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About This Page: This is a discussion on LA Kings Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Originally Posted by Airos
strickland can be trusted unlike ecklund.
They said the same thing about Hitler.
i would like to see Myers get picked just so the Kings could add some size to their blueline and have a Chara-like player in three years. Doughty seems to be too similar to a visnovsky-harrold-hickey type of d-man. don't need that.
may wanna read up on him a bit. he's a great all around defenseman, but isnt overly physical. If i remember correctly he got voted best defensive d-man in the OHL this year (I think).
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Originally Posted by Birdman
Having Lombardi float a rumor that Doughty is going to be a pick could just be a smokescreen. If he's truly interested in another player, and there are other teams sitting right behind him that WANT Doughty, then floating this rumor enables them to try and drive up the price for the #2 pick so that they can slide back a couple of picks and then draft the kid they TRULY want who is actually rated 24th. Now they can grab more assets earlier in the draft, or possibly an additional 1st round pick next season.
Thats what I'm saying!!!
Yeah, I don't see at all how the Kings could be taking Doughty no questions asked. The top 3-4 are so close that anything can happen. I really don't see us taking Doughty at #2 (I know, a big suprise to some of you lol).
I'm not sure why anyone from the Kings would tell a single person who we are looking for unless it was just a BS conversation. Yeah, we want Doughty because we have the #2 pick, and in many if not most rankings he is the #2 guy. Does not mean ****.
LMAO...I always find it humorous when people tout draft prospects as solid NHL players before they've ever even hit the ice at the NHL level. Hickey, Doughty, Schenn, Bogosian, etc. could all turn out to be busts and never see more than a handful shifts on an NHL line, let alone be the anchor for the next five years.
well, friend, it can't be THAT humourous...
you're going to find, through the years, that the percentages are solid for top-5 picks on the blueline, guys chosen that high generally spend quality time in the big show.
sure, you can find exceptions, but more recently -- new training regimens, intense scouting, yadda yadda -- these top guys are very near certainly going to make an impact in the NHL.
Me too, this is a real bonafide shocker. Surprised hockey buzz was the first to scoop this big story. I wonder who there sources are?
hip, are you still here spouting your weak takes and nonsense?
great!
hope all's well, brother : )
pretty exciting time for kings fans, huh?
i've had opportunities to see nearly all of these kids play over the past year, and i'd hate to be the Guy in Charge. bogosian seemed very much like doughty, to be honest, as far as his skating/puckhandling. doughty may be a slightly more dynamic offensive player (perhaps slightly more than slightly), but for my money, i'd like to see a lot more toughness on the blueline. and yet, there's something about bogosian, some intangible that i can't quite name, that makes him seem like perhaps his potential does not touch doughty's. still, he's got a lot more of the scott stevens lunchbox attitude, and man o man i'd love to see that here in l.a.
so i don't know. perhaps ideally we could trade out of that spot (for a veteran and a just-lower pick), pick up schenn, and pair him (once again) with hickey, at some point. i'd rather they NOT deal cammy, personally. guarantee he'll score 40 goals in his first non-kings season. come on, we all know it's a virtual given, right? so why do it? work out a better deal with him (after a crap season, now'd be a good time) and see how he can grow with this group. the guy's got game.
I am more interested in our secondary picks this year, because the # 2 pick will get us a bonafide stud, irregardless if it is doughty or not.....its our wealth of 2nd & 3rd round picks that has me salivating. Lombardi has proven with san jose and his first few years drafting in L.A. that he is a great late round scout. Some of the key guys in San Jose's core were late round picks by DL ( cheechoo, clowe, murray, etc. ) and if his la picks, simmonds, moller, cameron, martinez. etc. pan out ..we will be laughing all the way to the cup in 4-5 years
well, friend, it can't be THAT humourous...
you're going to find, through the years, that the percentages are solid for top-5 picks on the blueline, guys chosen that high generally spend quality time in the big show.
sure, you can find exceptions, but more recently -- new training regimens, intense scouting, yadda yadda -- these top guys are very near certainly going to make an impact in the NHL.
so it's not all that funny, really.
D
Actually, pal, it could be. There are no guarantees in this life and it would be true Kings luck to draft a defenseman with the #2 overall that either gets a career ending injury or just never pans out as touted. Just because it hasn't happened in the near past doesn't mean it can't.
I am more interested in our secondary picks this year, because the # 2 pick will get us a bonafide stud, irregardless if it is doughty or not.....its our wealth of 2nd & 3rd round picks that has me salivating. Lombardi has proven with san jose and his first few years drafting in L.A. that he is a great late round scout. Some of the key guys in San Jose's core were late round picks by DL ( cheechoo, clowe, murray, etc. ) and if his la picks, simmonds, moller, cameron, martinez. etc. pan out ..we will be laughing all the way to the cup in 4-5 years
symbology
