Recrutes Preliminary Top 10 Mock Draft - Prospect Talk #42

On this episode of The Sick Podcast, Grant McCagg, Shayne Gaumond and Rocco Zappia discuss Recrutes' preliminary top ten mock draft, the prospects of the week and more!

[@trevorbabineau5065]

It's not about winning the lottery, it's about getting the best pick possible. 5th pick is better than 7th

[@Off_Grid_Gaming]

Exactly 💯 % It's amazing how many people can't comprehend this

[@jordanyoung2280]

I don't think it's the 1% to win it , as much as picking 2 spots higher and having a better chance at the player you want . But I agree not much different and your targeted player could drop anyways

[@GrantMcCagg-yn4fy]

As has been explained several times...it really won't make a huge difference if they pick 5 or 7. Much more important for the current team to win some games down the stretch than picking a spot or two higher as u can throw picks 5-7 in a hat and coose any of them

[@jeffreynoury1637]

Yeah, for example Habs pick 7th, and Lidstrom is available at pick 6, and ends up being taken.

[@moviestoshare813]

@@GrantMcCagg-yn4fy If Parekh is there at 5, Habs pick 7th Parekh gone by 7th pick and goes on to becoming an Erik Karlsson 2.0 … Then yes, it will end up having made a HUGE Difference

[@vincentcote8687]

I wasn't sure about Grant's take on Yakemchuk with the Habs at first, but after hearing him out, he really convinced me that it might be a really good pick (if that happens). Just imagine the defense in 2-3 years, that's the type of D-core that makes you win championships. Great podcast as always!

[@FooFahFoeFum]

Size and skill is much better than Small & skill.

[@HeroicHarmony]

I agree with everything you just said!

[@Mario.Boudreau.65]

How they will keep and pay all those defend if they turn the way there are talking about in 4 years

[@finalguildis]

​@Mario.Boudreau.65 you can trade them for forward talent. There is way more value in a good dman than a good forward.

[@jacqueslachance2741]

❤ Love the show ,looking on you tube after fact so maybe ask both if the choice of tall big defenseman the effect of Xhekaj beeing looked over by every team but the habs

[@Lebowski55]

The Blackhawks won 3 Stanley Cups with Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Niklas Hjalmarsson. Best D core in hockey.

[@Dcheen]

Have gut feeling that Habs will draft Eiserman

[@powers1500]

I agree too

[@moviestoshare813]

Since they emphasize CHARACTER so much… I would actually tend to say the complete OPPOSITE.

[@Lebowski55]

If you have a top 4 pick on your 2nd line, thats a great thing because it means you have a deep team. Patrick Kane was the 1st overall pick and won 3 Stanley Cups on the 2nd line.

[@italian1ist]

The ducks have some good defensive prospects but I would say they are as stacked with sure things like you said. Feel like it would be a very very good idea to take another rhd like Levshunov. They are absolutely stacked with young forwards and have Carlsson, McTavish, Zegras down the middle. Could see Zegras maybe being put on the wing and C. Gauthier being a winger too.

[@jasdosanjh7211]

I take Levshunov or Silayev before Yakemchuk

And Dickinson.

[@moviestoshare813]

Levshunov & Silayev are the two highest bust potential at the top end of the draft imo.

[@jasdosanjh7211]

I was leaning towards Levshunov as the best dman but after the run Buium had in the Ncaa frozen 4, i think Buium might be the best.​@moviestoshare813

[@powers1500]

Most fans are hoping for a big forward such as Lindstrom but he will surely be already gone...Levshunov,Parekh or Yakemcuk then become the best players available from 5th to 7th. However, I would not be surprised at all if Montreal drafted Eiserman because they really need scoring on their top 6 !!!

[@bajjanitor]

Regarding the 'who is Columbus future powerplay quarterback?' isn't that Werenski for the foreseeable future then Mateychuk? And Jiricek have definitely shown enough offensive talent that he may become an adequate PP QB as well. I think that's a strong enough plan at the very least that it isn't a hole they have to reach to fill.

