Did your scouts earn their coin?

[Rink Rat]

The Oil scouting staff seemed to be in tune with Saturdays NHL Entry Draft.

Oil first pick with the 31st overall selection drafted Michael Grabner from Spokane

NHL Selection: Vancouver Canucks @ the 14th overall position.

Rink Rat “We knew this kid was going to go in the first round, there was just too many blueliners in the top 30. Michael is a pure speedster that can bury the puck, we expect him to take a shot at the Canucks roster this year”.

Oil second pick with the 34th selection drafted Francois Bouchard from Baie-Comeau of the Q.

NHL Selection: Washington Capitals @ the 35 overall position.

Rink Rat: “We thought this kid was also going late in the first round. As a playmaker with top vision, and a great passer who can deliver in traffic, and Francois posses NHL wheels. Considering the lack of offensive depth in Washington, Francois just may fit into the Caps offense in the very near future. We were very happy with this selection”.

Oil third pick with the 52nd selection drafted Mathieu Carle from Acadie-Bathurst of the Q.

NHL Selection: Habs @ the 53rd overall position.

Rink Rat: “Mathieu is a great skater with offensive upside from the blue-line, traditionally the Habs do allow their offensive talent to progress. Doubtful Mathieu will crack the Hab blue line this season, but I am sure I will get to see a lot of him here in Hamilton next season.”

[nyrcrisfer]

The Leafs were okay...

#5 CPHL- Derick Brassard. Kind of obvious where he was going to go anyway, but he went 6th to the Blue Jackets. Pretty happy about that because at least Columbus has a history of bringing their top picks to the NHL quickly.

#20 CPHL- Dennis Persson. He went 24th overall to the Sabres. About right and we're very happy to have this player.

#24 CPHL- Ondrej Fiala. This guy fell a bit, he was selected 40th overall by the Wild. But luckily the Wild seem to be one of the better teams at the draft. They probably like this guys speed, as did I.

#68 CPHL- Brady Calla. He went 73rd overall to the Panthers. Not bad, I think this guy can be a good role player for them within 2-3 years.

#102 CPHL- Jonus Enlund. Taken 165th overall by the Thrashers. This guy fell a bit, oh well.

#131 CPHL- Kevin Quick. Taken 78th overall by the Lightning, so this was apparently a good pick for us.

#159 CPHL- Joe Devin. Doesn't look like he got picked. Maybe he didn't even enter this years draft, he's young I think.

[Sylvanfan]

Well I kind of **** the bed.

I drafted Maxwell at 32 and the Habs took him at 49
I drafted White at 35 and the Habs took him at 66
I drafted Irving at 38 and the Flames took him at 26, but we all know that the Flames have crap scouts so that doesn't really ease the pain.
Other than that I drafted Niko Hovinen, Logan Pyett and Joonas Lehtovouri who at least got drafted somewhere in the NHL. But I have 4 guys who didn't even get drafted, so looks like I'll be realeasing a few guys later on.

My only saving grace is that Trevor Lewis who I signed as a free agent prior to the draft went 17th to LA and Nikolai Kulemin went 44 to Toronto. So thanks to those two I did get 4 of the top 50 guys taken in the draft. Still looking back now the draft was a collossol failure for me.

[MJK]

Bryan Little
13th CPHL/12th NHL

Mike Weber
39th CPHL/57th NHL

Jeff Petry
57th CPHL/45th NHL

Eric Gryba
67th CPHL/68th NHL

Luke Lynes
77th CPHL/122nd NHL

Matt Belesky
83rd CPHL/112 NHL

Panthers did vry well with the early picks but not so hot with the later ones. Being able to draft Little, Weber, Petry and Gryba very close to where they went in the NHL provides us with the assests we needed to trade!!!!

[JiriHrdina]

This was a wide open draft so its not surprising that many of us have good and not so good picks. From about #12 onwards it was a very wide open draft which made our jobs all the more difficult (and fun!). The latter rounds in particular proved to be very strange indeed in the NHL draft with many names I had not even heard about going, while other names that were ranked on a number of lists not being taken at all.

