Cooley going 3 and not Wright

How 3 teams passed on Makar is beyond mind blowing

Lambert going 30th

Raty, mark my words he might beat out barzal as a 1st line center in a few years.

@@Sonicthehedgefundmanager seeing him in the NHL would be unreal. Ima hold u to that haha

Imagine Hughes and Seider as the top Dline tho... judas!

Sheiffele as well. I was like wtf are the jets doing...

The fact that the Wings chose Zadina over Quinn Hughes makes me sick to my stomach lol damn Ken Holland

Moritz Cedar

And makar

The definition of "best" is a lot deeper than the stat line, though. I think Yzerman proved this when he chose Moritz Seider over Philip Broberg, Victor Soderstrom, and even Trevor Zegras. In 2018, Detroit was starving for defense and goaltending, and Quinn Hughes was everything they wanted and needed in a top-6 (potentially franchise) D-man. Knowing this I would have to agree that it didn't make sense for Holland to pass on him. To be fair, I also think Holland's management played a big part in Zedina not reaching his potential. Really happy Yzerman came home.

@@dukeford8893 That's pretty much what I'm saying. You can't say Zedina is faultless, but you also can't say that Holland's system helped the team's prospects become stars, because save for Larkin who had a chance to play with the likes of Zetterberg, there was no one.

I'll say this. Zadina at least is showing the attitude and work ethic to improve. I can't see him having another season like last year. Guy did everything right and had so many scoring chances. Just needs to finish.

@@j.m.rhapsody A new coaching staff should really tell us if Zadina's ever going to live up to his potential. If a shakeup can't get him going, nothing will.

The Devils didn't draft for need when they took Zacha. If they felt they needed a Center they could have taken Barzal. In Zacha's draft year he played against McDavid in the playoffs and held him to 6 points in 5 games (McDavid had 120 points in 47 games during the season). Lou and Conte had a major hard on for big two way forwards.

As a Canucks fan, I’ve noticed when we believe a player is a “steal” and “why is no one picking that guy” it usually doesn’t end up well for us

I thought the Habs would pick Zadina instead of KK. My only issue is that his game, to me, looked a lot like Galchenyuk’s (which the Habs had just unloaded). Anyway, picking KK is now Carolina’s problem, on that revenge offer sheet which got them a mediocre player with a big salary. lol

As a university of Michigan season ticket holder I was not thinking Zadina was a steal…. I was thinking hugged was a steal still being there. It’s also rumoured that Holland wanted Bouchard over Hughes…. It’s indefensible… they had scouts watching him routinely it was a perfect match. I’m barely a red wings fan anymore as I just don’t watch the nhl much but I’m not over that draft pick

Lol

Jeff blashill

Or zadina was always a bust and he can't compete at the nhl level like he should. Either way he's still got a chance in Detroit under lalonde. Wouldn't count him out yet.

@@stopdroolin8418 possible but I highly doubt it.

Detroit's draft development is absolutely no longer an issue under Yzerman!! Cheers to that 👌

@@dukeford8893 so the part where all Detroit’s kids are doing extremely well doesn’t mean anything and was just a fluke

Yup, hindsight is always 20/20. The Bruins though, that's just pure stupidity.

I’m not a huge zadina fan but I am rooting for him and I don’t think he got the role he should’ve gotten. The way they handled Raymond was how they should’ve handled him. He doesn’t have the work ethic of Raymond but put him with a passer and he doesn’t miss

@@nbettsy9966 I think Zadina is just a lot more mental than Raymond. When Zadina is on, he's pretty good. Not to mention he is pretty good defensively so he still provides value to the team without scoring. I'm hoping they pair him on a line with Copp and Vrana. He has always played well with Vrana

Chabot is poo

@@andrewrichardson9417 i do agree with the fact that he is a bit inconsistent but he always has been. Even in junior with the moose heads when he was seemingly the most dominant scorer in the q. I personally think that if he was paired with the right line mates he could be a good goal scorer.

PLDiva has massively out preformed Puljujarvi in the NHL so far!!

