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Originally Posted by devo22
oh I agree. All I'm saying is that Demko is probably a safe bet to be the first goaltender in the upcoming draft, and the first goaltender never makes it past 50. Nashville's Magnus Hellberg was drafted #38 in 2011 ... in every other draft in the past 20 years, the first goaltender was drafted earlier than that.
1994 - # 7 - LAK - Jamie Storr
1995 - #13 - HAR - Jean-Sebastien Giguere
1996 - #23 - PIT - Craig Hillier
1997 - # 4 - NYI - Roberto Luongo
1998 - #14 - PHX - Patrick DesRochers
1999 - # 6 - NSH - Brian Finley
2000 - # 1 - NYI - Rick DiPietro
2001 - # 8 - CBJ - Pascal Leclaire
2002 - # 2 - ATL - Kari Lehtonen
2003 - # 1 - PIT - Marc-Andre Fleury
2004 - # 6 - NYR - Al Montoya
2005 - # 5 - MTL - Carey Price
2006 - #11 - LAK - Jonathan Bernier
2007 - #36 - PHX - Joel Gistedt
2008 - #18 - NSH - Chet Pickard
2009 - #31 - NYI - Mikko Koskinen
2010 - #11 - DAL - Jack Campbell
2011 - #38 - NSH - Magnus Hellberg
2012 - #19 - TBL - Andrei Vasilevski
2013 - #36 - MTL - Zachary Fucale
McKenzie had Demko at 32 in his last update, FC even has him at 13. Could very well be a late 1st round pick IMO.
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I'm not disagreeing. I was just saying I would rather draft someone else than use a high pick on him.
I am partial to picking a goaltender headed the NCAA route because it gives them up them up to 4 years of development. After Demko I would look hard at Edwin Minney (US Development Program, Michigan State commit), he has excellent USHL numbers and according to central scouting is the #2 ranked goaltender