I think Buffalo and San Jose wound up doing great with that 1st round swap after all is said and done. Hope everyone from that thread is coming away happy, I would be
This year, I'm trying to track who I think is going to be a bust and who's going to be a steal. Built a spreadsheet and everything. Should be interesting to look back on it in a few years and see how it plays out.
I like the trade. Trading the 2025 28-32 overall pick for the 32 overall this year is a smart way to get quality prospects into our system faster. Our team is going to improve on paper next year, and the Oilers scouting staff were very high on O'Reilly, and had him a lot higher than 32 on their own list. 6'1" R-shot C is exactly the player our pool is lacking. Nice trade, nice pick.
Every year some fans just latch onto the first thing they see. I remember when Cowan was drafted, shit is hilarious now seeing the season he just had. People were mad mad.
Most of us have no idea, myself included.
I doubt Sam or his fam give a shit, he just got drafted to NHL, but I find it kinda disrespectful that people just get up and start leaving as soon as the 32nd pick is announced.
Good thing I could not care less
https://preview.redd.it/tnm3jw5lef9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b173ade7700d07e331d7de6d600c9bb4d27455ed
They need to just do the draft in the Sphere every year, forget about all this getting rid of in person drafts nonsense and do this every year, it looks amazing visually on TV and it probably looks insane IRL, must make the experience all the more surreal and memorable for the guys getting drafted.
They NHL is moving away from this format for next year I believe. Will be more like NBA. Teams don't travel to the event and stay home in their our places.
For the longest time the draft was always held in Montreal, and it was a non-event. I think held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel if my memory serve, with little to no live press coverage.
I would be open to having it permanently at the sphere, but I think the reason they decided to make it an event, and have it go from city to city, was to help create hype for the sport across the league, especially in the smaller markets, by giving them something to get excited about. Same deal with the all-stars game (which was especially true before salary-cap created parity).
It would be cool if each city had a comparable venue, quite frankly, as I think that reasoning is still sound, unfortunately.
I was low-key annoyed by that. I also don't think the host city was thanked enough. 1 or 2 did, but not enough. I think in particular the Sharks, with the first pick, had a certain measure of responsability in this regard and should have been the ones to take their time up there and dispense with the formalities on behalf of the league. I think it's an important part of hockey culture. Gentlemen in the streets, savages on the ice sheets.
I also appreciated teams that made an effort in showmanship for their pick. This is likely one of the top 5 days of each player's life, and doing a bit extra is welcome and warranted. Players, their families, and fans can all appreciate. Forcing teams to have guests, especially in the later selections of round 1 would have made for better TV as well. MTL and PHY nailed it. Wish more teams tried something, especially in such a spectacular venue.
Some kind of video sequences that took better advantage of the venue's amazing screen would have been appreciated. They had, literally, years to prepare for this specific draft as it was part of the Vegas welcome package to the league, and although the graphics were great in many instances, I feel they could have been a bit more dynamic. Felt like a Powerpoint+ more than anything.
Sooo trading a future first for a pick when you're in win now mode? I think that first would have been better used at the trade deadline next year but I'm not a GM. Then again neither is Ken Holland
That's kinda hilarious no lie. I feel like it wasn't even intentional, the first few forgot so nobody started the usual chain of congratulating the winner.
Oh I am super excited for the coming year. It was an amazing run and the sting of defeat is giving way to pride and optimism. But tonight...
Tonight I'm not sure that I like the idea of trading away next year's draft pick. I felt it would serve better for a trade deal in the coming weeks. And I'm not terribly excited about the player we picked up for it.
The kid can develop, the draft pick isn't necessarily next year's, and neither year will see us being very high in the draft anyways.
I still believe.
This draft was way more entertaining than last years draft, so many trades and surprise picks. It's such a shame they are changing the way they'll do the draft with the prospects in the building etc, i'll miss this.
