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Post by Briwhel on May 17, 2024 9:12:13 GMT -4
I had the same question i was told draft week so around june 1st Traditionally, it opens the day before (the Friday) The Wednesday is the Commissioner's press conference to open the season and committee meetings and I believe there is a golf tourney on the Thursday. Something to consider is that the draft was originally announced (I found an article from TJ from last July) as a Friday-Saturday draft where the first round would be Friday night (which could theoretically change everything) but all of the current info on the QMJHL site is indicating that the draft is only Jun 8th. Also, the Friday trade window is usually only from 10-11 so its usually incredibly rare to see any trades made and announced on Friday. After that window, any trades involving 2024 picks have to wait for the earliest 2024 pick involved to be announced. Any trades that do not involve 2024 picks have to wait for one of the scheduled breaks to be announced (I do not know which round it is, but at a certain point later in the draft, the Q allows trades to be announced immediately if they only involve future picks and/or players. |
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Post by jangle on May 17, 2024 11:18:09 GMT -4
Traditionally, it opens the day before (the Friday) The Wednesday is the Commissioner's press conference to open the season and committee meetings and I believe there is a golf tourney on the Thursday. Something to consider is that the draft was originally announced (I found an article from TJ from last July) as a Friday-Saturday draft where the first round would be Friday night (which could theoretically change everything) but all of the current info on the QMJHL site is indicating that the draft is only Jun 8th. Also, the Friday trade window is usually only from 10-11 so its usually incredibly rare to see any trades made and announced on Friday. After that window, any trades involving 2024 picks have to wait for the earliest 2024 pick involved to be announced. Any trades that do not involve 2024 picks have to wait for one of the scheduled breaks to be announced (I do not know which round it is, but at a certain point later in the draft, the Q allows trades to be announced immediately if they only involve future picks and/or players. Thanks for explaining all of that! |
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Post by galixon on May 17, 2024 13:45:48 GMT -4
Traditionally, it opens the day before (the Friday) The Wednesday is the Commissioner's press conference to open the season and committee meetings and I believe there is a golf tourney on the Thursday. Something to consider is that the draft was originally announced (I found an article from TJ from last July) as a Friday-Saturday draft where the first round would be Friday night (which could theoretically change everything) but all of the current info on the QMJHL site is indicating that the draft is only Jun 8th. Also, the Friday trade window is usually only from 10-11 so its usually incredibly rare to see any trades made and announced on Friday. After that window, any trades involving 2024 picks have to wait for the earliest 2024 pick involved to be announced. Any trades that do not involve 2024 picks have to wait for one of the scheduled breaks to be announced (I do not know which round it is, but at a certain point later in the draft, the Q allows trades to be announced immediately if they only involve future picks and/or players. The first round is still on the Friday night… where does it say on their website that its only on June 8th? |
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Post by Briwhel on May 17, 2024 19:24:51 GMT -4
Something to consider is that the draft was originally announced (I found an article from TJ from last July) as a Friday-Saturday draft where the first round would be Friday night (which could theoretically change everything) but all of the current info on the QMJHL site is indicating that the draft is only Jun 8th. Also, the Friday trade window is usually only from 10-11 so its usually incredibly rare to see any trades made and announced on Friday. After that window, any trades involving 2024 picks have to wait for the earliest 2024 pick involved to be announced. Any trades that do not involve 2024 picks have to wait for one of the scheduled breaks to be announced (I do not know which round it is, but at a certain point later in the draft, the Q allows trades to be announced immediately if they only involve future picks and/or players. The first round is still on the Friday night… where does it say on their website that its only on June 8th? |
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Post by galixon on May 18, 2024 19:35:30 GMT -4
Oh weird, I didn’t even notice that.. must be an error. The Wildcats have been posting stuff with the two days listed |
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Post by WHEELsnipePARTY on May 18, 2024 19:50:57 GMT -4
Oh weird, I didn’t even notice that.. must be an error. The Wildcats have been posting stuff with the two days listed Last I saw the draft order was just by alphabetical too so it’s probably just an error |
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Post by Score on May 22, 2024 9:02:03 GMT -4
One thing about the draft and Jim Hulton, he has had some luck landing talented players later in the draft.
Owen Conrad #20
Marcus Kearsey #32
Matthew Butler #81
Could the trend continue this year?