[@fosterch11]

Down the road. Not sure we can afford to take another dman with defensive issues? Guhle-Yakemchuk? Hutson-Reinbacher X-Mailloux

[@TrendyTopiques]

Hughes is gonna make a huge move at the trade. Whether it's moving up or trading for a player already in the NHL. If the Habs wanna take the next step next year. They need to add scoring. I believe they're close enough to start adding.

[@FooFahFoeFum]

Our best trade baits are Mailloux and or Caufield + a 1st round draft pick. ..... To get back a larger 6-2/205+ pound powerforward....

[@FooFahFoeFum]

Why does the NHL keep records of hits/bodychecks per 60 minutes ? ....Example: - 2020 Ovechkin 6-3/230 not only scored goals but he delivered HITS & SANDPAPER. ......Ovechkin had more hits (6.89 per 60 minutes), than ((Mathews 1.21 + Marner 1.17 + Tavares 1.68 + Nylander 0.81 = 4.87). The leaf’s will never win a cup because their top 4 forwards are soft, non combative and afraid of getting hit.

[@Lebowski55]

The Canadiens traded the #13 overall pick in the 2022 NHL draft to acquire Kirby Dach

[@dahabs123]

i want a new list

[@tintin7548]

Buffalo picking up Catton would be too much

[@shayneloney1513]

Demidov lindstrom parehk, yakemchuk, catton for the Habs

[@Robin.Woods.]

Zero chance they take Catton

[@bushidodog]

The 1% chance doesn't make any difference can be appled all the way down the line, until you have 0% chance of winning EITHER lottery. Vegas obviousy ascribes to that philosophy, and it has worked for them, but it's fraught with peril, and inevitability they will have to pay the piper.

[@thartley16]

Thomas Bordeleau undersized but stud

[@royanderson3478]

Thomas Bourdelou? SJS 2019? Draft pic 32 overall? Smaller guy, but good future. Another Brayden Point 👉, you never know.

[@royanderson3478]

Hope SJS get #1

[@littlewormjacob7343]

whats up with Igor Surin

[@moviestoshare813]

Hope Habs pick him either with their late 1st or 2nd rounder

[@maxpatenaude2115]

Eiserman to the Habs.

[@elvisisalive2716]

lol at Grant having the Habs pass on that legit forward talent for another Dman, too funny. Dude's on crack. And yes, Catton or Iginla could slide in the Habs top 6, no question in the next 2 years.

[@jordanstittpropertygroup9246]

Werenski is 26 and signed for 5 more years.

[@thartley16]

Anaheim isnt passing on Parekh Grant cmon

[@jasdosanjh7211]

Bedard and Deminov would be Toews and Kane 2.0

[@Whatdoingdog44]

So which one is selke caliber player? Because it is not bedard or Deminov…

[@bushidodog]

Montreal won't pass on Eiserman, I think they may even trade up for him. They will finish the season with just 2 20 goal scorers, and a boatload of promising young defence prospects. Remember what Bergevin said at the draft table in 2019. when a pure scorer out of the USNTDP unexpectedly dropped....... "We need the goals". That is obviously still the case.

[@kennethkingelin6437]

Please don't take Eisenman

[@finalguildis]

Eiserman is just a glider.. most likely won't be a good playoff player.. taking a dman isn't a bad thing. If there is a player available with only 2nd line potential and a top D available.. you take the dman. It would be alot easier to trade one of their dman for a good forward than pick what may be available.. I'd only go for demidov, Lindstrom, catton. If they aren't available and a top D is available I take the Dman. You probably be able to trade that dman for a way better forward than what would be available at that pick.

[@Robin.Woods.]

I thought Silayev would be top 10

[@italian1ist]

He will

[@Robin.Woods.]