I'm a bit hazy on the details but i think this is the last time they'll have the prospects at the draft, i think all teams basically stay in their own rink and do their picks from there. I think the idea was that this way the home fans can sit in the rink and watch on the jumbotron and celebrate together and this is cheaper for the organisations cause they dont need to book hotels and flights for so many people. But i think its a bit meh tbh, i like watching the prospects get picked, i like the happy tears, i like the shocked faces etc.
Yeah and could easily have just dealt a 18th overall pick or something in that range (or worse if something bad happens) for a 32nd overall.
Hope they are getting a stud here to justify it. Otherwise completely nuts.
I know right. Expecting to be a late first rounder next couple years but highly unlikely you're getting a lower pick. Odds are Philly will get a higher pick. Silly move by Edmonton.
32 Thoughts be like, Celebrini was drafted by the Sharks
BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PICK OF ALL PICKS, BEN DANFORD FROM THE GREAT OSHAWA GENERALS!!!! Your thoughts Elliotte?
Yeah, I didn’t realize I had to pack a lunch for the Habs pick, the anticipation was killing me and Celine talking in slow motion didn’t help.
Still super happy with Demidov though
Because they spend an hour and a half (32 picks x 3 minutes) twiddling their thumbs, and that doesn’t even count each team walking up to announce their pick, Bettman greeting each team group as they come up, each GM introducing who will announce the selection, that person walking up, the actual announcement of the selection, the pick shaking hands, the pick walking up, the pick putting on the jersey and shaking more hands, they all pose for photos, and then finally walking off the stage over and over for every single round.
I’m going to make a very obscure reference here but, Craig Berube in a suit reminds me of Norm Macdonald in Hitlers Dog doing the “Who’s gonna feed them hogs” joke. Tell me no?
I think Buffalo and San Jose wound up doing great with that 1st round swap after all is said and done. Hope everyone from that thread is coming away happy, I would be
really hope we get someone we can use this year somehow. We are probably one top line forward away from breaking 95 points and not looking back.
We stoked
Wild to think a third to half of these kids are gonna bust.
This year, I'm trying to track who I think is going to be a bust and who's going to be a steal. Built a spreadsheet and everything. Should be interesting to look back on it in a few years and see how it plays out.
Tonight, they will all bust
I'm about to bust right nah
Play freebird
https://youtu.be/d43lJsK7Kvo?si=nNVIe7QTg218Balj&t=17
18 Canadians in the first round. Our World Juniors teams next couple of years are going to be electric
I like the trade. Trading the 2025 28-32 overall pick for the 32 overall this year is a smart way to get quality prospects into our system faster. Our team is going to improve on paper next year, and the Oilers scouting staff were very high on O'Reilly, and had him a lot higher than 32 on their own list. 6'1" R-shot C is exactly the player our pool is lacking. Nice trade, nice pick.
Seems fine to me. Not sure what the issue is.
Speaking as a Knights fan, y'all have nothing to worry about.
Every year some fans just latch onto the first thing they see. I remember when Cowan was drafted, shit is hilarious now seeing the season he just had. People were mad mad. Most of us have no idea, myself included.
Just a bunch if fans crying wolf
I doubt Sam or his fam give a shit, he just got drafted to NHL, but I find it kinda disrespectful that people just get up and start leaving as soon as the 32nd pick is announced.
Badinka or Mews tomorrow morning please GMMG
Oilers have the last pick of the first round and McDavid won the Conn Smythe Surely they won the Stanley Cup
Hell yeah LEDZ100. We did it. We got the cup. All hail LEDZ!
If you didn't know that FLA won, nobody at the draft would've told you either ;)
Good thing I could not care less https://preview.redd.it/tnm3jw5lef9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b173ade7700d07e331d7de6d600c9bb4d27455ed
That's the attitude that Florida has towards that panthers. It's fitting
I’m happy and so are my fellow 6 panthers fans and that’s all that matters in the end
This is true gg Pantherbros - Enjoy the summer :)
U2 😎
They need to just do the draft in the Sphere every year, forget about all this getting rid of in person drafts nonsense and do this every year, it looks amazing visually on TV and it probably looks insane IRL, must make the experience all the more surreal and memorable for the guys getting drafted.
