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2025 NHL Draft thread

herman

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Leafs pick:
Rd 2. from FLA #64: Tinus Luc Koblar C - Left shot 6’4” 189 lbs
Rd 3. from SJS (originally COL) #86: Tyler Hopkins C - left shot 6'1" 181 lbs
Rd 5. from PIT #137: William Belle RW - Right shot 6’4” 225 lbs
Rd 5. #153: Harry Nansi RW — Right shot 6’3” 185 lbs
Rd 6. #185: Rylan Fellinger RD - Right shot 6’4” 196 lbs
Rd 7. #217: Matthew Hlacar LW - Left shot 6’3” 215 lbs

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939088160052650004

Draft combine starts tomorrow and lasts the week.

Draft weekend is June 27, 28 in Los Angeles
 
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herman said:
Leafs pick:
Rd 2. from FLA
Rd 3. from SJS (originally COL)
Rd 5. from PIT
Rd 5.
Rd 6.
Rd 7.

Draft combine starts tomorrow and lasts the week.

Draft weekend is June 27, 28 in LA.
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Brutal what we have been giving away year after year and basically for no gain. Leafs should trade away the 3 picks and save team money and not even show up. I used to look forward to the draft not anymore.
 
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My NHL Draft Manifesto

It's draft season, so I thought I'd put all my mean thoughts about the draft, draft picks and the value of prospects in one place.
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I like Brian's articles particularly because of how he thinks about prospects in terms of skills that can show improvement and those less likely to. Over the years, he's developed ideas about defencemen and what they need to be able to do that match my own very closely, and it's funny that we never talked about it, he just wrote something, and I wrote something and they more or less said the same thing.

I think these ideas about defence are shared by Brad Treliving and Craig Berube to a very large degree, and not by Kyle Dubas or Sheldon Keefe. And this is the area where I think Treliving has succeeded the most in making the Leafs into a different team.

The other thing Treliving has done is traded draft picks in a way I strongly disapprove of. He's kept far too many.
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Are you thinking about the long-term project with the player, or is it about value at the position?
Leach: Personally, you take the best available player talent-wise at that pick. When you get down to #64 and that area, these players take a little longer to develop, or it is maybe not a straight line to get where they want to go from A to B. You just be patient with them, be patient with the development, and see where they end up in a few years.

These kids, most of them, are three to five years away. The top picks in the draft have the best chance, but after that, it is a process.

Is there a specific type of player you’d like to take at #64?

Leach: I am just looking for the best available talent and a guy who competes and works hard. It is really about what falls. At that point in the draft, there will be kids who have little issues in their game. If there weren’t, they would be in the top 10. But they all have some talent and some elite level that helps them out and we’ll try to pick up and get to.
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2025 NHL Draft Profiles: Bob McKenzie Final Rankings

Bob McKenzie has released his final rankings ahead of the NHL draft tomorrow, so let's look at how realistic the players I profiled will be for Toronto.
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I've spent all of June publishing all of the draft profiles for players that I think could be of interest for the Toronto Maple Leafs in this year's NHL draft – after months of researching and writing them all beforehand.

Something I always remarked was that I'm making a guess on who might be available where Toronto picks based on what I'm reading from various scouts, mostly those that are the most accurate for actual draft day results. More than anyone else, that means Bob McKenzie.

However, the tricky part for me is that it takes me, as I said, literally months to research and write all these profiles, but he doesn't release his final rankings until right before the draft. In this case, he published his final rankings on Monday. So, this article will talk about all of the players I've profiled and see how his new final rankings affect my guess for each player's draft range.
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Bob McKenzie's list

Gonna hitch my wagon to the Hayden Paupanekis train, who I first heard about today, the day of the draft.
 
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