GDT: Blues Draft Day 2023

[Linkens Mastery]

I want the tall Dman dude

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Who we hoping for here?

Paul Fischer

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

Like the other Fisher better but not bad value at this point

 

[Linkens Mastery]

What is a Paul Fischer?

 

[Kylester]

Paul Fischer, D, 6'1", 200, USNTD.

Our 5th round pick, ladies and gentlemen

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Paul Fischer, D, 6'1", 200, USNTD.

Our 5th round pick, ladies and gentlemen

Ewwwww he's from Chicago

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

I want the tall Dman dude

Kristian konstadinski is still there a monster Swede d man

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Size, can skate. But that's about it. Wonder what they see in him.

 

[mk80]

Notre Dame committed guy

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[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Will we go back to back to back years without drafting a goalie?

 

[greybush314]

Blues cornering the market on good skating 6' tall LH defensive defensemen

 

[Blueston]

Suprised that we have drafted 3 LHD and no RHD. apparently we plan on playing Parayko and Faulk 30 minutes a night for next half dozen years.

 

[STL fan in MN]

I don’t know much about him, but the Czech forwards at u18 were decidedly unimpressive other than sale. Now if he is strong defensively and less skilled, as it seems, that is something I wouldn’t have necessarily picked up on since he wasn’t on my radar.

I paid attention to him at U18s as he was one of their more touted players and he didn’t stand out at all to me.

Watching those 2-3 games where Czechia was horrible is all I’ve seen of him though. Obviously Blues saw much much more of him.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Suprised that we have drafted 3 LHD and no RHD. apparently we plan on playing Parayko and Faulk 30 minutes a night for next half dozen years.

Probably. Lol

 

[542365]

Habs just drafted their third goalie. Carey Price must be running their draft table.

 

[Beauterham]

Karpovich is still there

Surprised he's still on the board. Seemed like this years Duda (who went to ARI 2nd round last year) to me.

Tanner Adams also still available, guy who I like as a late rounder. Mazden Leslie also still there.

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Habs just drafted their third goalie. Carey Price must be running their draft table.

The idea is to never let him leave the table after last nights debacle.

 

[STL fan in MN]

Habs just drafted their third goalie. Carey Price must be running their draft table.

They’re the only names Price knows.

 

[Xerloris]

Another two-way forward. We're about to have a team full of Steens with a Thomas and a Kyrou

Give me a team full of Steens and I bet they win the cup.

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Habs just drafted their third goalie. Carey Price must be running their draft table.

I hear he's on a first name basis with all of them.

Give me a team full of Steens and I bet they win the cup.

I'd be worried about goaltending.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I want Mann

 

[STL fan in MN]

Karpovich, Laakso, Mukhanov, Urban, Petr, Dej. That’s who I want from here.

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

Pahlssen Hoen

 

[Hrkac Circus]

The idea is to never let him leave the table after last nights debacle.

“Carey, stay here and watch our coats.”

 

[Brian39]

McKenzie may have the most accurate rankings but lots of people prefer different ones or use their own. I've already seen a few sites give us a D on Lindstein for pick grades, saying he was a late 2nd to early 3rd. They obviously didn't get McKenzie's memo.

And it isn't like the Bobfather was the only guy who had him ranked ahead of the mid-late 2nd round.

Pronman had him at 42.

Sportsnet had him at 29.

Ryan Kennedy from the Hockey News had him at 36 (while two other writes had him 56 and sixty something).

Central Scouting had him 14th among international players. Tough to tell exactly where that falls on the combined list, but probably not outside the top 50ish guys.

If we still owned our 2nd round pick, then maybe the strategy would have been to take someone else at #29 and hope that he'd fall to 42. I could see an argument for believing that he was a 2nd round talent best suited to get in the first third of the 2nd round. But he absolutely wasn't a consensus late 2nd round (or early 3rd) talent. I get preferring specific writers, but you can't just ignore Sportsnet, TSN, The Athletic, and Central Scouting.