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Originally Posted by Caged Great
2011, getting 4 nhlers with 5 picks (all 5 played) including one superstar and another 1st liner, albeit with Vancouver, is a home run draft
2012, Jankowski looks like a top 6 center. Gillies looks like an NHL goalie and Kulak is an NHL regular. 3 NHLers in the draft means it's another great draft.
2013, Monahan obviously makes this draft a good one by himself. Poirier and Klimchuk are doing well in Stockton. It's not time to close the book on them yet. They are profiling to be okay depth players at the NHL level.
2014, Bennett is doing okay, not great. Still a lot of time for him to figure things out. Playing a lot better of late. The rest of the Burke draft was a Burke draft though.
2015, Hamilton + two top tier D prospects and one of the top AHLers right now. Fairly good.
2016, Tkachuk, Parsons, Dube, Fox, and Phillips are all looking exceptional right now.
2017, Valimaki and Ruzicka are similarly doing well.
Not every draft was great in the depth portions of them, but enough were.
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The bolded points are not accurate. If you weren't a Flames fan you'd think Poirier and Klimchuk are washouts and the two 2015 d-man are average prospects at best. The Poirier/Klimchuk draft is ages ago, they are what they are at this point.
2016/2017 - excluding Tkachuk - its too soon. I'd hope NHL drafted players do well in juniors or else you should get new scouts. But all of those players are years from the NHL and could go either way.