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2021 NHL Entry Draft Thread

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Ah fuck you Stevie.
 

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What's taking so long? I'm already in the third round of my drafts.
 

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I just learned that Cole Sillinger was born here in Columbus.

His dad played here for like 45 minutes.
 

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Whoa, Sens didn't take the goalie. Lil Boosh goes to Ottawa


And Weeksie takes up the awkward slack for Pierre with a readily available shirtless video of lil boosh
 

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I wonder if CBJ leaves the Medicine Hat Tiger for the Flames.
 

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*shakes fist at 43*
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Coronato is a goal scorer and the Flames have trouble scoring goals.

Of course, he's a Harvard guy so he'll stiff the Flames and sign with the Rags :(
 

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Luke saying he's excited to play with Jack and hoping to someday play with Quinn too.

Quinn Hughes to NJ e5



(I mean after what Jones got they can't afford him, right?)
 

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What's taking so long? I'm already in the third round of my drafts.
Really. This Pens fan just wanted to participate somehow.

/pours another
 

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Luke saying he's excited to play with Jack and hoping to someday play with Quinn too.

Quinn Hughes to NJ e5



(I mean after what Jones got they can't afford him, right?)

Jim Benning tampering charge in 3...2..1...
 

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When does Seattle start trading stuff to make them an actual good team
 

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Did Montreal just tell Chicago to hold my biere?
 

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Did Montreal just tell Chicago to hold my biere?
Apple & tree or whatever.

I'm probably going to get shit for this.

I need you guys to understand that I was raised in Respecting Women and treating them like the treasures like they are.

I DON'T CONDONE ANYTHING THE KID DID. VERY IMMATURE AND CHILDISH

However, What did the kid did after that impressed me.

HE TOOK HIS SHIT LIKE A MAN.

he told teams "don't draft me."
He took himself out of the draft. Some of the best things to happen in a young players life gone just like this

Sassy Tyra Banks GIF
 

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I'm probably going to get shit for this.

I need you guys to understand that I was raised in Respecting Women and treating them like the treasures like they are.

I DON'T CONDONE ANYTHING THE KID DID. VERY IMMATURE AND CHILDISH

However, What did the kid did after that impressed me.

HE TOOK HIS SHIT LIKE A MAN.

he told teams "don't draft me."
He took himself out of the draft. Some of the best things to happen in a young players life gone just like this

Sassy Tyra Banks GIF
I get where you are coming from and as a coach of high school hockey and having a son who played high school hockey I think what he did is far more prevalent than people think. My son told me that in his high school group text he saw pictures of other players girlfriends'. On my team we sat a kid for 3 games for just talking about a female teammate inappropriately.

But there are three major issues here that make this one of the dumbest things any GM has done, in like ever.
1) The kid shows remorse, but I think it's more that he got caught. Would he "stand up" like this if there wasn't any punishment from authorities? Doing the right thing in the absence of any other option and doing the right thing because it's the right thing are totally different.

2) The league has a problem with this kind of behavior. Brandon Leipsic, Patrick Kane, Slava Voynov are all stories that got out. The league wants to be inclusive of all fans, and half of all hockey fans are women. To reward this by making him a first round selection is disgusting. I am all for second chances (with a very big hammer if they fuck it up), but this is just wrong.

3) Marc Bergevin was in the Blackhawks front office during the time one of their players was allegedly being r*ped by a coach. The evidence points to everyone knowing and looking past it, even bringing fallout down on the victim which is part of the culture problem in hockey (and other sports too, I get that *cough*Gym Jordan*cough*). It's been there for a long time. Going back to Graham James in Junior and everything that Theo Fleury went through. So for a guy who was at best stupid and not paying attention to at worst looking the other way to essentially say "I don't think this particular form of sexual assault is so bad" is intensely tone deaf and probably just made a big portion of the case against Chicago.

Bergevin should be fired, and this kid should get a 20+ game ban to start his NHL career. Someone has to be the face of it. Someone has to be the point where the league says "enough".
 
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