draft review for Riga

[hedgehog337 3,483]

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#1 overall - The Frenchman - C

@OrbitingDeath

 

When couple of GM's were coming to my DM's with the question about this pick I was trying to be as sly as possible. Saying some shit like I tend to change my decision last minute etc stuff. In fairness, I was not totally lying here. How many times here I was thinking I will stick to one plan and then changing it completely for no real reasons, I'm not even sure anymore. However, I did not go wild here because after all looking at the draft class board and the member behind The Frenchman. You know it takes a big courage to pass on this player when he's still available. And I didn't even need to either - the last Riga cup happened 14 seasons ago and OD is known of providing hall of fame players left and right and even the most recent inductee not having cups wasn't really his fault. You know....40 passing and stuff. So yeah, if I want to get Riga back on winning ways I gotta draft born winners. All checks out. 

 

 

#4 overall - Sadie St-Louis - LW

@sadie

 

The second overall by Seattle was having a big impact on my decision. They had couple of options at 2: take Ricer and then Tina goes as well or take Bogatyrev but forget about bros. It didn't take long before their pick was announced and that choice made me think for a while. Matter of fact, that was the first of many cases of the draft being stalled out. I think I took like 5 minutes to figure it out what to do. My OG plan in this case was moving down 4th overall for more assets. But as it turned out, it wasn't really a possible option cause the offers were disappointing to me, to say the least. After a long thought I decided to not make a carousel out of this and made the least reach possible...if it was even a reach, I didn't need a goalie at all. By the draft day Sadie came in as the best first gen by a good margin so it didn't come as a shock to anyone. I think if anything I've done in this draft is assemble a good future for the forward position. Also apparently she and Weaver are Habs fans. You know who else is Habs fan who played in Riga? Ledge who became a career Riga player and AGM at one point too. So I hope this trend will continue...well I don't know about managing position, but having a good player for sure. 

 

 

#45 overall - Grizz Tazzo - RW

@xslapxshotsx

 

Basically, I was drafting nothing but forwards this time. May we see Frenchman - Sadie - Tazzo lineup in this future? You never know. Anyways, this is the time when GM's are trying to find a steal. If we find it - great! If not, well we tried. I decided to stay up to see maybe I can hit a jackpot here. Some members were still claiming TPE by that date and Tazzo was one of them. He definitely looked like a chance for the sleeper pick. So good that even Davos GM Alex was trying to move his 48th overall up to draft him. But I decided that I'll just take him and go to sleep. Apparently Grizz was suggested to Alex by a current Mexico GM Cole, or so I was hearing. So we shall see where it goes. 

 

 

So yeah this was the S86 draft for Riga. I think our forward group is pretty much set knowing that we also have S85 Weaver in it. Now it's time for some defence maybe? 

 

That's it and I'm out. 

[Nykonax 1,564]

11 minutes ago, hedgehog337 said:

even the most recent inductee not having cups wasn't really his fault

my bad

[hedgehog337 3,483]

13 minutes ago, Nykonax said:

my bad

 

nyko be like

 

[OrbitingDeath 3,197]

He's definitly not sorry, and tbh, I wouldn't be sorry in his shoes either.  He just did what could have been done years ago.