Well I was not following the blog prior to the draft, but I felt like many of you did that we needed to do something to add to our defense. I still beleive in the defense first system. I believe that Hatcher Zubov Sydow et al made our 99 cup run a success.

I am not going to call this a bad draft. I have watched sports long enough to know that I do not do a good job of evaluating talent in any sport. So I will just watch and hope that these players make a big impact for the Stars.

I do hope that the defense is bolstered thru free agency. Defense wins championships. That being said the top UFA blue liners seem to be at the end of their careers. I want to see a Zdeno CHara type d-man in the green and gold soon.

I think it was a good draft despite what many people might think, and although i see our need for D, i didnt think from the start that they were gping to draft it for 3 reasons:
1 Ivan Vish. from the limited play we saw from this kid its hard to tell what he has, but it looked good. a wicked hard shot a puck moving D guy that can manuevre through traffic.
2. The UFA market, we can always pay a little bit of money or a lot to bring in a solid D guy.
3. Phillip larsen’s suprising development. he has been much better than expected and i think that the organization considers him to be up in a year or so.
with all of these things plus the lack of an exciting goal getting, finesse right handed kid, we picked up Glennie. a big, fast finesse guy who’s favorite player is the great 8. he’s canadian and plays in the WHL, in razor’s opinion the best place to draft. I think all in all we scored big time here, although i wouldve liked to have a Dman in the second.

I’m fine with the pick. I’d love to have been able to get the Ekman kid, but he was already gone.

As others mentioned above, I was hoping for some D-Men to have been taken. But I am a very firm believer in taking the best player available rather than drafting for need. If the choices for D-men were thin when Dallas’ pick came up then so be it.

Chiasson is an interesting pick as well. Reading up on him and he seems to be a very solid pick.

as with any draft, time will tell. But I feel confident that Glennie, at least, will definitely pan out. The level of competition in the WHL is so good and to be successful there, you have to have SOMEthing in your bag

Oh and the Kings. They are starting to get really scary. Between them and the ’Yotes the balance of power in the Pacific might just be shifting.