Here's our results:

Patrick Berglund - #25 CPHL, #25 NHL
Cal Clutterbuck - #36 CPHL, #72 NHL
Yuri Alexandrov - #43 CPHL, #37 NHL
Chris Summers (since dealt) - #46 CPHL, #30 NHL
Cody Burkie - #47 CPHL, #59 NHL
Tomas Marcinko - #51 CPHL, #115 NHL
Oskar Osala - #65 CPHL, #97 NHL
Felix Schultz - #103 CPHL, #117 NHL
Kaspars Daugavins, #108 CPHL, #91 NHL
Ryan Turek - #110 CPHL, #94 NHL
Marcel Muller - #118 CPHL, NOT DRAFTED
Chris Gawlik - #121 CPHL, NOT DRAFTED
Igor Zubov - #125 CPHL, NOT DRAFTED
Lukas Bohunicky - #122 CPHL, NOT DRAFTED

So...some good and some not so good. My last 4 picks weren't drafted in the NHL which is surprising - particularly Gawlick who is said to have a lot of talent. I'll likely hang on to all 4 of them for the year and see if they are drafted next year when they re-enter the draft.

[Goffie]

Pens Draft Results
Cory Emmerton 21 CPHL/ 41 NHL
Joseph Palmer 69 CPHL/96 NHL
Michael Carman 70CPHL/ 81NHL
Igor Makarov 75CPHL/ 33 NHL
Ben Wright 78 CPHL/ 113 NHL
Ryan Flynn 79 CPHL/ 176 NHL
Micheal Caruso 81 CPHL/ 103 NHL
Kyle Medvec 82 CPHL/ 102 NHL
Hugo Carpentier 94 CPHL/ 118 NHL
James Delory 95 CPHL/98 NHL

The guys I drafted all went within a round of my pick , which is not too bad given the crapshoot that this draft was. I think I did really good with my makarov pick and did pretty bad with the Flynn pick, besides that I am pretty happy as most guys went within 20spots of where I took them.

[Sylvanfan]

Yeah, I'm definitely the worst drafter of the group.....Doesn't bode well for the Devils because my trading sucks stinky ass too. Poor Devils.

[flambers]

Below is the outcome for the Rangers

Michael Forney (Drafted by another GM)

CPHL #28 / NHL # 80

Alexander Vasyunov (Drafted by another GM)

CPHL #40 / NHL #58

Vladimir Zharkov

CPHL #54 / NHL #77

John Armstrong

CPHL #72 / NHL #87
Tony Lagerstrom

CPHL #84 / NHL # 76

Constantin Braun

CPHL #114 / NHL #164

[notoepik]

The Hawks scouts said, " Becky, historically you are no better than the Devils when it comes to drafting. You will take anything as long as one scout says something positive about the guy. You are better off trading your picks for players that already suck rather than looking like Syl at the draft. "

So I traded them all. Now we don't look half as sucky as the Devils and Syl. I love my scouts

[droopydrew19]

Mixed Bag in Tampa.....

David Fischer D # 33 CPHL ♥♥
{ 20 NHL - MTL }
Mikael Juutilainen C # 41 CPHL ↓↓↓
{ 156 NHL - CHI }
David Kveton RW #80 CPHL ↓
{ 104 NHL - NYR }
Shawn Matthias C #89 CPHL ♥♥♥
{ 47 NHL - DET }
Ryan Daniels G # 98 CPHL ↓↓
{ 151 NHL - OTT }
Robert Nyholm RW # 105 CPHL ↓
{ 129 NHL - CBS }
Rhett Rakhshani RW # 115 CPHL♥
{ 100 NHL - NYI }
James Reimer G #127 CPHL ♥
{ 99 NHL - TOR }

[Young Guns]

Here is how my picks went this year...........




All in all not to bad as I was right on par with where I thought they would go in the NHL draft.