[GDT] 2016 Entry Draft - Day Two: Rounds 2-7

[dammage79]

All in all, really happy with the Flames draft. Took a bunch of really good players with immense upside and hockey IQ.

Aside from Tkachuk I think Tuulola is by far my favorite pick. Really happy.

[dammage79]

Maybe we can get Sokolov to prospect camp as an invite. I really thought some team would take a shot at this guy.

[bigrangy]

someone is going to take sokolov.

trade into the seventh, draft pasichnuk, let him stew for 4 years, then it's calder time

[Roof-Daddy]

Round 1 - 6 OA - Matthew Tkatchuk - LW
Round 2 - 54 OA - Tyler Parsons - G
Round 2 - 56 OA - Dill Dube - C
Round 3 - 66 OA - Adam Fox - D
Round 4 - 96 OA - Linus Lindstrom - C
Round 5 - 126 OA - Mitchell Mattson - C
Round 6 - 156 OA - Eetu Tuulola - RW
Round 6 - 166 OA - Matthew Phillips - C
Round 7 - 186 OA - Stepan Falkovsky - D


Plus Brian Elliot with the 35th OA and a conditional 2018 3rd

Good draft!

[N26]

It is a good draft. Unlike last year nothing we did on day 2 thrilled me but I have no complaints with the picks.

All of them look fairly long-termish. I don't ever expect to see Phillips and Falkovsky in Flames colours except for camps and Lindstrom and Fox have work to do to become more complete players. Parsons and Dube are decent prospects. Mattson and Tuulola are high risk but possible good-reward picks and I have no problem with making them in later rounds.

And day 1 was awesome as it was last year

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

bahahahahahaha

Ryan Rishaug @TSNRyanRishaug
Was heavily speculated Yakupov would get moved on day 2, but nothing yet. Oilers wanted a prospect of some sort, likely only picks offered

Breaking news: Flames trying trade the extra "E" in Eetu and "U" in Tuulola for Nail Yakupov. Treliving dealing from a position of strength.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by N26

It is a good draft. Unlike last year nothing we did on day 2 thrilled me but I have no complaints with the picks.

All of them look fairly long-termish. I don't ever expect to see Phillips and Falkovsky in Flames colours except for camps and Lindstrom and Fox have work to do to become more complete players. Parsons and Dube are decent prospects. Mattson and Tuulola are high risk but possible good-reward picks and I have no problem with making them in later rounds.

And day 1 was awesome as it was last year

Phillips will be one of the leading scorers in the WHL next year and people here will be salivating over him. Whether or not he'll become a real good prospect is unknown, but he's going to put up a lot of points in junior.

[JiriHrdina]

Benjamin Finklestein!!
That has to be a made up name

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Benjamin Finklestein!!
That has to be a made up name

How about DET's pick? Matthias Elfstrom?

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by dammage79

How about DET's pick? Matthias Elfstrom?

Yeah his has been a top notch draft for great names

[FurnaceFace]

Originally Posted by dammage79

How about DET's pick? Matthias Elfstrom?

After he spends a few years in the cookie factory and/or the North Pole I fully expect he turns into the next Zetterberg.

[StrykerSteve]

Minnesota takes Sokolov.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by StrykerSteve

Minnesota takes Sokolov.

Vader: "Nooooooooo!!"

[StrykerSteve]

Rangers take Ronning.

[N26]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

Phillips will be one of the leading scorers in the WHL next year and people here will be salivating over him. Whether or not he'll become a real good prospect is unknown, but he's going to put up a lot of points in junior.

I agree that he will do well next year. And I know the NHL is changing/has changed and there is a lot more roster space for the small speedy skill guys. With Gaudreau we know that better than most. But at 5'7 and 160 you have to be elite not just good. The game hasn't changed that much. If at 18 he was 5'10 and 170 I'd say he has a reasonable shot but at his size he is a real long long shot

Maybe Phillips can do it but I don't think so. There is really only one role for those guys and that's top line scorer. Paul Byron is the only really small guy I can think of that made it even in today's NHL in a non-scoring role and he's just barely above being a fringe player

[Joe Nieuwendyk]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

Breaking news: Flames trying trade the extra "E" in Eetu and "U" in Tuulola for Nail Yakupov. Treliving dealing from a position of strength.

I'm not sure that'll get it done. EU is pretty undervalued these days

[dammage79]

Sounds like a few RFA's won't be back. Treliving won't comment on things until they get back to Calgary to inform the players.

[mrdonkey]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Sounds like a few RFA's won't be back. Treliving won't comment on things until they get back to Calgary to inform the players.

Could see Van Brabant and Poulin being let go easily. Agostino and Shore, possibly. Not sure what to make of Elson, sounds like he's a popular guy in Stockton but clearly has no future with the big team. Maybe they throw him an AHL contract.

[JJ1532]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Sounds like a few RFA's won't be back. Treliving won't comment on things until they get back to Calgary to inform the players.

We have 19 players likely to start in Stockton already under contract. A further 9 are RFAs(Wolf, Wotherspoon, Van Brabant, Shore, Poulin, Hamilton, Elson, Agostino, Arnold).

I think only Hamilton and Wotherspoon are likely to be kept from that group.

[EldrickOnIce]

Has Arnold actually fallen that far that they don't qualify him?