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Originally Posted by GioforPM
When you give either Treliving or Feaster credit for their good picks you also have to look at the Kanzigs, Poiriers, etc.
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Those were both Feaster picks. Even with Kanzig, it's not like there are a lot of great players who were drafted after him. There are definitely many more misses than hits in the later rounds of the 2013 Draft.
For Treliving, the McDonald and Smith picks don't look that great from 2014, but that was also his first Draft and he was hired only weeks before the Draft, so it's hard to put those picks entirely on him. The picks from the last three drafts are looking better, with some guys who have shown decent NHL potential (although, only Tkachuk has reached that potential so far).
There isn't an NHL GM in history who has ever had a perfect draft history. Even the great Sam Pollock had draft busts. I believe it was Ken Holland who answered a question about the Wings having so much success with late picks like Datsyuk and Zetterberg by saying if they were really such geniuses, they wouldn't have waited so long to pick them.
Look at Chicago, they had 16 total picks in the 2006 & 2007 Drafts. The only players they got in either of those Drafts who played any games with the Hawks were Toews and Kane. All the other picks yielded 3 players who played a total of 11 NHL games and put up a total of 3 NHL points (which were all scored by Akim Aliu when he got a late-season call-up by the Flames that one year). In 2011, Chicago drafted Saad 43rd overall and Shaw 139th, they were Chicago's 4th and 8th picks of that Draft. While the players picked ahead of them weren't all busts, they weren't as good as Saad and Shaw either.