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    Eric Andrews
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    Each day over the next month leading up to the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, held on June 22 in Dallas, we will be taking a look at the top 31 prospects avail
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    #7330
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    The Hawks are in a very good position in this draft, the top talent Dahlin, Svchnikov, Tkachuk, and Zadina will all be gone. The next 10 to 15 picks are all projects of some sort, size, skating, scoring, adapting to smaller rink in North America, where does their game translate to the NHL and discipline are all the question marks of the second tier. The Hawks could trade down and get a similar player plus a pick if their guy goes before #8, and I wouldn’t count this out of the offer is good enough. With no second rounder, thanks to the abhorrent trade with Montreal for Dannault (a player the Hawks could really use right now), picking up a second or an additional 3rd rounder could help rebuild this team in a few years, or supply the player needed for a trade. The number 8 pick may be a few years away especially if they choose a defenseman. So the 8th pick is more about future than next year, as is most of the rest of the draft. However, I do like this Walstrom kid, and with a little luck he could be a Saad like right wing(6’1″ 205lbs.) and could be NHL ready by mid season as there isn’t much NHL talent infront of him on the Hawks roster right now.

    #7335

    [quote quote=7330]The Hawks are in a very good position in this draft, the top talent Dahlin, Svchnikov, Tkachuk, and Zadina will all be gone. The number 8 pick may be a few years away especially if they choose a defenseman. So the 8th pick is more about future than next year, as is most of the rest of the draft. However, I do like this Walstrom kid, and with a little luck he could be a Saad like right wing(6’1″ 205lbs.) and could be NHL ready by mid season as there isn’t much NHL talent infront of him on the Hawks roster right now.

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    I just want to say, the only thing set in stone is that Dahlin goes first overall.

    Just because a dozen Drafting loudmouths (myself included) have presents you with bunch of lists that  all I all look fairly similar in the top ten, that DOESN’T MEAN that is THE WAY this DRAFT GOES.

    I have already heard that Montreal in their quest to fill a long term need at centre might select Jesperi
    Kotkaniemi. And I don’t mean by a trade down because there’s interest in more than one club as he has emerged as the best big centre prospect in a class  that has no other possible first line centres.

    Furthermore both Evan Bouchard and Noah Dobson are looking like guys off the board quicker than most expected after they made their lists. Bouchard is understandable because he is close, but Dobson is far from close and far from “head quick” to be considered a sure-fire solution, just a potential solution…yet teams are interested in lower slots.

    This entire defenseman class has garnished SO much interest, I will go on the line now, and tell you I could see Zadina,and Tkachuk lasting a bit longer than expected…or not.

    And Svechnikov, well he won’t be there for the Blackhawks but what we can hope is that there is slippage at the forward position that aids the Blackhawks.

    If I had a wish list of droppers, I would put Zadina, Tkachuk and Hughes in that order on my list.

    I think there is a good chance Walstrom will drop…He isn’t the fast, dynamic skater and sure he has got a cannon, but he simply isn’t intense, consistent in his interest in getting pucks back and working the wall…more of a perimeter player who WILL get in dirty areas when he has a chance too score but not to work…the consensus is he is a top six guy with upside, but you prepare for a downgrade to top nine forward by HAVING a strong defensive commitment and be a better defensive player…so Saad comparison doesn’t work on BOTH ends…OW>BS as an attacker/scorer, BS>OW as a big man who can handle “involvement.”

    Just my two cents…

    and Danault is not special and the Playoff trade was a horrible one but he isn’t gonna be a top six guy for any team but on lacking forwards like the Habs…

    #7336

    And here is my take on Kaut, he is sort good in all areas but not great.

    Right now on my board, he goes first in the second round:

     

    High-end skater with top end speed, separation, and skills. Uses his elite puck handling and stick skills to blow out of his defensive zone, and will back up the defenders when he quickly gets to attacking zone blueline. Lethal shooter who can target the corners, jump on the rebounds and even deflect shots from the point. Has a deceptive way of stickhandling and diguising whenhe going to release his shots, and will use defenders as screens in the process. Very imaginative in his strategies and passes. There is much to like, but seems a bit disinterested in his own end and when his team gets behind or out-matched.

    –Bill Placzek–

    #7339

    In my profile of Wahlstrom, I said that IF there was a possibility he could be turned into a cent reman, then his value would go up. He hasn’t played there in a Long while, and there was no need with next year’s 1st overall Hughes centering him this season, but he is better he doesn’t have to get in the dirty areas along the walls.

    #7342

    [quote quote=7330] The Hawks could trade down and get a similar player plus a pick if their guy goes before #8,

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    The fatal flaw in this idea is that their is one guy at slot 8.

    In my  humble opinion, they get a fine prospect at 8.

    And after the top dozen, there starts to be a whole lot more risk over reward, and the there is less chance of getting a top end prospect who even if he doesn’t work up to the first line first pair lofty expectations, the guys you get in the top ten WILL play.

    It isn’t like the old days when you saw SO MANY flat lines, as kids didn’t progress. Nowadays they have many parts down, have advisors and are in conditioning programs. Sure, a guy taken in the mid first may be the guy who emerges as best player in the crop, but that is more about the nature of drafting 18 year olds and some just seem to blossom towards their highest levels of promise in those later developmental years. What you DO know about the top ten is they skate pretty darn well, they think fast at the junior level which translates to thinking faster when they do arrive at the quick think/react NHL, and the scorers need refining not developing.

     

     

    #7343

    [quote quote=7330] The Hawks could trade down and get a similar player plus a pick if their guy goes before #8,

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    The fatal flaw in this idea is that there is one guy at slot 8. They know who on their short list will and they arranged best player available.

    When they wanted Tom Wilson, and took Teuvo, they only pouted after Wilson was taken and then moved to Teravainen; when Habs took Ryan Poehling, they promptly traded out and further up because they figured no one else had Henri Jokiharju ranked that high, because he needed LOTS more development, so don’t believe the hype about him walking in and winning a job just yet. (and if Jokiharju WAS taken there was still three nice forward options in Eeli Tolvanen, Kole Lind and big Klim Kostin.

    In my  humble opinion, they get a fine prospect at 8.

    And after the top dozen, there starts to be a whole lot more risk over reward, and the there is less chance of getting a top end prospect who even if he doesn’t work up to the first line first pair lofty expectations, the guys you get in the top ten WILL play.

    It isn’t like the old days when you saw SO MANY flat lines, as kids didn’t progress. Nowadays they have many parts down, have advisors and are in conditioning programs. Sure, a guy taken in the mid first may be the guy who emerges as best player in the crop, but that is more about the nature of drafting 18 year olds and some just seem to blossom towards their highest levels of promise in those later developmental years. What you DO know about the top ten is they skate pretty darn well, they think fast at the junior level which translates to thinking faster when they do arrive at the quick think/react NHL, and the scorers need refining not developing.

     

     

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