Bombers started the draft with barely any picks, as the team pushed for a cup last season. Unfortunately, the BFHL created a hostile environment where goalies automatically die after playing 1 minute of overtime, leading to Helleybyuck not playing most of the 2025/2026 playoffs, and resulted in a quick exit by the team. To rub salt into the wounds, Bombers lost to Gunners, a team managed by someone with a similar skillset as Jim Benning.
Extremely disappointed, Bombers GM retooled on the fly, trading away some quality younger players to reload junior talent.
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Marcus Nordmark (28th pick, LW, ANA) - Marcus didn't care who picked him in the BFHL. All he knows, is Pat Verbeek's just given Marcus' future line mate Leo $18m bags of Benjamins a year. While Pat's going to get his ass fired very soon, Marcus knows damn well that Leo's comp will get Marcus paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid. Mintyukov just got a "we're sorry we dicked you around so long, here's way more money than you're worth" contract, and while Cutter Gauthier isn't eligible for RFA, he's just licking his chops expecting a $15m bag; afterall, it's not like he himself will play hardball when he was in Philadelphia!
Xavier Villeneuve (29th pick, D, CHI) - Xavier has busted hip. We all know defensemen don't need their hips to be elite puck movers, because AI and robotics will allow him to replace his entire mid-body in a few years - think of the old Atari robot football game, Cyberball, just he'll be Cyberpuck. We all know QMJHL sucks now, so his inflated point totals mean absolute jack all, even if his PPG is above Thomas Chabot's (the last actually impactful puck moving D playing in the NHL from the QMJHL). Bombers GM is naturally stupid, by giving up a more seasoned puck-moving D in Adam Engstrom (who is already generating similar PPG in the AHL at only 22), to make this pick.
Yegor Shilov (30th pick, C, COL) - Bombers swings for the fences (and given past precedents, will likely cause a triple play, with no outs in the inning, and bases loaded). Skills of a Kucherov. Efforts of an Elias Pettersson when JT Miller was on the team, his wife is having a miscarriage all at the same time AND was defrauded by a Swedish real estate agent all at the same time. He can't skate. He's slow. He's super lazy. His decision making is also suspect - after committing to Boston U, he goes to a laughingstock NCAA Penn State instead, as he feared the strong competition he'll face at HockeyEast. However there is light at the end of the tunnel - Colorado is capped out and dumped another lazy player in Nichushkin (whom Bombers is very familiar with) and there is room eventually for Shilov. If he can turn out to be a Mogilny, who plays maybe 2-3 mins of real hockey a game and gets a few points during those 2-3 mins, while coasting the other 16 mins hovering near the opponent's blue line, Bombers will be fine with the pick.
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