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Not too shabby for the pre Tallon era. Gotta believe these first 3 are going to be NHL regulars. That’s almost 40% success! Got to give some kudos to Scott Luce. Surely most of us figured Dale was going to bring in his own scout/draft guys when he came in, which he didn’t. How can anyone criticize Dale Tallon in any decision he’s made in what is still less than 2 years tenure?? Here is a real interesting link to past Panthers drafts. Luce has been instrumental selecting for the cats since 2002. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00005763.html
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that draft looks pretty poor to me. One player on an NHL roster as a seventh defenseman.
Two other guys who are borderline AHL/NHL players.
They could have had Kevin Shattenkirk if they wanted D in the first round.Max Pacioretty, Lars Eller and David Perron are players picked after Ellerby who would have been better picks imo.
Repik was taken ahead of P.K. Subban, T.J. Galiardi and Wayne Simmonds.
OK draft if Repik and Dads become NHL regulars and actually are somewhat effective. Could have been much better.
Hindsight is 50/50. The odds on the NHL draft on getting players that stay as NHL regulars is rather low actually.
Seeing Red since 1994.
I been following the game long enough to know that in spades :) That’s why sometimes I try to throw out a note of caution when everyone gets all lathered up about all the players that are supposed to be stepping into the lineup the next few years. Most of them aren’t going to amount to anything and some that do will do it somewhere else. Nature of the beast.
Note on Possibilities Missed
I don’t think anyone would claim it is a great draft, but it was better than some of the previous years.
Ellerby: Was 2nd-ranked d-man going into the draft. The fact that the Kings went off board to take Hickey (still no games in the NHL) at 4th overall let Ellerby drop to the Panthers. Shattenkirk was the fifth d-man selected that year, and is one of only four d-men selected that year to have played more NHL games than Ellerby (Alzner, 5th, 180 gms; Shattenkirk, 14th, 119 games; Subban, 43rd, 126 gms, and Gunnarsson, 194th, 158 gms). One of those was gone before Ellerby, so that leaves three. There were 11 d-men taken in the first round. Seven of them have combined to play 107 total games. Ellerby wasn’t the perfect pick there, but he wasn’t a miss.
Repik: Of the RWs, Repik has outperformed all but Wayne Simmonds (maybe the steal of the draft other than Gunnarsson), Matt Halischuk and perhaps Matt Frattin, but he’s just started his professional career, so we won’t know for a while yet. You could make a case for Dadonov, but it wouldn’t support this discussion.
Sure, it’s always possible to cherry pick the best “missed” draft picks, but you also have to look at the best “avoided” draft picks. The Panthers could have selected Alex Plante (15th, 10 gms played) or Ian Cole (18th, 43 gms). They could have selected Aaron Palushaj (44th, 18 gms, 0 pts) or Akim Aliu (56th, 0 gms), or any number of completely ineffective forwards instead of Repik. The five forwards taken directly before Repik have contributed a total of 5 nhl pts.
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by Brian_Fogarty on Jan 24, 2012 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
But Akim Aliu is soooooo cool!
I’m putting here for reflection later on in the season…. #14 Tomas [Fleischmann] is getting a 40G season. FLASH COUNT: 15G/19A
by RPC on Sep 17, 2011 5:20 PM MDT
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by Chris S Roberts on Jan 24, 2012 6:46 PM EST up reply actions
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