchise with a dearth of forward prospects and depth on defense, I am still trying to figure out why we went in this direction.

Only thing I can see is Shero has direct experience turning young offensive defensemen into power forwards who are already developed through trades.

Would anyone be against trading Pouliot for Iginla even if he didn't resign this summer? That would essentially be Staal, who was leaving anyways, for Iginla, Sutter and Dumoulin. Frankly getting Sutter and Dumoulin alone for Staal would have been a good traded looking at the 2013-14 roster.

[Froggy]

If one dimensional turds like Whitney and Goligoski can fetch Kunitz and Neal, imagine what an actually GOOD defenseman would get in return

[bigkam]

I like the strategy of taking the best player available in the draft, regardless of position. If the plan is to use the high number of defense prospects to make solid trades down the road, then I'm fine with how we have drafted.

Count me in the group that thinks re-ranking 6 months after a draft is just plain retarded.

[DelPen]

I like the strategy of taking the best player available in the draft, regardless of position. If the plan is to use the high number of defense prospects to make solid trades down the road, then I'm fine with how we have drafted.

Count me in the group that thinks re-ranking 6 months after a draft is just plain retarded.

Re-ranking aside, Pouliot then and now wasn't even close to being the BPA. Maata was ranked higher than him in the final rankings. But the organization must have really liked what they saw when scouting and checking up on Morrow to take Pouliot.

I know, there's more to just drafting then taking who everyone thinks will be the best player but at #8 there were other needs that should have been filled with Forsberg or Grigorenko.

[Rylan]

Who...cares...anymore? What done is done, there is no use fretting about it.

[mikey287]

I like the strategy of taking the best player available in the draft, regardless of position. If the plan is to use the high number of defense prospects to make solid trades down the road, then I'm fine with how we have drafted.

Count me in the group that thinks re-ranking 6 months after a draft is just plain retarded.

Re-ranking aside, Pouliot then and now wasn't even close to being the BPA.

Just because we keep repeating this, doesn't make it anymore true.

I really should have stood behind MRandall...