Post by thedarkangel1975 on Apr 29, 2013 22:23:12 GMT -5
No luck this time. The Edmonton Oilers held their position in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, 7th overall, after it was revealed the Colorado Avalanche had won the lottery. The Avalanche held the #2 seed going in so simply flipped positions with the luckless #1 (a.k.a. ¡°#30¡å) Florida Panthers. All other teams from #3 through 14 will draw from their natural positions.
During the show Bob McKenzie unveiled his updated list of top prospects, a blended list obtained from ten scouts which has proven to be fairly accurate in the past. The seventh ranked player there is centre Sean Monahan, featured by Jonathan Willis here at the Cult of Hockey earlier today.
Related post ¡ª Willis: How much offensive potential does Sean Monahan have?
Monahan is also ranked seventh on Craig (Button)¡¯s list and is about the same on the so-called ¡°Central¡± Scouting rankings, which actually decentralizes rankings to North America and European lists. Monahan ranks 5th among North American skaters but likely behind the top two Europeans, Aleksander Barkov and Valeri Nichushkin. One ranking with a different opinion is the latest International Scouting Services rankings, where gigantic Russian defenceman Nikita Zadorov slots in at #7.
All the lists seem to agree on Seth Jones being the plum prospect in what is touted as an exceptionally deep draft year, and it would seem the Texas native and current Portland Winterhawks star is likely headed for Denver. It¡¯s a cool story in that Jones first started in hockey when his dad, NBA player Popeye Jones, played for the Denver Nuggets in the 1999-2000 season ¡ª the year the Pepsi Center opened. Popeye reportedly inquired of Avalanche star Joe Sakic of the possibilities of his 6-year-old son playing hockey. Hard to imagine the Avs will look in any other direction than the 6¡¯4, 206-lb. defender when they get called to podium on June 30. As the Journal¡¯s Jim Matheson reports, it¡¯s even possible that Joe Sakic himself might be the man in charge of making that selection.
Worth noting that the Avalanche will no longer be a division rival of the Oilers starting in 2013-14. Meanwhile, ¡°poor¡± Florida will likely have to console themselves by picking a top notch forward like Nate MacKinnon or Jonathan Drouin.
The Oilers, meanwhile, move out of the limelight and down the pecking order, not only in the first round but throughout. Their later picks include two in the second round ¡ª their own at #37 and Anaheim¡¯s somewhere in the 50¡äs pending playoff results (from the Andrew Cogliano swap). The Oilers traded both their third and fourth round picks (for Mark Fistric and Jerred Smithson respectively), and will pick in rotation in the final three rounds at #s 128, 158, and 188. (There is one compensatory pick in the second round which bumps all the subsequent numbers by one position.)
In the coming weeks we¡¯ll have plenty of time to consider the various options at the Oilers¡¯ disposal ¡ª including trading down or conceding the pick outright for more immediate help.
During the show Bob McKenzie unveiled his updated list of top prospects, a blended list obtained from ten scouts which has proven to be fairly accurate in the past. The seventh ranked player there is centre Sean Monahan, featured by Jonathan Willis here at the Cult of Hockey earlier today.
Related post ¡ª Willis: How much offensive potential does Sean Monahan have?
Monahan is also ranked seventh on Craig (Button)¡¯s list and is about the same on the so-called ¡°Central¡± Scouting rankings, which actually decentralizes rankings to North America and European lists. Monahan ranks 5th among North American skaters but likely behind the top two Europeans, Aleksander Barkov and Valeri Nichushkin. One ranking with a different opinion is the latest International Scouting Services rankings, where gigantic Russian defenceman Nikita Zadorov slots in at #7.
All the lists seem to agree on Seth Jones being the plum prospect in what is touted as an exceptionally deep draft year, and it would seem the Texas native and current Portland Winterhawks star is likely headed for Denver. It¡¯s a cool story in that Jones first started in hockey when his dad, NBA player Popeye Jones, played for the Denver Nuggets in the 1999-2000 season ¡ª the year the Pepsi Center opened. Popeye reportedly inquired of Avalanche star Joe Sakic of the possibilities of his 6-year-old son playing hockey. Hard to imagine the Avs will look in any other direction than the 6¡¯4, 206-lb. defender when they get called to podium on June 30. As the Journal¡¯s Jim Matheson reports, it¡¯s even possible that Joe Sakic himself might be the man in charge of making that selection.
Worth noting that the Avalanche will no longer be a division rival of the Oilers starting in 2013-14. Meanwhile, ¡°poor¡± Florida will likely have to console themselves by picking a top notch forward like Nate MacKinnon or Jonathan Drouin.
The Oilers, meanwhile, move out of the limelight and down the pecking order, not only in the first round but throughout. Their later picks include two in the second round ¡ª their own at #37 and Anaheim¡¯s somewhere in the 50¡äs pending playoff results (from the Andrew Cogliano swap). The Oilers traded both their third and fourth round picks (for Mark Fistric and Jerred Smithson respectively), and will pick in rotation in the final three rounds at #s 128, 158, and 188. (There is one compensatory pick in the second round which bumps all the subsequent numbers by one position.)
In the coming weeks we¡¯ll have plenty of time to consider the various options at the Oilers¡¯ disposal ¡ª including trading down or conceding the pick outright for more immediate help.