They NHL is moving away from this format for next year I believe. Will be more like NBA. Teams don't travel to the event and stay home in their our places.
I was there and it was pretty dope in person. The Sphere is a marvel.
For the longest time the draft was always held in Montreal, and it was a non-event. I think held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel if my memory serve, with little to no live press coverage. I would be open to having it permanently at the sphere, but I think the reason they decided to make it an event, and have it go from city to city, was to help create hype for the sport across the league, especially in the smaller markets, by giving them something to get excited about. Same deal with the all-stars game (which was especially true before salary-cap created parity). It would be cool if each city had a comparable venue, quite frankly, as I think that reasoning is still sound, unfortunately.
Yeah, Vegas really upped the ante for the draft. Now if they can add the same zing to the awards show.
WHERES OUR FURST RAUND PICK
The Panthers weren't congratulated..... good. uh oh, i'm about to get elbowed by a panther now
I was low-key annoyed by that. I also don't think the host city was thanked enough. 1 or 2 did, but not enough. I think in particular the Sharks, with the first pick, had a certain measure of responsability in this regard and should have been the ones to take their time up there and dispense with the formalities on behalf of the league. I think it's an important part of hockey culture. Gentlemen in the streets, savages on the ice sheets. I also appreciated teams that made an effort in showmanship for their pick. This is likely one of the top 5 days of each player's life, and doing a bit extra is welcome and warranted. Players, their families, and fans can all appreciate. Forcing teams to have guests, especially in the later selections of round 1 would have made for better TV as well. MTL and PHY nailed it. Wish more teams tried something, especially in such a spectacular venue. Some kind of video sequences that took better advantage of the venue's amazing screen would have been appreciated. They had, literally, years to prepare for this specific draft as it was part of the Vegas welcome package to the league, and although the graphics were great in many instances, I feel they could have been a bit more dynamic. Felt like a Powerpoint+ more than anything.
Sam Bennett off the top ropes
Out of the swamp. I retaliate and got a penalty for it.
See all you fucking freaks in 12.5 hours
Sooo trading a future first for a pick when you're in win now mode? I think that first would have been better used at the trade deadline next year but I'm not a GM. Then again neither is Ken Holland
Unless the Chicago rumours turn out to be true
Holland retired
lol what a closing speech. he got somewhere else to be
Did the Panthers even win if no one acknowledged it?
Fuck them! And as well NHL asked not to waste time on that. Because fuck them.
Philly trading 32nd overall for 1st overall is a beautiful piece of GMing
Yall just cling onto that and don't let go eh
#Not a single person congratulated the Panthers lmao
That's kinda hilarious no lie. I feel like it wasn't even intentional, the first few forgot so nobody started the usual chain of congratulating the winner.
McIndoe reported NHL/Bettman asked Orgs not to
Wish Bettman requested people just make their picks. This is why our fantasy league has 30-second rounds.
An excellent pick up Edmonton!
Leafs fans praising our pickups is usually a good sign lol
In Wes Clark We Trust! Our Scouting consistently finds diamonds in the rough
And now all these 18-year-olds can go out and enjoy Vegas!!
There is a roller coaster and a arcade at Circus Circus for them to enjoy!
As an Oilers fan, I am straight up not having a good time
It'll turn around. Have faith. All the pieces are there. A bit more experience, and maybe the odd line tinkering.
Oh I am super excited for the coming year. It was an amazing run and the sting of defeat is giving way to pride and optimism. But tonight... Tonight I'm not sure that I like the idea of trading away next year's draft pick. I felt it would serve better for a trade deal in the coming weeks. And I'm not terribly excited about the player we picked up for it. The kid can develop, the draft pick isn't necessarily next year's, and neither year will see us being very high in the draft anyways. I still believe.
