Quoting: csick
Who do you think they’ll draft? Jiricek or Savoie?
Either would be a good shout.
Both play needed positions/skills in the organization.
If they draft Jiricek, Zamula stays as 7th or 8th dman on club, and the team doesn;t trade for Cernak but picks up a steady/phsical PK 3LD in free agency. Making it a Provorov-Ellis, York-Risto, Vet-Jiricek lineup. with a Hagg type as 7th if Zamula/York show growing pains.
But Savoie's speed and skills would work too. Maybe he pushes Tippett/Allison/Lindblom down or out.
My opinion? With limited NHL looks Cam York, Zamula, Hogberg and Attard all looked good. Ginning, Wylie are coming along, and the relative age of Risto, Provorov makes Jiricek/Nemec not as needed as a forward. Tippett, Frost both showed flashes of top 6 ability, and with Tuomaala, Foerster, Wisdom, O'Brien, Brink all looking really good as top 9 prospect forwards, it makes forward a pretty good in the organization. But a guy like Savoie is hard to skip over.
Difficult, but Jiricek is viewed as more can;t miss than Savoie, and I think PHI cant screw this up. Im also a firm believer in an organization not having the playing time/coaching to develop alot of players at once, and theres a little gap between hogberg/zamula's development to makes Jiricek more likely.