Rangers Get Pick For Cherapanov's Death

[italian_stallion21]

NHL.com - News: Rangers receive compensatory pick for Cherepanov - 03/12/2009

What do you guys think of that? I think it's bogus. I mean, no doubt it is sad, but (and my memory doesn't always serve me right and I'm too lazy to look) didn't they find performance enhancers in his blood which could have contributed to his death? If the Rangers were that worried about him shouldn't they have been monitoring him? Do the Canucks get a pick because Luc Bourdon was tragically lost albeit for a different reason?

 

[Regs]

Bogus.

 

[Dude]

Tail wagging the dog.

 

[hammerhead]

17th pick in round 2? What are the chances that a player picked there will ever play at the NHL level?

 

[Dude]

It’s that high? Diabolical.

Chances are a lot better now than in years past. W/ Salary Cap constraints and budget constraints to come, a lot of these older players will find themselves being “encouraged to retire”. The younger players are getting more and more opportunity, and being fast-tracked in. The days of seniority are quickly disappearing, it is all about short contracts, and low pay now.

 

[italian_stallion21]

17th pick in round 2? What are the chances that a player picked there will ever play at the NHL level?

What did Lucic go, 11th in the second round? I know he was 41st overall. That's not bad for a second round pick.

 

[johnnybluenose]

What a Joke!

There is no way they should get this pick. The Canucks should have a pick for bourdon's passing if this is going to set a tone.

Sather and the Rangers piss me off.

 

[hammerhead]

What did Lucic go, 11th in the second round? I know he was 41st overall. That's not bad for a second round pick.

Sure, and Messier went like 200th overall or something ridiculous like that.... how often does that happen though?

 

[italian_stallion21]

Like Dude said, more and more often with the training programs these kids go through, and the need in the salary cap era to have young cheap talent in your roster.

 

[hammerhead]

Messier was 48th overall, I wasnt even close.....

 

[italian_stallion21]

So it was just pointed out to me that in the CBA, there's language that if an NHL team does not sign their first rounder after 2 years, they will get a compensatory draft pick. Alexei Cherepanov was not signed, so the Rangers got a draft pick as compensation for not signing him, not for his dying. I guess that makes sense then.

 

[johnnybluenose]

Hammerhead, there are just as many 2nd rounders playing in the NHL as first rounders.
Look at the Canucks and how many guys are not first rounders.8 Players total of the 22 roster.
Bernier: 1st Round (Sharks)
Bieksa: 5th Round Nucks
Burrows: Undrafted
Davison: 4th Round (sharks)
Demitra: 9th Round (Sens)
Edler: 3rd Round (Nucks)
Hansen: 9th Round (Nucks)
Hordichuk: 6th Round (Thrashers)
Johnson: 2nd Round (Panthers)
Kesler: 1st Round
LaBarbera: 3rd Round (Rangers)
Luongo" 1st Round (Isles)
Mitchell: 8th Round (Devils)
O'Brien: 8th Round (Ducks)
Ohlund: 1st Round (Nucks)
Pyatt: 1st Round (Isles)
Raymond: 2nd Rounder (Nucks)
Rypien: Undrafted
Salo:9th Round (last player taken that draft!!)
Sedins: 1st Round
Sundin: 1st Round (Nords)
Vaananen: 2nd Round (Yotes)
Wellwood: 5th Round (leafs)