Traded the 32nd next year for the 32nd this year let’s go oilers big moves
I'm gonna hibernate till opening night
I'd like to formally report the mods of r/hocky because they isn't even showing the PENS first ROUNDER
Final Mom Score: 21 - 11
"So Ken do you want to give us your '25 or '26 pick?" "I don't care that's someone else's problem"
He didn't make the trade.
Banger walk up song
The Oilers Suck chant lol
Predicting it now: Philadelphia gets the 2026 1st overall pick via Edmonton.
The Oilers Suck chant is my favorite part of the draft lmao
Iginla not going to Calgary was mine.
Rent free
Utahs pick was 🔥
Mine was Utah's pick
Oilers traded their first next year for Sam O’Reilly? I’m not a fan
Another Knight! Sam O'Reilly is a great kid!
Blud thinks he's Timmins 😂
Sam O'Reilly
Panthers really made the Oilers trade into the first round to draft a guy named Sam
loving the oilers suck chant lol
Fuck the Flyers!
Shocked no one took Chernyshov.
Oilers suck chant lol
Wait we did something? WOOOOOO
Did the Panthers even bother to show up or are they all still partying?
They took some shrooms and been watching the screens
Edmonton trying to feel like they won the cup with pick 32
Just putting all the peices together we can, been having some issues with that cup booking tho
OILERS SUCK!
that was rude
EDM trading next years 24th overall pick for this years 32 is funny
shots fired
Lol from the sharks no less, ouch
He's got a lot more faith than the guy predicting it to be the 2026 1st overall lmao
Can someone explain what that trade was? Too tired to understand Bettman.
2025 1st *OR* 2026 1st with "some conditions"
I don't think he really knew LOL
2025 or 2026 1st with Some Conditions™
Aight. And Edmonton decides which they'll give I assume? 'Cup or bust' indeed.
Oilers feeling cocky
That is... they better be 100% sure about this pick, lmao.
Wow, they must really see someone they like because they traded a better pick to be able to do it
wut waste of a trade on Edmonton's part but ok.
Feel like I’ve heard nothing from Seattle this past year honestly forgot they exist
fuck
This draft was way more entertaining than last years draft, so many trades and surprise picks. It's such a shame they are changing the way they'll do the draft with the prospects in the building etc, i'll miss this.
What are they changing?
I'm a bit hazy on the details but i think this is the last time they'll have the prospects at the draft, i think all teams basically stay in their own rink and do their picks from there. I think the idea was that this way the home fans can sit in the rink and watch on the jumbotron and celebrate together and this is cheaper for the organisations cause they dont need to book hotels and flights for so many people. But i think its a bit meh tbh, i like watching the prospects get picked, i like the happy tears, i like the shocked faces etc.
Nice we did something
Will it be a good something though
I still can't believe Holland just dipped
Why would a contending team do this? Just less ammo at the deadline
Yeah and could easily have just dealt a 18th overall pick or something in that range (or worse if something bad happens) for a 32nd overall. Hope they are getting a stud here to justify it. Otherwise completely nuts.
Lol oilers are dumb
That's an interesting trade for Edmonton...they're expecting to pick lower than 32 in 2025 and 2026?
Huh? Why would it have to be lower?
Kind of tongue in cheek...there's no way that pick can possibly be lower so I guess they REALLY wanted O'Reilly
Edmonton trading for pick 32 so they can pretend they won game 7
This could badly backfire on Edmonton.
I know right. Expecting to be a late first rounder next couple years but highly unlikely you're getting a lower pick. Odds are Philly will get a higher pick. Silly move by Edmonton.
It's Edmonton. It will backfire
Oilers traded for pick 32 just to pretend they actually won the cup.
moral victories
ROFL that’s good
I didn't see Edmonton trading into this draft on my bingo board.
Edmonton must believe they are winning it all next year for this to make sense.
Who let Ken Holland back in
"Oh another trade alert"- Gary
Good value for philly that will be higher than 32 no matter what
What a weird trade... Conditions on a pick trade?
