2019 NHL ENTRY DRAFT - Vancouver

[Per]

So... Höglander. You may think Pettersson comes from a small town. Well, Höglander takes that to a whole new level.

Bockträsk (Goat Swamp) in Lapland (Sweden's northernmost province) where he grow up has roughly 20 inhabitants. Nils and his one year older sister were the only kids there. They learnt how to skate on the nearby lake, Bockträsket (the Goat Swamp). They both started playing hockey in Malå, a slightly bigger place with some 2000 inhabitants, which I guess is also where they went to school. After a while they moved to Skellefteå, where they both played hockey for Clemensnäs IF. During that time, when Nils was 12, his sister suddenly died from a burst aorta.

At age 15 he moved to Timrå, to play with them (yet again moving to a better team) and played 16 games with their J18 team, which also featured Elias Pettersson (sic!).

At 16, he and his mom moved to Stockholm, where he attended a hockey high school programme and played for AIK. He mostly played for their J16, J18 and J20 teams during his three year stint there, but also some games with their SHA team. Then last season he moved to Rögle, in the southernmost province of Sweden, Scania, to play in the SHL.

Börje Salming is another famous Laplander. No other comparisson. But sure, they both spent time playing for AIK.

Anyway. Small town kid who has overcome hardship and moved from place to place to pursue a career in hockey.
I smell grit. And determination. And some hardheadedness to boot.

And it's a nice touch that he has played one season with Pettersson in junior.
They probably have some common friends.

[Cherry Picker]

Carson Focht C 6’0 179lbs Canadian played with Calgary Hitmen

[Richardstroker69]

So... Höglander. You may think Pettersson comes from a small town. Well, Höglander takes that to a whole new level.

Bockträsk (Goat Swamp) in Lapland (Sweden's northernmost province) where he grow up has roughly 20 inhabitants. Nils and his one year older sister were the only kids there. They learnt how to skate on the nearby lake, Bockträsket (the Goat Swamp). They both started playing hockey in Malå, a slightly bigger place with some 2000 inhabitants, which I guess is also where they went to school. After a while they moved to Skellefteå, where they both played hockey for Clemensnäs IF. During that time, when Nils was 12, his sister suddenly died from a burst aorta.

At age 15 he moved to Timrå, to play with them (yet again moving to a better team) and played 16 games with their J18 team, which also featured Elias Pettersson (sic!).

At 16, he and his mom moved to Stockholm, where he attended a hockey high school programme and played for AIK. He mostly played for their J16, J18 and J20 teams during his three year stint there, but also some games with their SHA team. Then last season he moved to Rögle, in the southernmost province of Sweden, Scania, to play in the SHL.

Börje Salming is another famous Laplander. No other comparisson. But sure, they both spent time playing for AIK.

Anyway. Small town kid who has overcome hardship and moved from place to place to pursue a career in hockey.
I smell grit. And determination. And some hardheadedness to boot.

And it's a nice touch that he has played one season with Pettersson in junior.
They probably have some common friends.

I think we got 2 great steals, I think hogs is gonna be a top 6 guy. This draft could set us up great while we’re competing for the cup. I foresee lind and gadjovich taking big steps this year in the ahl, and then with pods and hog breaking in we could have some great young talent.

[Blob Mckenzie]

Elmer at it again.

Wake me up when they gas this pisstank

[DonCherry4PM]

I like this trade, immediate impact on top 6, 4 more years at a cost controlled contract, big 200 ft player, ntc now voided, we keep the first for next year if we miss the playoffs (huge deal with how deep the draft is). I don’t get the freak out, Miller is a legit player

He is a player. Its not that...its that a rebuilding team should hang onto 1st rounders especially when your gms greatest attribute is judging amateur talent.

And shouldn't overpay in a market where other cash strapped teams are paying high prices for cap space.

And if they were going to overpay a 1st, 3rd and prospect to a cash strapped team, perhaps it should have been at a time when trying to move from competitive to contending rather than from subpar to competitive. Either way I don't think the addition of JT gets you there. For such substantive assets I would have hoped to see more of a game changer (whether O or D).

[Cousin Strawberry]

Lots of forward talent in the pipe now...what about that defense though?

[Cornuck]

6th round - #156: Arturs Silovs G LVA 6' 4" 203 RUSSIA-JR. RIGA 2

[Blob Mckenzie]

This is yet another massive overpayment by JB - and just when I was getting to like him.

A 3rd and a first - how the hell does JB manage to get bent over the barrel by a cap strapped team. Perhaps he heard the term "weaponized capspace" and understood it to mean the inverse.

Klown gets raped in his own barn with 20,000 idiots watching

[Richardstroker69]

I like this trade, immediate impact on top 6, 4 more years at a cost controlled contract, big 200 ft player, ntc now voided, we keep the first for next year if we miss the playoffs (huge deal with how deep the draft is). I don’t get the freak out, Miller is a legit player

He is a player. Its not that...its that a rebuilding team should hang onto 1st rounders especially when your gms greatest attribute is judging amateur talent.

And shouldn't overpay in a market where other cash strapped teams are paying high prices for cap space.

And if they were going to overpay a 1st, 3rd and prospect to a cash strapped team, perhaps it should have been at a time when trying to move from competitive to contending rather than from subpar to competitive. Either way I don't think the addition of JT gets you there. For such substantive assets I would have hoped to see more of a game changer (whether O or D).

Miller isn’t a cap dump, Callahan going on ltir relieves most of Tampa’s issues, Miller is a 50 point versatile winger that’s cost controlled with no trade protection through his prime. The difference between competitive and contending is nothing in a salary cap world, if we improve the d we’re a playoff team, I’d take our core in the playoffs over anybody in the pacific. Pearson bo and miller are gonna be tough to handle.

[Cherry Picker]

I like that they take a goalie each draft.

[Per]

6th round - #156: Arturs Silovs G LVA 6' 4" 203 RUSSIA-JR. RIGA 2

Say what?! A Latvian goalie?
Second coming of Arturs Irbe?

[DonCherry4PM]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/can ... ck-sharks/

Is it possible for JB to make a trade without downgrading or discarding a pick?

[DonCherry4PM]

I like that they take a goalie each draft.

Probably good practice at least in the later rounds.

[Mickey107]

Lots of forward talent in the pipe now...what about that defense though?

If he's leaving the major young core together, it's a matter of spending cap money now to upgrade the defense.
Don't see any other way.

Travis Green just said he envisions Miller on the line with Petey and Brock.

[Mickey107]