​@@italian1istI think so too. And Levshunov will be taken before Yakemchuk. Better skater and higher ceiling

[@moviestoshare813]

@@Robin.Woods. Levshunov & Silayev are the two highest bust potential at the top of the draft imo

[@maximuminc.7997]

Another d would be such a wasted 2 years of rebuild

[@thartley16]

Columbus gonna win the lottery

[@YvonjrPierre-mb9hp]

Chicago.gonna.win.lottery.big.deal.

[@italian1ist]

Iginla is probably going lower. Salyev is def going in the top 10 and Levshunov will go higher

[@moviestoshare813]

Levshunov & Silayeve are the two highest bust potential imo.

[@kennethkingelin6437]

Habs will take a forward

[@noluck9679]

Good lord no way should habs draft a defender.

[@finalguildis]

If there is only a player available with 2nd line potential and not first and a dman with top line potential is still available.. they pick the D. D have a higher value than forwards.. itl be easy to trade one of their dmen for a package and getting a good high end forward or one with second line potential who's further into development. Would make more sense.

[@mattatr0n677]

Yakemchuk is not a high value pick at 6

[@moviestoshare813]

Same mentality that led Habs to take KK instead of Tkachuk 🥰

[@shayleedarwin6559]

💪 "Promosm"

[@FooFahFoeFum]

If the Habs fall to the 6th or 7th pick .... I would trade the over rated shrimp forward [ Caufield 5-9/175 + 1st round pick ] for a power forward between 22 and 27 years old.... B, Tkachuck 6-4/212 .... Svetchinkov 6-2/195..... I. Barbeshev 6-0/190 .... L. Crouse 6-4/220 ... J. Erikson 6-1/210....

[@michaelwou1667]

And that’s why you’ll never be a GM and just end up living in your mom’s basement.

[@FooFahFoeFum]

@@michaelwou1667 Example: - 2020 Ovechkin 6-3/230 not only scored goals but he delivered HITS & SANDPAPER. .... Ovechkin had more hits (6.89 per 60 minutes), than ((Mathews 1.21 + Marner 1.17 + Tavares 1.68 + Nylander 0.81 = 4.87). The leaf’s will never win a cup because their top 4 forwards are soft, and afraid of getting hit.

[@michaelwou1667]

@@FooFahFoeFum That’s a clown example. None of the guys you named are Ovechkin from the early years and if there was an Ovi, we wouldn’t be able to afford him. So what are you saying? Nothing, period.

[@pilonpatrick573]

​@@michaelwou1667, that "shrimp forward" insult deserved an insult going back. Well done.

[@michaelgardner1795]

I don’t see how you can take any whl forward before catton. He carries a team by himself and got a 116 points doing it. Lindrstrom is great but I would take catton over him in the draft.

[@noluck9679]

Malkin plays on the 2nd line and he was 2nd overall gimme a break with you don’t wanna top4 pick on your 2nd line. I can see why he’s a former scout.

[@crooks999]

1- Celebrini 2-Silayev 3-Lindstrom 4-Jiricek 5-Levshunov 6-Eiserman 7-Demidov 8-Parekh 9-Buium 10-Helenius

[@MasterMatt25]

Jiricek at 4?

[@DKHD176]

Jiricek has been injured for a significant amount of time. He won't go 4th, especially with all the other options available.

[@crooks999]

I think he has the most potential of all the right defenseman

[@YvonjrPierre-mb9hp]

1.macklin.celebrini.land.to.chicago.big.deal.

[@italian1ist]

Lay off the bong hits. Jiricek isn’t going 4th

[@licmysak7842]

🤮

[@FooFahFoeFum]

Slavkosky does not have the temperament to be a sandpaper type ... Bring a baseball bat to a knife fight ..... MTL management does not understand that a player 6-2/210 pound with 20 goals and (10.0 hits per 60 minutes) ......... is more valuable than a 5-9/175 pound thirty goal scorer and (1 hit per 60 minutes) played. IMO every team needs two large, heavy SANDPAPER players in the top 6 FORWARDS. ...

[@moviestoshare813]

Caufield is 5’7. Not 5’9