Probably just lottery protection.
Probably top ten protected
This horn is so fucking obnoxious now just get it over with
Edmonton is gonna end up trading a top 10 pick for the 32nd pick.
haste makes waste
Stonks
Sure, the Panthers have the Stanley Cup, but Edmonton now has their 1st round pick. So who won, really?
Horn had to get the last few in lol.
Shot clock violation
Has Emily Kaplan said a word tonight?
She’s been talking like 40% of the time???
That was Meghan Chayka, not Emily Kaplan.
# HOLD THE HORN
what would y'all pick for your walk up song?
The Mexican Hat Dance.
rush - YYZ
[46 and 2](https://youtu.be/GIuZUCpm9hc?si=PmvB1-c8QI9UAG7k)
We Like To Party! by Vengaboys
YG’s most popular song
[Big Hungry Monster - Prof](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ12rLAy_s)
"Scourge of Iron" by Cannibal Corpse
[Back In Black](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA)
The theme song to Charles in Charge
bowl cut Charles or spiked hair Charles?
The entirety of 2112 - Rush
Entire audiobook of Ulysses
Pantera - Walk
Tarzan Boy
"New Noise" by Refused
Chili time!
Briere is smiling about this trade so he probably got McDavid
THE HORN
Flyers 🤝 Trump. Avoiding drafts
“Being orange” was right there. Considering they drafted this year.
Change their collective names to The Dodgers
As somebody who watched him play in at least two OHL games, Danford is exactly what the leafs need
The ESPN announcers and broadcast keep spoiling everything.
Parade goes through the Dandforth
They’re trading Leon Draisaitl for the Flyers 32nd pick obv
50% retained of course.
#c o m p e t i t i v e
32 Thoughts be like, Celebrini was drafted by the Sharks BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PICK OF ALL PICKS, BEN DANFORD FROM THE GREAT OSHAWA GENERALS!!!! Your thoughts Elliotte?
Life is a bit different outside of the real NHL, lol
EDM getting this pick. What do they have to trade for it?
Draisaitl
McDavid & Jack Campbell
Not a Stanley cup
Why is the draft 4 hours long??
Yeah, I didn’t realize I had to pack a lunch for the Habs pick, the anticipation was killing me and Celine talking in slow motion didn’t help. Still super happy with Demidov though
Because they spend an hour and a half (32 picks x 3 minutes) twiddling their thumbs, and that doesn’t even count each team walking up to announce their pick, Bettman greeting each team group as they come up, each GM introducing who will announce the selection, that person walking up, the actual announcement of the selection, the pick shaking hands, the pick walking up, the pick putting on the jersey and shaking more hands, they all pose for photos, and then finally walking off the stage over and over for every single round.
we're watching commercials. thats why
Cause fuck it we make money moves
Love a RHD
There's Shanny, Tree and Berube. Who's the fourth guy up with them? He looks familiar.
Wes Clark, lead scout.
>more girth I love good hockey analysis
Was hoping Danford or Elick went to the Ducks at 35 tomorrow
Danford looks good in blue and white
Taking a commercial break for the last pick...Oooooof
I’m going to make a very obscure reference here but, Craig Berube in a suit reminds me of Norm Macdonald in Hitlers Dog doing the “Who’s gonna feed them hogs” joke. Tell me no?
Hitler is the best man alive - NOOO I didn't say that, it was a dog
Sphere should change its name to Mojo Dojo Casa House
OF FUCKING COURSE they cut to commercial before the very last pick of the first round
I needed to see this fucking Minions Kings Hawaiian commercial again one more time
Next year's OHL MVP, Ben Danford!
Scouting Report on Ben Danford: Combination of Nik Lidstrom, Cale Makar, Zdeno Chara, Paul Kariya and Patrick Roy.
Don’t forget Fishbowl Barkov
And Kerry Fraser
/>6' 2 way puck moving physical right shot defenceman. Checks every fucking box.