But just so you know, there's a thing called the draft lottery.

Its a joke. Did you watch the twitter video in the description? That was just the weirdest video by Melynk, what players would want to play for that lunatic

Good luck keeping Nathan MacKinnon down bud



I did not see that yet. Unbelievable

for those wondering where Erik Karlsson may end up:

https://www.distance.to/Ottawa/Los%20Angeles
Distance: 2,362.33 mi (3,801.80 km)
Driving route: 2,789.21 mi (4,488.80 km)

https://www.distance.to/Ottawa/Dallas
Distance: 1,420.06 mi (2,285.36 km)
Driving route: 1,692.73 mi (2,724.19 km)

https://www.distance.to/Miami/Ottawa
Distance: 1,380.78 mi (2,222.14 km)
Driving route: 1,611.18 mi (2,592.94 km)

https://www.distance.to/Ottawa/Los%20Angeles
Distance: 2,362.33 mi (3,801.80 km)
Driving route: 2,789.21 mi (4,488.80 km)

https://www.distance.to/Ottawa/Vancouver
Distance: 2,200.67 mi (3,541.64 km)
Driving route: 2,845.66 mi (4,579.65 km)

Now what would you want from vancouver (realistically) for the 1st overall if lets say canucks ended up with #3

So you can match Hughes? Brock Boeser, my man. You can keep the 3rd. But Canucks would never move that.

Not sure what would actually get the deal done, but it would be an over payment if it actually was the Hughes pick with how unreal this kid is suppose to be

fair. Now what if Benning would offer Juolevi, Horvat the 3rd and possibly demko. Would you take that?

You can match Hughes and Avs can put Jost and Boeser back together again. Win win

Hasn't Ottawa been through enough already? Can't you just let MTL land Hughes and finally be relevant again? Plz thx.

Doesn’t look like Avs learned from their lottery much during the worst season

After that video, no they have not learned their lesson. I still cant get over who thought that would be a good idea going into this season.

Karlsson has to be traded soon, there is no other reason why they would put out a rebuilding video unless he is out the door

Its the Sens pick, and its a joke with how poorly ran the Sens are that this would be the karma they get for putting out a we are rebuilding video to start the season when they dont have their own 1st and 3rd rounder

The went from 1 to 4 to get Makar but they also went from 2 to 1 to get Mackinnon so it all balances out on the Avs side

Yeah.......that was cringe worthy. I stopped after a minute. I didn't need to see anymore. My gut told me it wasn't going to get any better from there on......

No joke. I am genuinely sad for Ottawa fans. This really has been a perfect storm for bad publicity/negativity/everything against them. I've never seen this before. 1 win from the Cup finals to literally the worst possible outcome in every possible way over the span of a year.

I do too, how can you cheer for that team with him calling the shots...everything is embarrassing about it. From him wearing an old RBK jersey from 10 years go when Adidas is the current design, to saying not 1-2-3 guys make a team and by next year they will have around 15-16 new guys on the roster compared to last year (does that mean they are saying they are moving on from all their UFAs?). To saying they are set for draft picks the next 5-6 years.

Just a wild move to release this video right before camp starts

I forgot they kept their 2018 1st round pick, so it's an unprotected 2019 first round pick now and so did CapFriendly


Burke Kessel trade flashbacks

they also own the Sens 3rd rounder too. So they announce they are rebuilding when they are giving up possible two Top 70 range picks this year? Yikes

Imagine how Dorion feels right now..... guy must feel like he's in the twilight zone.

How anyone could think that some good would come out of that video, just tone deaf

Hahaha just listened to it again and he said after next year he is going to have 15 kids that will be rookies or rookies this current year making up the team leaving 7 spots for returning players... I just looked at all the sens contracts and that says to me hes already decided hes losing the big 3 and possible ryan or Anderson

Couldn't be happier to be an avs fan right now, that lives so close to ottawa

For a team that owns their 1st and 3rd round pick...after seeing that statement, cant wait for for a Top pick and probably a 3rd round pick still in the 65 range

I did watch the video. It's just that there's a thing called the draft lottery.

I still don't think they'll have 10 rookies in 2018-19.

Yes of course there is, but thats not the point of it, just that the Sens own a 1st round pick of a team that just said they are rebuilding, good chance they get a Good pick in the lottery regardless.

Dont take it that literal my friend

Yes you are correct there is a lottery, however the worst team has the best shot at the first pick, so until they do t have it avs fans are going to be super optimistic, far enough?

Zadorov will be closer to 4 million than 5. Noah Hanafin is a better dman than Z and only got 4.9 for 6 years.

You will have to pay up a bit more with Zads, its a sign of good faith with him, you give more aav bc of less term and they brought him down on his ELC, its not good business to keep on griding down guys especially Zads is showing he deserves a big raise.

Cody Ceci makes 4.3m and Zads is a beck of a better Dman than him, its all relative my man