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Habs select Cole Caufield 15th overall

As an aside, I laughed this AM when I read in the Vancouver Sun a columnist saying we had the worst draft of all Canadian based teams. He gave us a C+ and gave the Cannots an A-.
 
Meh, people are discounting Caufield. The rest of the draft wasn’t that impressive honestly.
 
Habsy said:
Meh, people are discounting Caufield. The rest of the draft wasn’t that impressive honestly.
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I gave us a B for Caufield alone. As for the rest, once you get past the first round, it is luck not science. It's the same in football. I love guys who get upset we didn't take X player in the 6th or 7th round. Like who cares by that point.

I would have preferred we move up to get Lavoie but for some reason, the team doesn't like him
 
I think that’s what people were looking for, making a move up. The Habs had a lot of picks and could have done it in the second.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
As an aside, I laughed this AM when I read in the Vancouver Sun a columnist saying we had the worst draft of all Canadian based teams. He gave us a C+ and gave the Cannots an A-.
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I'm not that trilled about our draft with the exception of Caufield which is the saving grace. Don't have high hopes for any of the other players we picked after him. They all seems project with very low pourcentage of making it or player with low ceilling. The Furture will tell but I was much more exicted with our draft last year.
 
Habsy said:
I think that’s what people were looking for, making a move up. The Habs had a lot of picks and could have done it in the second.
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I'm guessing they didn't see a player in there that was worth it. I'm happy they didn't trade up for Lajoie. He seems like trouble, bad attitude type player who end up being a flop. No suprising that Edmonton drafted him.
 
Guibs said:
I'm not that trilled about our draft with the exception of Caufield which is the saving grace. Don't have high hopes for any of the other players we picked after him. They all seems project with very low pourcentage of making it or player with low ceilling. The Furture will tell but I was much more exicted with our draft last year.
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that is the sort of draft it was

some really good players in the top 10 and then a bunch of projects
 
I like our first 3 picks, after that it's a lot of meh, which is kinda expected I guess, but generally there is a few intriguing projects in there.
 
John Lu:
Caufield, who hopes to become like DeBrincat, says he envisions Kotkaniemi someday being his Patrick Kane on a line together.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I gave us a B for Caufield alone. As for the rest, once you get past the first round, it is luck not science. It's the same in football. I love guys who get upset we didn't take X player in the 6th or 7th round. Like who cares by that point.

I would have preferred we move up to get Lavoie but for some reason, the team doesn't like him
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I was in the "who cares" party in round 2. This draft is very mediocre.

Lavoie is one of those players that would become the whipping boy. There will be nights where he will look like a world beater that will make everyone look silly for passing him up, but there are nights where he'll float with the best of them.
 
 
I can't recall the last time we had an offensive player like this one in our system. Richer maybe? Naslund?
 
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