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Originally Posted by Hackey
It's a completely fair statement. None of his picks have turned into anything yet. People praise him like these picks have all panned out yet none of them have. Obviously it is still to early but if it's to early to write them off then it's to early to pencil them in as well. It has to go both ways.
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People are praising him for starting a rebuild with a promising outlook. Pointing out that kids drafted in 2011 haven't made the NHL yet is not a completely fair statement.
Brett Kulak, Jon Gillies, Patrick Sieloff, Mark Jankowski, Morgan Klimchuk, Emile Poirier, Sean Monahan, Sven Baertschi, Markus Granlund, Tyler Wotherspoon, and Johnny Gaudreau is a pretty damn impressive list of players to be excited about. It is most definitely too early to write them off... obviously. But it is definitely not unreasonable to consider the draft itself successful.