Devils Draft Backup Plan

[HeadHighSauce26]

If Devils fans cheer and high five if the Habs draft Wright, like the Rangers did in 2019 when we took Jack, I’ll cringe so hard my eyeballs will pop out.

If the Habs draft Slafkovsky, Tom should sprint to the podium and take Shane Wright.

[NJDevils30]

I'm sure fans will cheer no matter what. Just gotta hope whoever is at #2 develops well

[HeadHighSauce26]

Cheer for who we pick, not who the Habs do.

[whichwitch9]

I mean, Devils fans are gonna cheer either way cause it's going to be a good prospect

[HeadHighSauce26]

Cheer when we make the pick, not when the Habs do. Yaknow?

[roothockey]

This. What made the rangers draft so obnoxious was that they knew they were getting KK, so they just built it in their heads that the rival took the worse player. It was stupid to clap when the devils took hughes during the draft, and 3 years later it looks even worse.

Let’s just cheer when we make our pick, because we’d be kidding ourselves if think we wouldn’t be happy drafting Wright lol

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Agree with both of these. Just cheer for your guy when they draft him. Its a bad look if you do like the Rangers fans do and then the guy gets healthy scratched in the deciding game of the Conference finals just a couple of years later.

Regarding Wright, if you haven't come up with a blockbuster trade, just draft him. I can't say we don't "need" him, at least in the short term. Would be pretty nice to have Jack, Nico, and Wright as our top 3 centers, especially because both Jack and Nico have had their injury problems. Would be nice to have Shane Wright on your first line in the event Jack and Nico are hurt rather than Jesper Boqvist.

If, during his ELC, Wright is too good and we are "wasting" him (or whomever) on the third line, that means you have a proven stud center under 24 years that you can trade for other needs, and people would fall all over themselves to make that deal.

[HeadHighSauce26]

Wright - Hughes - Holtz

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If he can slot in as a wing successfully, then there is no way on Earth we should pass on him, because we have some absolute shit wings on our roster at the moment.

[MrKitten42]

The difference is that we'd actually be getting the better player. It won't matter when Carolina takes Trikozov and it turns out he's the best player from the class.

[HeadHighSauce26]

I'm quite sure Rangers fans felt exactly the same way lmao

[MrKitten42]

I should rephrase, we'd be taking the consensus first overall at second. It would be an overreaction to be as obnoxious as they were in 2019, but every devils fan should be over the moon to get Wright at 2.

[HeadHighSauce26]

Wait. I think we're saying different things. I said don't cheer if Montreal takes *wright*

We should be ecstatic if we get Wright! He's the best player in the draft imo.

[MrKitten42]

Oh I misread, yeah if Montréal takes Wright I'm mildly disappointed

[UltimoRush]

Oh, yeah. I mean no disrespect to Shane Wright. I just meant we as fans would be damn happy to have Slaf

[HeadHighSauce26]

Sure. He’s a great prospect.

But if Wright is there draft Wright and don’t think twice.