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Post by Briwhel on May 22, 2024 9:10:48 GMT -4
One thing about the draft and Jim Hulton, he has had some luck landing talented players later in the draft. Owen Conrad #20 Marcus Kearsey #32 Matthew Butler #81 Could the trend continue this year? The CSR list doesn't look too highly on the Atlantic kids. Couple that with the Atlantic teams not having a lot of picks and there is likely going to be 1 or more Atlantic kids who drops to a pick they shouldn't available for Hulton. Right now, Charlottetown's picks lines up to CSR for Batchilder (and I wouldn't be shocked if he was available) but there could be others who drop. Once you get past the 3rd round, you could get into players that Charlottetown could theoretically have a better take on than most of the Quebec teams. I don't know that I would put Butler with the other two (not impact, but because he was a NCAA kid who was arguably rated lower), but if Charlottetown acquires a higher pick, there are a few guys who could drop for NCAA reasons who could be available to Charlottetown and not necessarily some of the teams with pick in the mid 1st to mid 2nd range. |
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Post by countryboy on May 22, 2024 9:50:32 GMT -4
As we have discussed on multiple occasions, as it stands right now we're only slated to have two picks in the first 5 rounds.... that's basically 2 picks in the top 100... our own 2024 3rd and 5th. I'd be surprised if we enter the draft and only end up making selections with those picks.... but if we did, there would be zero room for error. You would need to draft 2 players who eventually become QMJHL players.
But realistically, Hulton will need to add to the pick pool one way or another. I'm not fussy about using 2025 selections to add 2024 picks. We have our own 2025 1st and Gatineau's 2025 2nd. But then for the 2025 draft we don't have our own 2nd, 3rd, or 4th. It would be unwise to use the 2025 1st to acquire picks for this year and even if using the 2025 Gat 2nd, I'd want to do a deal where we use it to maybe acquire a 2024 3rd and a 2025 3rd to retain the 2025 pick depth.
To accumulate picks, maybe we will have to be dealing players. The hot talk on the boards is a potential Kearsey trade. But beyond that what are potential options that we could use to bring in draft pick depth?
We have a lot of blueline depth on our roster.
For LHD we could bring back:
Michel (04)
Jardine (05)
Kearsey (06)
Duguay (06)
Conrad (07)
Plamondon (07)
The RH side is a lot thinner:
Vos (04)
Topilnyckyj (05)
Another area of depth is in goal. Bickle was our MVP and his strong second half means you strongly consider him as a 20. Donald Hickey has signed and would have to be considered to be a clear option for a roster spot. But then we had strong Jr. A playoff performances from each of Niko Boudreau and Jack Flanagan. I know that Flanagan has had a lot of ups and downs as a major junior player and now he's suddenly 19....but you also have to remember that goalie development is very unpredictable. Do we consider the strong playoff performances from both Boudreau and Flanagan as a signal that maybe either could be a major junior goalie in the fall (presumably to play with Hickey) and then can we organize a deal where Bickle is dealt and we use Hughes/Vos/Michel as 20's?
Last year the plan looked to be to use Ozols/Boudreau as our goaltending tandem until Bickle became available. At the time Jim said that it was necessary to bring in a goalie with major junior experience to pair with Ozols. For this year, neither Boudreau nor Flanagan has much in the way of major junior experience to pair with Hickey. But is there a deal where we can acquire something for Bickle from a team looking to use a 20 slot on goaltending. Dealing away 20 y/o players typically brings back underwhelming returns, but goaltending is an area of depth where we could consider sending away players to bring in picks.
Certainly there are some tough decisions ahead where management might need to show some creativity in bringing back picks....but we need additional picks in the upcoming draft beyond what we have on paper right now.
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Post by Briwhel on Jun 4, 2024 9:03:57 GMT -4
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Post by davo1997 on Jun 4, 2024 9:07:00 GMT -4
Nice add for the Islanders |
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Post by countryboy on Jun 4, 2024 9:31:11 GMT -4
Goriunov is good and we are quite thin at 20. So it's an add that helps our hockey team be a little better this year.
But it continues the trend of dealing away future picks, and we know we don't have a great supply of these. For 2026 we have now moved our 3rd and 5th.
Our 20's on roster would include:
Bickle
Vos
Michel
Goriunov
Hughes
and we need to go with 3 of those.
And I expect this means that we are moving on from Maruna and plan to draft 1 Euro later this month.
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Post by Briwhel on Jun 4, 2024 9:40:04 GMT -4
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Post by Score on Jun 4, 2024 9:51:09 GMT -4
He will definitely help with their lack of offense.
Will be interesting to see what they do in goal.
I would think that Hickey has a job....but then you have Bickle,Boudreau, Ozols....
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Post by davo1997 on Jun 4, 2024 9:54:44 GMT -4
He will definitely help with their lack of offense. Will be interesting to see what they do in goal. I would think that Hickey has a job....but then you have Bickle,Boudreau, Ozols.... Titan might be in need of a goalie as well. Keller wont be back and i dont want to see fleming as 20 |
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