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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Fair bit of no name guys on that Jets list.
I think the key for them is hitting on their first rounders. Schieifele, Trouba, Morrissey, Ehlers, Connor, Laine are 6 straight first rounders thst are at or exceeding expectations. Literally 4 top 6 forwards and 2 top 4 D
Flames later rounds in recent years looks impressive
Gaudreau- 11 (Granlund/Sven NHLers)
Kulak, Gillies, Jankowski -12
Monahan -13
Bennett- 14
Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane -15
Tkachuk, Dube, Parsons, Philipps 16
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Also their team has been drafting from a high position going back to Atlanta, but even just looking at when they moved to Winnipeg in 2011, they’ve only had two picks outside of the top 10 (13th in ‘13, 17th in 2015) up until the last draft where there was lots of moving around in the first because of the expansion draft. Meanwhile we started drafting high in 2013... and also traded away our 2015 first rounder to aquire Dougie...(which I think was a good move). Bennett is currently our only real miss since 2013, and he’s still got a chance to recoup that value if he can figure this #### out.
Point being- we are way ahead of where Winnipeg was at, at this respective time in their rebuild.
Also Tkachuk is a better overall player than Laine. Ya I said it