[GDT] Draft Day! 2016 NHL Draft - 5 PM - Sportsnet

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

The league needs to change the whole 'lets get evryone who works for the team to trudge up on stage, look awkward, have a little speech prepared that are all basically identical before announcing their pick, then all wait for the kid to take pictures'

NBA and NFL do it better. Just my two cents.

People manage to continue finding the oddest and most benign things to complain about.

[Hot_Flatus]

The question of the day: Will that creep Thurman Murman Katz kid make another appearance?

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

You should forfeit your pick if you a) congratulate the city, team and fans for their wonderful hospitality or b) congratulate the Stanley Cup champions.

And their should be a max of 3 people on stage. I don't want to see the head scouts nephew up there taking pictures with the new draft pick.

Oh, and the NFL does it awful, the Commish should not be announcing the picks. Does the NBA do it that way too? Almost as bad as giving the trophy to the friggin owner.

I hate this so much. 100 million people don't drop everything to watch Robert Kraft sign a cheque.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

The league needs to change the whole 'lets get evryone who works for the team to trudge up on stage, look awkward, have a little speech prepared that are all basically identical before announcing their pick, then all wait for the kid to take pictures'

NBA and NFL do it better. Just my two cents.

I like that though, it gives the scouts who work their tails off a few minutes in the limelight. I watched the NBA draft and the NFL draft and I don't like the feel of it. NFL you have all these guys in their warooms in their respective cities and then they fly the draftees out after they put on a hat?

NBA, they're in their little rooms they get with a camera on them in front of computers and again the players slap on a hat and then seconds later they're traded.

Just a big fat meh to me.

I feel the NHL does their drafts better than any league in the world. Why have them in lockstep with the other leagues and have it boring.

I love that the wheeling and dealing is done face to face on the draft floor and scribes are running to this table and that. There's intrigue there. It's like watching a giant swap meet sometimes.

Why anyone would want to change that is beyond me.

[fire_starter]

Originally Posted by FBI

IMO:
Off the table:
Bennett, Gaudreau, Monahan, Hamilton, Brodie, Gio, #6 (unless trade up to #3)

On the table:
All 2nds, 2017 first, Colborne, Backlund, one of our stud prospect D, taking back bad salary, any of our crap

On the table:

**Wideman
But I guess that would be in the *any of our crap* section.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Buff

He doesn't have to do anything to impress anybody. He has to try to improve the team. Some years a good deal is there to be had, and some years, improving the team is not making a trade for the sake of making a trade.

So what you're saying is it's a process.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

The question of the day: Will that creep Thurman Murman Katz kid make another appearance?

How is this even a question anymore? He has been on the stage every year since Katz bought the team.

[sureLoss]

4 hours 57 minutes

[jg13]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

4 hours 57 minutes

Posted at 12:02..

Rumors confirmed Sureloss lives in the future.

[nixon45]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

4 hours 57 minutes

I think I saw my clock move backwards

[Insufficient Funds]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

4 hours 57 minutes

You're employed by the team or independently wealthy right? I don't know how you'd get anything else done with the amount of info you break/post.

Jokes aside, thanks for the work you put into making this site better.

[King Theo]

I the bright side, it is now 3:15.
However I live in the Atlantic time zone so I still need to wait another 4:45 minutes.

[868904]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

The question of the day: Will that creep Thurman Murman Katz kid make another appearance?

Well you just opened my eyes to the fact that the Oilers will never not have a high first round pick cause then how would Katz junior get any tv love.

Oilers not trading 4 overall confirmed.

[manwiches]

I'm playing in a Regina fundraising street hockey tournament, Sticks on Rose, and Eberle is one of the celebrities. Last night at the draft for celebrities for teams, everybody was busting his balls about being traded. He took it in stride, but even today its relentless. A buddy of mine went to him today and said "Hey Jordan, you excited to be playing for St Louis?" Lol. He just smiled and changed the subject.

[TheScorpion]

3 hours, 54 minutes.

[skudr248]

nm

[jschick88]

Interesting if true.

m g ‏@kikkerlaika
This is juicy. Might be Tampa's draft pick value/strategy that was found in Buffalo

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by jg13

Posted at 12:02..

Rumors confirmed Sureloss lives in the future.

It all makes sense too.

If you only lived one minute in the future, you wouldn't be able to do that much that other people can't. It wouldn't be very handy for getting rich by rigging the lotto or stock markets or betting on sports.

It wouldn't be enough time to be a superhero and avert disasters and major worldwide crisis'.

So sureloss did what any sensible, logical human would do. He found a way to leverage his life of being 1 minute in the future the only way he could. He decided to post news updates on a hockey forum. I'm just glad he picked us over CDC paste eating trolls and HF.

[bubbsy]

are u guys following anything now other than twitter??

curious if rumours, etc, are being discussed on radio or tv?

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by jschick88

Interesting if true.

m g ‏@kikkerlaika
This is juicy. Might be Tampa's draft pick value/strategy that was found in Buffalo

That's insane, I think someone also found Bennings draft strategy sheet...