I absolutely hate these threads.. As a fun exercise take any of the drafts and try evaluating the players 2-3 years later - it's absolutely impossible... I give you the 2011 draft for example - possibly the two best players in the draft - Johnny and kucherov were still in college and the minors respectively. Baertschi was trending towards bust territory - not sticking in the NHL, and nugent hopkins/landeskog looked like they were trending to be superstars.
Give it another 4-5 years - and then you can make a possible argument that flames should've drafted someone other than Bennett. It is way too early.
Even the Taylor hall and Tyler seguin draft year - hall outscored seguin significantly during their rookie year and still had a higher ppg their second year.. But I know who I would pick today if there was a redraft.
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