GRADING EACH TEAMS 2024 NHL DRAFT - PART 1 

The ducks are building a really solid roster

Beckette is sick. He lit it up in the postseason. He knows how to perform during big games.

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Habs got the better player. I'm stoked !

Yeah - not sure what my boy Verbeek was doing … time will tell

Not bad grades imo but really feel like levshunov is a B. Good prospect but for some people incounding myself have doubts about if he really is the best defenseman in the draft. With better options on D and demidov available, seems like the grade is high

People like to say verbeek had poor asset management, I imagine someone on his staff suggested moving down Two issues with that line of thought: 1) someone else may have wanted Sennecke. If Columbus or Ottawa took him, then the story is verbeek played himself 2) another team needs to want to move up, and we didn’t see any trades in the top 10. I imagine every teams draft boards looked different from one another, so other teams were probably sitting there thinking, well if we stand pat, we’ll get our guy I actually am very high on this pick, the only knocks against him that I’ve seen are his skating, which is due in part to his growth spurt. In terms of offense dude has the potential to be special, and he’s responsible defensively I also think the ducks are in a good position to take a swing since they’re pretty set on the prospect side of things. If a team like Chicago took him it would be a lot more questionable

Okay call me a biased Ducks fan (because I am) but I do think a lot of NHL scouts did think Sennecke would have gone in the top 5. No doubt if Anaheim took someone else, Columbus, Montreal, or even Utah might have a chance at him. I think people are going to look back at this draft in 4 years and think this draft order makes sense.

I would say A for Seattle. But thank thank you, they say Buium was there yeah i wanted him too but you can't have both, these 2 kids were BPA players at that point, people is sleeping on Catton, just like GM were when Benson fell. (an catton is bigger) Catton and Buium have the most potential steals to me.

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I was on the Demidov to Blackhawks train the whole season. Pretty upsetting we get a really bad defensive d man.. should have taken Zeev Buium instead 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Sennecke had a mediocre 1st half, but considering he grew from 5'11" to 6'3" during that period, it's kind of understandable. In the 2nd half of the season, he outproduced almost all other CHL draft eligible players. He was phenomenal during the playoffs. He's a great skater and has tremendous puck skills. His offensive upside is superior to Lindstrom. You rarely see this combination of size and skill. When you do, they go top 5. I'm from Montreal. We all though Lindstrom and Demidov would be gone by the 5th pick. Considering they wanted to pick a forward, it was between him and Tij. As much as I think Tij does everything right and is a terrific competitor, Sennecke's ceiling is higher. That being said, he's no Demidov. It seems Demidov is not a Verbeek type of player. We're thrilled to get him but I would not have been disappointed with Sennecke.