Minnesota Wild development camp welcomed six Minnesota natives this past weekend, and Minnesota Hockey executive director Glen Andresen explains how so many State of Hockey born make it to the NHL.
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lets go blues !
For every Delano, there's a community fading into obscurity, like Richfield or Robbinsdale. Hell they even took my schools jersey off the wall at the x after they combined with the school across town. Still waiting for them to put up a Armstrong/Cooper jersey. Scumbags.
Very passionate guest, hockey needs people like this in the background monitoring the numbers etc.
I also agree with the reaction the Stramel pick received. My heavens, 18 year old, still growing and dealing with a parent passing plus college, my heavens, that’s a lot thrown at a young kid.
Great show…
My mantra for drafting in sports is always Best Player Available. This narrative, "You wanted size, and the Wild drafted size, so you can't complain," is really not logically consistent with that mantra. If a player is rated 41st on many draft boards, but he gets drafted at 21, there is always going to be criticism no matter if the guy is 6'3" and looks like he will be cast as the next Terminator. In the theater that is the NHL draft, there will always be critics – even though the reality of the outcomes of these picks will take time to be realized.
To say that there were no trades does not logically mean there could not be trades. It means either the trade packages offered were not good enough to entice a trade, teams were waiting for players on their board that looked like they could fall to them, or both. If Bill Guerin had not wasted so much draft capital at the trade deadline these past two seasons, perhaps the Wild could have had enough draft capital in place to move up for Moore and then come back in and pick up Stramel. Perhaps not, but we will never know. As it is, Moore went to the archrival Blackhawks, and he will likely be the one two punch with Bedard that Toews was with Kane albeit with their positions reversed.
To say Stramel is a reach by looking at this season's predraft reports, one has plenty of evidence to back that up, as most reports had Stramel as an early to mid second round value. Fans and pundits ask why the Wild did not trade back if Stramel was their target, and they ask if he was the Best Plater Available at that spot. That is a logical conclusion to make and logical questions to ask – especially from a GM that has no previously drafted players on a first or second line or pairing on any team in the NHL.
The opposing view, and likely the Wild's front office and scouting view, is if Stramel had been draft eligible one year earlier, he could have been a top ten pick, and he is still that player. His relatively weak showing in his freshman season at Wisconsin dropped him down considerably on many draft boards. The Wild are banking not only on that season being a fluke but also that the teams behind them in the first round also believed it to be a fluke and would have taken him regardless of how the predraft boards this season rated him. Both must have been true to avoid this choice being a reach.
Wild fans must now hope that Stramel is indeed the second coming of the Terminator, and other players drafted immediately behind him are not as comparatively skilled as draft pundits, or the Wild front office, originally thought. Being a workout warrior that crushes the combine metrics does not make a star NHL player. One must remember that Arnold Schwarzenegger was just playing the role of a Terminator, but he was not really one, and in the NHL, only reality counts.
Yes , there is pressure to play a sport all year and not just in hockey .