Goon's World: Cedar Rapids Iowa

North Dakota was well represented today at the draft with all highlighted players drafted and one off the board being drafted.

Here's the breakdown:

Adam Tambellini was drafted in the 3rd round (65th overall) to the NY Rangers.
Keaton Thompson was drafted in the 3rd round (87th overall) to the Anaheim Ducks.
Tucker Poolman was drafted in the 5th round (127th overall) to the Winnipeg Jets.
Luke Johnson was drafted in the 5th round (134th overall) to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Gage Ausmus was drafted in the 5th round (151st overall) to the San Jose Sharks.
Wade Murphy was drafted in the 7th round (185th overall) to the Nashville Predators.

Undrafted UND Draft eligible players were: Drake Caggiula, Cam Johnson (incoming 2014), Trevor Olson, Troy Stetcher, Colton St. Clair, Luke Voltin, Charlie Pelnik, and Jack Rowe.

Surprises

In my opinion, I have no surprises to say because I'm terrible at predicting who will and will not get drafted. I still have memories of thinking Kyle Radke would be a end 4th to mid 5th draft pick and watching him fall straight off the board.

So UND has 6 drafted players from various rounds incoming.

I think this is pretty good considering that this was, according to several "experts" a "down" year for NCAA and NCAA-inbound players in terms of high end talent. Only one player (current WMU recruit Michael McCarron went in the first round. His MJ rights are owned by London of the OHL, btw, so it will be interesting to see if he actually goes to WMU in the fall (my bet is that he won't).

There weren't as many trades as they expected but here are a few interesting ones:

NJ Devils trade the 9th pick overall to Vancouver for Cory Schneider - This pick makes a lot of sense for NJ and absolutely NO sense for Vancouver. Luongo wanted out. Vancouver front office wanted Luongo out. So they trade Schneider. Definitely a head scratcher.

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Wild trade Cal Clutterbuck to the Isles for Nino Neitereider and a pick. This is an interesting trade because you have a tried and true gritty forward being traded for a former first rounder whose offense has been suspect. In other words, it's Risebrough-esque. I've seen Nino play and he's pretty good if you give him space. If you crowd him, he disappears. At best, Nino is another Pierre Marc Bouchard. At worst, he's a nobody.

But probably the worst trade by the Wild had to be Justin Falk for the rights to Benn Ferriero and a 2014 6th rounder. Sorry Wild fans, but Ferriero is another Veillieux in terms of offensive talent. 22 points in 92 NHL games. The Wild do not need defensive forwards... well maybe they do now that Clutterbuck is gone? So they ship away a decent young defenseman for the RFA rights to Ferriero? Yuck. If that pick was a 2013 mid rounder (say 4th-6th round) then I'd say "Ok." But blech.

In wrapping up: Boston College and UND had 6 players drafted last count. That tops them out for NCAA schools. Not too shabby.

Luke Voltin (Lincoln), F Jack Rowe (Cedar Rapids), D Charlie Pelnik (Fargo) - See more at: http://undhockey.areavoices.com/#sthash.dIBFIQKe.dpuf

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