Fucale is the next Carey price

I get where that's coming from but he's still TSN's director of scouting

Aatu Raty has become an extremely underrated prospect, and may be a top 10 NHL affiliated prospect in the league

guy should not have left round 1 lol

wrong thread nvm

Maybe this is a VERY hot take, but should the sabres not even look at Wright even if they get the #1 Overall pick? Id seriously consider trading down to 3/4 or even staying at 1 and taking Slajkovsky or Cooley. I think that Cozens is so similar now to Wright that we would benefit alot more by getting ourselves a elite scorer vs a 2 way center. Kind of like Shooting for Zegras instead of Cozens.

That is a very hot take, sabres should 100% take Wright if he's available for them.

I don't think the Sabres centre depth is solid enough to pull something like that. I think Cozens will probably end up in the Norris/Suzuki tier of centre, where he's good, but you're not justifying him being a top 15 centre in the league or anything like that. Krebs is not gonna be a better centre than him, and might end up as a LW anyway. Mittelstadt is an enigma. I'm really not sure where Thompson fits into everything and if this breakout is legit or a one-off, but he's not a 1C regardless. I think the Sabres would feel really good about a top 2 centre combo of Wright and Cozens, to go with a stellar top 2 defenseman combo of Dahlin and Power. Wingers can be found in free agency, and they have a few good ones anyway (Tuch, Quinn, Peterka). "Shooting for Zegras" is silly, because if we knew Zegras was gonna be this good he woulda gone top 3, trading down and hoping you get the steal of the draft seems kinda silly, because if you know he's gonna be that good you'd simply select him with your own pick.

Well the Sabres could use another Center to go with Cozens so picking Wright if you get 1 makes sense

But shooting for Zegras I more meant look at Cozens vs Zegras, Cozens is the guy you would rely on to **** down the opposition and Zegras to score goals. I just don't think the sabres need another shutdown center, we need a Elite offensive 1C, was hoping that is what Slajkovsky could become.

Slafkovsky’s not a C, he’s a winger

What in the world happened to Eilas Salomonsson? I've been trying to find stuff to watch on him but everything I've found is from September and October, with the only thing recent being from January saying he sucked. What the hell happened?

As one person I follow put it "Elias Salomonsson entered the season as a highly-regarded defender, yet his season has seemed to bring more questions than answers." He's pretty much just showed that his ceiling is still around the same but his floor is lower now and he's more of a project

neither is russia invading another country. i know most russians dont want this its more on putin but literally getting every single russian against him right now would be the best cause in my mind.

last one so no need to comment back. but for players with families still in russia, their game checks are going home and going directly into russias economy, that money isnt staying here. its definitely a touchy subject but if youre not gunna allow russians in olympic events, or might not even allow them to be draft eligible... (latest nhl rumors) idk i dont think its that slippery of a slope. I think its pretty easy to say sorry but we want zero part of anything russian right now, athletes/propsects/coaches/gms/equipment you name it. its not like russian just hacked into their servers, the country is engaging in a hostile takeover. every business, every entity, should be distancing themselves from russia in any way possible.

Except punishing everyone with a relation at any level to Russia does nothing except make them hate the west, you're then excluding people from everyday things for being Russian which is at that point, is discrimination

It’s not all Russians fault there leader is like that, poor people

and how do you know which russians support the cause and which dont? its war... is ovechkin funneling money to putin? you dont know. nobody will ever know. thats the point of cutting all ties with all russians.

That's exactly the point but with the wrong conclusion. We don't know who's pro Putin and who isn't, but that's not a reason to exclude all people who where born on the same piece of land just because their president, who wasn't voted for in a democratic election, is doing horrible things.

Note that this is referring to athletes not to Russian companies, etc. These player want to do one thing above everything else: play Hockey. And cutting ties with them because they were born in Russia even though they are here to play Hockey and not to promote Russia, etc. would be pretty stupid.

I’d use an example from F1, of removing Uralkali as a sponsor but allowing Nikita Mazepin the chance to stay or lose his seat on the merit of driving, not a geopolitical situation.

This 👆🏻

If you see someone still have Elias Salomonsson in their first round, know that they’re only looking at points while making lists. There’s no way anyone watched him this year and see a first round guy. He has the tools to be good but someone took his tool box and welded it shut.

— Mikael Holm (@carlmikaelholm) January 5, 2022

He will be a late 2nd IMO

Works well as an example. But it should be considered that Mazepin's father has close ties to Putin and that it's still in the realm of possibilities that he loses his seat before Bahrain.

Forgot his father was so close to Putin, so I guess it isn’t the greatest example, but I’m glad you share the sentiment.

Being a Haas fan, I just want them to decide quickly so they can focus on driving, whether its Fittipaldi, Mazepin, or anyone else in the seat come Bahrain.

Today being March 1st, teams can now begin signing draft choices currently on their reserve lists, as well as draft related unrestricted free agents (undrafted UFA's), to NHL contracts that being next season (2022-23).This window closes again on June 1st. pic.twitter.com/kBT7RHjRwR

— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) March 1, 2022

Leafs have:
Ryan O'Connell LD (Ohio State)
Axel Rindell RD (Karpat)

Needing contracts or they will become UFA’s.

Anyone know their teams prospects needing contracts