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2024 NHL Draft - Favorite Draft Classes - Utah Hockey Club & Carolina Hurricanes
Jul 15, 2024
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Prospect Corner, Matthew Zator and Peter Baracchini get together to discuss some of their favorite draft classes from the recently completed 2024 NHL Draft. In this clip, Peter highlights the Utah Hockey Club and Carolina Hurricanes.
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All right, let's talk about some draft classes
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I mean, we all have our favorites, and when you look at the different draft classes overall
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not just their first round picks, who was your favorite draft class overall of the 32 teams
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I have a few, actually quite a few. I'm really a big fan of what, you know, Utah did
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you know, getting Teej again on cold bowled, went to different forwards with different play styles
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but, you know, players that they needed upfront. And, you know, we knew Teej was gonna be
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in that top six or seven range anyway, so somebody was gonna take him, and I'm glad Utah did
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Cold bowled went, hard worker, kind of fits that, you know, tall, you know
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physical being up front as opposed to on defense right now, because we know how much size they have on the back end
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I thought that was a really good add up front. But Thomas O'Voie and VD Vison
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and I thought were good third round selections as well. Owen Lillard was a good, you know, late round pick
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to, you know, give a chance on an overager. I thought Utah really did a really good job
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in that draft class, but we want to talk about like, you know, finding talent in the later rounds
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To me, I think an A or even close to an A plus goes to the Carolina Hurricanes
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I mean, Dominic Padinka and Nikita Artamanov, I know he's kind of fallen into the second round
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but that's great value at the 50th overall. Padinka, I was high on him being a first rounder
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but even after that, Noel Franson, Oscar Vuale, Justin Poirier, they're betting on a lot of upside
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with those picks. And we know that, you know, Carolina tends to go
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for those players that have those high upside that don't show it now
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but the potential is very much there. And, you know, we're seeing that with some of those picks
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and I'm a big fan of some of those players that, you know, probably should have been a little bit higher up
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or if I'm a team, I'm like, I got to take this guy right here. I would take Noel Franson. Yeah
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A little bit higher up, I had him as a second rounder, but you know what? Getting him in the third round, still good value
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Oscar Vuale was one player that I was really high on in the second half
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Great pickup right there. So yeah, I think those are some of the two
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that really stood out for me in terms of like having a good draft. Obviously the easy answer was going to be San Jose. Yeah
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They get an A plus anyways, but aside from San Jose, I think those are my other top two
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in terms of favorite drafts
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