NHL Draft Combine (June 1st - June 6th) in Buffalo

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The 2015 Draft Combine is next week! For the first time in history, the combine will be held in Buffalo.

Word on the street is 119 of the 120 prospects invited have accepted, with the lone exception being Ilya Samansov (who some consider to be the top goalie in this year's draft).

NHL Central Scouting invited their top 75. The remaining 45 were essentially voted by NHL teams (i.e. teams submitted lists of who they wanted at the combine and the 45 most requested prospects, besides the 75 Central Scouting invited, were invited)

Interviews with teams will be held June 1 to 5. Sometimes word slips out of who the Flames are interviewing. Flames usually interview around 50 or more prospects at the combine.

Physical testing has been changed a little bit this year. Majority of the testing will take place on June 6. In past years VO2Max and Windgate tests were done back to back on the same day. This year VO2Max will take place on June 5 and the Windgate will take place on June 6 with the rest of the tests.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Hope McDavid can do a pull-up...

 

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Hope McDavid can do a pull-up...

lol - Actually, he might drop to the Leafs if he can't (the Sam Bennett corollary)

/Nope, he's going to Edmonton, might as well make peace with it and move on.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Cole Cassels is gonna check McDavid so hard in the pros that McDavid will have to wear pull-ups


/im reaching here

 

[mattola]

first kid that cant do a pull up will probably be drafted first overall

#CalgaryModel
#hestillonly18

 

[BGDave]

I never unerstood the whole fascination with Bennett and pullups. Dude is only 18. Not ALL 18 year olds do pullups. Here in KY, it is illegal to do a pullup before you reach 21 years of age. Now, I am not saying that some guys may pull one or two before turning 21, buuuut technically it is illegal.

So go easy on Bennett. He is going to stay a good boy and not do a pullup (publicly) until he is 21. Nice to see a young man following the rules for a change.






Oh. Wait.

"Pull up" ISNT a metaphor drinking beer?

NVM.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

iirc Pierre Mcguire said 18 year old Bennett couldnt do pullups NOT because he was an 18 year old pear shaped loser BUT instead because he had alot of muscular junk in the trunk aka just like Sids lower body

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Just to be a dick, Sam Bennett was 17 at the combine last year.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Just to be a dick, Sam Bennett was 17 at the combine last year.

true ... 18 year old Sam Bennett was 17

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

To be honest there are only two things I would be paying attention to during the combine.

1.The breathing apparatus thing. I want the guy who has lungs like Chris Chelios.

2.Hand/Eye Coordination testing.