yes.

they better trade down if they aren't picking gormley or fowler

[Edited on June 25, 2010 at 8:13 PM. Reason : FUCK]

6/25/2010 8:11:28 PM

if only i was down the street at Rudinos


they pick that figure skating dude? lol

6/25/2010 8:13:44 PM

Skinner.

6/25/2010 8:13:49 PM

Why Skinner, when we could've gotten Fowler?

6/25/2010 8:13:53 PM

WTF

6/25/2010 8:14:37 PM

^^ JR doesn't like picking d-men in the draft. Would've loved Fowler though.

[Edited on June 25, 2010 at 8:15 PM. Reason : tbdv]

6/25/2010 8:14:50 PM

wtf, Skinner?

6/25/2010 8:15:34 PM

6/25/2010 8:16:26 PM

Well, he did score a shitload of goals. But one of the defenseman would be nice.

6/25/2010 8:17:06 PM

we did need some help there

6/25/2010 8:17:37 PM

Looks like he can score though, he put up the most goals in his league. Only issue I had with Fowler was that a few months ago he looked like a sure fire top 3 pick, then he drops past 7.

6/25/2010 8:18:28 PM

How does Gormley and Fowler drop so far? Amazing how many teams have passed on those two consecutively.

6/25/2010 8:24:04 PM

Vulcan91 is pissed:

Quote :

" Another year, another off the wall waste of a first round pick. Fuck this piece of shit organization and fuck my life. Glad I spent the entire year and all that money watching them lose games so they could flush a 7th round pick down the toilet."

6/25/2010 8:26:10 PM

Skinner did score more goals than Hall though.

But yeah this sucks, I wanted Fowler

6/25/2010 8:28:46 PM

I wonder if now having a big goal scoring winger to add to the system, if this makes guys like Bowman expendable to trade for a defenseman this summer and avoid the waiting period JR hates for defensemen.

6/25/2010 8:32:26 PM

Well, we now know that JR was not going to draft a defenseman no matter what. So the way the draft played out was the worst that it could have gone for us. All forwards have gone except for Gudbranson.

6/25/2010 8:32:50 PM

with Fowler dropping all the way to 12, I'm less pissed about picking a 70 goal scorer at 7.

this is Sweden btw.

6/25/2010 8:54:22 PM

Chad LaRose also scored more goals than Taylor Hall.

6/25/2010 8:55:35 PM

this explains why all those canes fans were at Rudinos

6/25/2010 9:08:56 PM

yeah but chad was like 20-21 when he scored a shitload

skinner is only 18

2 years is a big difference in the ohl, don't you agree?

6/25/2010 9:22:08 PM

wow, Skinner is ranked 34th by Central Scouting. Rutherford should have at least traded back to 15th and still got him.

6/25/2010 9:23:23 PM

skinner wouldnt have lasted that far

plenty of people were high on this kid

6/25/2010 9:28:24 PM

wow, habs drafted mark tinordi's son

i am OLD

6/25/2010 10:39:18 PM

maybe the Canes can draft one of the US d-men tomorrow. Hopefully, Jon Merrill will still be there at 37th.

6/25/2010 10:41:34 PM

I hope to be quoting my rant above while eating crow a lot this year. But I hoped for that last year after my Philippe Paradis rant too.

6/25/2010 11:54:06 PM

funny how last year draft, Rutherford went out and got a bunch of size. This year, he went out and drafted a 5'10 guy.

6/26/2010 12:27:42 AM

i dont know, its not like we haven't seen undersized players succeed with the canes before

hope our recent luck with second round picks continues tomorrow

6/26/2010 12:33:24 AM

6/26/2010 12:45:08 AM

wow

well then

6/26/2010 1:25:10 AM

to be fair, they did those for everybody



but mr. skinner does seem to have a sense for the dramatic about him

6/26/2010 7:21:04 AM

well, JR did try to move back up to get one of Fowler/Gormley, so that's interesting.

though he is sometimes frustrating, i simply love the man.

6/26/2010 12:11:12 PM

I'd almost rather see us draft one of the high 2nd round defensemen today and then sign a more lock down d-man to a 2 or 3 year deal in FA than draft someone that was another offensive type defenseman. We've drafted well in the 2nd round recently, hopefully with 3 picks this year we can do just as well.

6/26/2010 12:48:44 PM

Justin Faulk

6/26/2010 1:22:20 PM

what the faulk!? sorry... too easy.

here's one scout's take on him:
"Really smart player is excellent triggerman on the power play with an absolute rocket point shot. Not tall, but built like a block of granite and packs a wallop on his hits - gets good leverage. Powerful and has a mean streak - likes to put a charge into puck carriers with their head down. Quick, smart puck mover. Great balance on skates. Competes like a bastard."

[Edited on June 26, 2010 at 1:27 PM. Reason : .]

6/26/2010 1:24:53 PM

traded our next pick for Oilers prospect, Riley Nash

6/26/2010 1:28:36 PM

Mark Alt. 6'3" 200lb stay-at-home D-man.

6/26/2010 2:01:22 PM

wow, Rutherford just went crazy today and select a bunch of D-men. Time to replenish the farm system.

6/26/2010 2:05:03 PM

there's the typical plymouth pick

6/26/2010 2:14:49 PM

^no doubt

6/26/2010 2:18:59 PM

RT @JeffMarek: NYR trade Bobby Sanguinetti to Carolina in exchange for picks according to @NYP_Brooksie

6/26/2010 2:23:46 PM

umm... what picks? can't they release that?

6/26/2010 2:48:06 PM

looks like a 2011 2nd round and a 2010 6th round

6/26/2010 3:06:43 PM

so he's cheap and he's most likely going to be on the team next year?

sounds good

[Edited on June 26, 2010 at 3:15 PM. Reason : and we are so trading pitkanen at some point this year ]

6/26/2010 3:13:54 PM

we better fucking not

why would we do that

6/26/2010 3:20:42 PM

ice_chip
Word is Canes will get center Jon Matsumoto, Flyers prospect who scored 30 goals at Adirondack last season.

6/26/2010 3:40:31 PM

WE TOOK ANOTHER STAHL!!

6/26/2010 3:53:45 PM

I wonder if he ever gets to the big club if people will spell his name Staal or Stall instead of the Stahl that he is.

6/26/2010 4:04:10 PM

never underestimate the ability of canes fans to misspell staal/stahl/stall

6/26/2010 4:09:05 PM

Quote :

"never underestimate the ability of canes fans to misspell staal/stahl/stallbe fucking retarded"

ftfy

6/26/2010 4:10:01 PM

pitkanen has 1 more year on his contract at like 4 mil or so doesn't he?

he's gonna want a lot to be resigned

i mean i want him and jussi to get extended yesterday, i just dont think JR is going to pay Pitkanen. I hope i'm wrong.

6/26/2010 4:26:17 PM