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Re: 2025 Oiler Draft Review [message #847071 is a reply to message #847070 ]	Sun, 29 June 2025 10:38

Adam
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g2k wrote on Sun, 29 June 2025 07:02

Did anyone else find this years draft format goofy. It was like the Gary Show. I think he actually likes the microphone more than his hefty salary. The awkward walk to the widescreen where the 18 year old and the staff that drafted him try to have a conversation. It was so weird. The Goo Goo Dolls, Female wrestlers etc announcing the selections.

Call me a traditionalist, but I prefer all the big draft tables on the floor and the GM or a scout walking up to give the announcement. The staffs walking from one table to the other to make trade proposals etc.

I will say having Gaudreau’s sister make the Columbus announcements was a classy touch, but those ideas can be worked into the previous format as well. It just looked really bad with people not knowing where to go. Bettmans fake camera smile 64 times. The walk through a doorway to go chat about nothing to a widescreen. Apparently Dutchie didn’t care for it either. I hope they abandon it before Oiler draft years matter again.

It was definitely a weird one. There were a couple things that worked - Cool having Adam Sandler make the Bruins pick and getting Josh Jackson and Marguerite Mageau to do the Ducks one was fun too - but otherwise it was a bunch of B- and C-level celebrities, and a whole lot of Gary Bettman. Also - it was unbelievably long. You'd think with no one there that it could have been quick - but somehow it just dragged out forever. Even the walk to the podium seemed to take forever as the kids had to go find all their buddies to high-five first.

I don't really think that was Bettman's idea - he had some comments in his interviews in the Finals that made it sound like he wasn't crazy about the idea but the teams had voted to do it. I've heard that everyone kind of hated it though and it's one and done. Next year should be back to the old style.

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2025 Oiler Draft Review	By: Skookum Jim on Sat, 28 June 2025 15:40
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