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Originally Posted by moon
I don't remember that draft but was there any clear divisions like there are this year and was last year?
For all the talk about moving last year there was a top 3 then a next 3 and those guys went in the top 6.
Yes Barkov moved from the "next 3" into the top and Jones fell out a spot but for the most part the guys went about where they were expected.
This year again there seems to be a top 3 and then next 2 so I could see movement with how those 5 go but it would be pretty surprising to see those top 5 not go in the first 5 picks.
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There are always divisions, in every draft, every year. The thing with drafting teenagers is that those divisions get altered quite a bit moving forward.
I would say the first division in the 2014 draft is at after five. Bennett, Reinhart, Draisaitl, Ekblad then Dal Colle. I have no idea where this "top 3" division talk came from, it seems like only after the Flames landed 4th did talk of the top 3 guys become the elite of the draft started. Draisaitl has been in that group for some time now.
I hesitate to put Dal Colle in that group only because he's a winger and doesn't play the middle but he certainly has the talent to be there.
Three or four years from now that group will change, one guy will drop off some how, maybe a team surprises and takes someone off the imaginary "board" that wasn't expected to go early. Maybe Bennett can't handle playing center and gets converted to wing and doesn't look so hot anymore. Lots of possibilities.