But that's Chiarelli. He's just confusing, period.

Well they didn’t know that a superstar was still available you don’t know how good the player will be at the draft

@@wyattmack9071 That still doesn't answer why Edmonton gave up a first and a second for an unproven Griffin Reinhart. Probably got overexcited when he drafted McDavid.

"gave up the 16th pick to choose reinhart" do you knkw how trades work?

Chiarelli set the oilers back at least 5 years

I've said it once and I'll say it again! NEVER BE FOOLED BY HIGH RANKING 6'4"+ CENTERS. THEY ALMOST NEVER PAN OUT. THE BOOMER SCOUTS OVERRATED THEM BECAUSE OF SIZE.

Liljegren sucks though

Sweeney

Two words. Don Sweeney.

Really impressive how the Bruins are a buzz saw in spite of that draft

@@jreiland07 It's a miracle what they've done in spite of that disaster of a draft hahaha

Absolutely So they fire Cassidy instead A garbage front office

Cheap, garbage ownership strikes again...and again...and again....

Mid first round picks can be confusing. So many players seems on an even level.

And Zadina was the best player available. He was supposed to have gone 3rd.

@@skyatollah2skyharder276 And Detroit needed a high end defensive prospect a lot more than they needed a scoring wing!

@@bubbagump2341 You draft by best player available first.

@@skyatollah2skyharder276 That is one philosophy, however, sometimes teams take their man or draft by need!

@@bubbagump2341 And that's what bad GMs do. You have someone touted to be an all-star drop to you, you take him.

Yup. Yak was much more the consensus #1 than both RNH and Hall were the 2 previous years. Scouting is not an exact science.

Yak had the puck on his stick in juniors. In the pros, they figured that when Nail didn’t have the puck, he looked lost. When he had the puck, he couldn’t wait to skate away and do something with it ASAP, whether it was warranted or not. He played well under Ralph Krueger though

He had nearly 70 points last season and was a plus defender

He finished at +10 last season from a previous minus 24 season. That is a 34 +- progression. Don't know what is in your Kool aid but slow down a little. ;)

No one lives there no revenues, Quebec City and Houston deserve it more

@@manu-animation-924 Regina Vaginas

then we get zegras

They chose Edvinsson (LHD) in a later draft. The reality could’ve existed

Brainer

Consensus in terms of private scouting firms. Many teams had Quinn Hughes ranked as high as #2, and the fact that the Red Wings were already committed to drafting him, makes it burn more

No, it was because all but one team in the division made the playoffs....

@@blueshky ...and it was a division with all the most recent expansion teams in it... of which the Blues were the best, but they were nowhere near as good as the teams that weren't expansions.

@@FranklinSteele the Norris division had the Maple Leafs, Red Wings, and Black Hawks in it, along with the Blues lol. Those "new six" and "original six" divisions stopped when they got more than 12 teams.

Gotta admit, the Habs were awful at keeping their young guys on the bench or as healthy scratch. Savard might have busted if thrown in the Habs crazy hype and see little ice time, although. Laude Ruel wanted Savard badly. Look at Lafleur’s 3 first seasons, scoring in the 50s, because they wouldn’t play him. Wickenheiser was so mishandled, his confidence was shot and he never recovered.

Need young blood like John Chyka!

As a canadiens fan. Id say that KK isnt a bust he is doing great in Carolina, but he is ofc not as good as Hughes or Tkatchuk ofc yeah.

*all those picks were traded* And wheeler was drafted by the coyotes I thought

@@esc03civic You are def right ab wheeler. I guess my point was that so many great players have both played and been drafted by the Bruins.

The media pushed Wright as still being no.1, but the pre-draft lists were slowly having Slafkovsky as no.1, so it was a “shock” for the fans and media, but not so much for the executives.

Patches never had an attitude, what are you talking about….

The problem is you can do this with every team pretty much every year.

