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We’re going over Seattle Kraken forward Shane Wright, and whether or not he is now better than Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky.
This video is taking place after the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2024 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) San Jose Sharks, Macklin Celebrini
2nd) Chicago Blackhawks, Artyom Levshunov
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Beckett Sennecke
4th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Cayden Lindstrom,
5th) Montreal Canadiens, Ivan Demidov
6th) Utah Hockey Club, Tij Iginla
7th) Ottawa Senators, Carter Yakemchuk
8th) Seattle Kraken, Berkly Catton
9th) Calgary Flames, Zayne Parekh
10th) New Jersey Devils, Anton Silayev
11th) San Jose Sharks (from Buffalo Sabres), Sam Dickinson
12th) Minnesota Wild (from Philadelphia Flyers), Zeev Buium
13th) Philadelphia Flyers (from Minnesota Wild), Jett Luchanko
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Pittsburgh Penguins via San Jose Sharks), Konsta Helenius
15th) Detroit Red Wings, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
16th) St. Louis Blues, Adam Jiricek
17th) Washington Capitals, Terik Parascak
18th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Sacha Boisvert
19th) Vegas Golden Knights, Trevor Connelly
20th) New York Islanders (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Eiserman
21st) Montreal Canadiens (from Los Angeles Kings), Michael Hage
22nd) Nashville Predators, Yegor Surin
23rd) Anaheim Ducks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Stian Solberg
24th) Utah Hockey Club (from Colorado Avalanche), Cole Beaudoin
25th) Boston Bruins (from Boston Bruins via Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators), Dean Letourneau
26th) Los Angeles Kings (from Winnipeg Jets via Montreal Canadiens), Liam Greentree
27th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Marek Vanacker
28th) Calgary Flames (from Vancouver Canucks), Matvei Gridin
29th) Dallas Stars, Emil Hemming
30th) New York Rangers, EJ Emery
31st) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Edmonton Oilers via Anaheim Ducks), Ben Danford
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Florida Panthers via Philadelphia Flyers), Sam O’Reilly
This video is also taking place after 2024 NHL Season, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.
Shane Wright was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2022 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The Top 28 of the draft went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
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23 Comments
Shane Wright sucks. Slafkovsky goes from beast to beast mode next season. SlafBeast does more than put up points for habs.
Montreal has a reputation for messing up their first round picks. They should give the consolidated list of prospects to the receptionist and have her pick the first round pick, we'd have a much better team already.
Can we please stop overreacting it’s guys who are only 21 let them turn 23-24 atleast before we talk
Slaf really needs to be better. Not looking like a good pick so far…..but it's still early.
Hes a bust through and through. Simple as that
Its way too early to juge. Remember what people where saying about a guy like Jack Hughes after 2 seasons, and saying he’s a bust. And also remember that bigger players take longer to “cook”. Tage Thompson comes to mind. Took him about 5 seasons to start to get going.
Slaf is still adjusting to what he can do on the ice, and how to use his body, figure out his role and style. Heck, even his voice was still changing last season, now seems to be more stable and less “rough” during interviews. Any player in the league is hard to juge before they hit 24-25.
Lets not forget that when drafting, MTL was also trying to get bigger, they made that clear. Also, they were going after a guy that has intangibles in his game, to surround guys like Caufield, Suzuki, and do things that they can’t on the physical side, that you need in the playoffs. As far as comparing stats only, its missing the point with these two. I think you have to be looking ahead and see what both can bring to a game come playoff time. And also, think, if they both play against each other, which one do you want on your team. going into a corner, I think Slaf is a good bet on winning the puck against Wright. But yeah maybe Wright gets more point than Slaf at the end of their carrer. Does not mean that he’s the “best” all around player. Its going to be fun to see them in the next 3-5 years and see what they become. As of now, It just seems to early to call either the best.
Slaf is 20 years old. He has time to be a dominating force with good development
slaf needed some time in the ahl to marinate. the habs were so bad he made the lineup sooner than maybe he should have.
Imagine how much further along the Habs would be with Cooley and michkov. Slaf and Reinbacker suck
You can disrespect either player they’re both gonna be good players in the future
You typical hab fans either love or hste Slav. And noŵ you pine over a Russian kid playing against inferior competition. We at Leafs Nation will wait for Easton Cowan he of the 64 game point streak against top junior competition 😊
thumbnail is amazing but yeah slaf sucks and wright is better lol
only reason thy got demidov because columbus and chicago completely dropped the ball, hughes traded for dach and laine as well, terrible gm 😂
The real question is Shane Wright better or going to be better than Nick Suzuki?
If your answer is no then MTL made the right pick.
As a Habs fan Cooley was who I wanted at the time but I'm happy with Slaf. Saw Wright play in junior and he is a bit of an enigma. He can be the best player on the ice, but he can also just disappear at times. My brother in law and I both thought that he just seemed disinterested at times. I wish him the best, but I wouldn't want a franchise cornerstone that has that approach.
Climate fraud arena.
Chemtrails are disgusting
Wright has had slow starts in every league he's been in so far, I'm thinking he's going to keep improving.
Wright is definitely better at this point. Anyone that doesn't realize that isn't a real hockey fan. Maybe in the future that will change (I doubt it tbh) but it is possible. The worst part is that he doesn't look any better since the mid point of last year.
We will have to wait 2027 i.e. Draft year (2022) + 5 to see who was the better player.
Worth noting too that Wright is the leading power play scorer for the Kraken (who have not been great on the power play aside from him and Schwartz). He still has a rookie moment pretty much once a game but the good very much outweighs the bad and you can tell he feels comfortable with the speed of the NHL game which he couldn't handle in the year after he was drafted. You can see the hockey IQ he was noted for in that draft year starting to shine through a lot more here recently.
Slaf is still on track to be Jagr . He'll be a big reason why the Habs are hoisting the Cup
I always thought Wright was a bigger, faster version of Patrice Bergeron……… He may not lead the league in scoring but you need guys like him to be a contender……..👍
I would go with slaf even as a huge wright fan. slaf is enormous and has an insane work ethic. the intangibles that go along with his height are more valuable than anything wright has done up to this point.
Cooley is better but Wright is better than Slaf.
Habs always draft wrong players except last year (by luck).