@@brucemckinlay9739 oilers 2012 🥲

Nah lol the teams above Seattle that first pick Wright already had their eyes on those players for awhile. It Also may have something to do with Wright himself, hearts he's an ass.

I gotta admit that I thought Evan Bouchard was going to be a bust due to defensive liabilities. God, Was I wrong. Lol

I'm sorry, but there was no reason to pick KK at #3. Habs chose based on need, not on talent, and it blew up in their face absolutely majestically.

My memory of 1980 was that Savard was never really under consideration. It was between Wickenheiser and Dave Babych and the Habs chose wrong.

Wickenheiser was the clear cut projected first pick by every scout at the time. If anything, maybe Montreal doesnt want history to repeat itself by not drafting Wright.

Monday Night Miracle DW!

It's way too early to tell what Boucher will turn out to be, but I don't think anyone could have predicted how well Sillinger turned out so far. He is by far the latest pick I've ever seen be the first in his draft class to play in the NHL.

@@chengliu872 Eh, being an oversized forward who can't put up a point-per-game in the OHL in a D+1 year is cause for concern for Boucher. Point-per-game status is something that 7th round picks who turn into tweeners have achieved in their D+1. Boucher's last three years have him tracking closer to an ECHLer based on NHLe. Among his production comps, the one with the best career is Kerby Rychel. So his underlying stats and his counting stats are abysmal. Plus nobody had him projected in the top 100 picks of the draft, let alone the top 10. If Boucher is very lucky, he might see some NHL time in the bottom 6 on occasion whenever the Sens need somebody to goon it up. That's his marketable hockey skill, being overly physical. Meanwhile Sillinger is looking at the very real possibility of being the center between Gaudreau and Laine for the next several years. Boucher going one spot ahead of Sillinger is already looking super rough. *Edited out a part about where Sillinger was drafted because I realized I misread your comment, sorry.

@@LieuFang: You may very well be correct. All I am saying is that it's too early to tell for sure.

@@chengliu872 That's fair, no matter how small, there is still a chance Boucher could make it. Hopefully for him, he has a better year next season.

There were not many good Finns player this year compare to 2015 and 2016 and 2017

@@manu-animation-924 tru, ig im lucky nashville got kemmell tho. Im sure they will shine. Great year for Slovakia

Eric Johnson has played more games and accumulated more points than any other defenseman in that draft. He's still a top 4 guy on a cup winning team this past season. There have certainly been worse selections.

@@jefflarson1652 I agree, but for the Blues specifically, it was a bad pick. It’s cool he ended up having a celebrated career but you’ll never see highlights of him from here. Winning a cup for the Avs doesn’t make him a good draft selection for the Blues. Also, he has had more points than any defenseman from that draft as he ABSOLUTELY SHOULD considering he was #1 overall, lol.

@@Flickawho Evidently the Blues thought they needed a defenseman, so they took the best one available...and they were right.

@@jefflarson1652 while correct about having the best stats in a weak draft for d-men, it’s definitely considered a massive bust here. We needed a defenseman and got the best one available, but super not worth using the #1 overall. Passed on a lot of great talent.

In the first off-season after his rookie season, Erik Johnson was hit by ugly bad luck. A golf cart incident, at a team event, in which he needed surgery for ligaments on one of his knees and he missed a whole year. Not good for development.

Man stop this nonsense, Stevie Y was the gm when Cossa was selected, he bouta turn out better than wallstedt anyways

He's talking about with Edmonton. They absolutely needed a goalie and traded their pick away to Minnesota instead of drafting Wallstedt, went back two picks and took Xavier Bourgault. That was the biggest shock of the draft. Holland is a moron.

@@maxsharp9807 Fumbed it as the current Edmonton GM. Could have had him at 20, traded back with Minnesota who took him...and they have zero goalie prospects.

@@biggalo Did Stuart Skinner retire?

The top teams were locked in their selections... except for Montreal. NJ was always going to pick a defenseman and Arizona was always going to pick the US born (and player who didn't lose a year of development) Cooley. Only time will tell if Montreal and Arizona made the right choices.

he was the big shit