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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
If we're gonna name drop like this, then I should probably remind you that the guys I had ahead of Tkachuk were primarily Matthews, Laine, Puljujarvi, Dubois, Sergachyev, Keller, (and I don't remember exactly, but maybe Chychrun)
I'm not saying I didn't make any mistakes or that the scouts aren't to be trusted, but I still think all the guys above save Puljujarvi/Chychrun are guys who haven't looked worse than Tkachuk at all, and are players you not only win with, but players that would have helped this team play an uptempo style a la Tampa, Vegas or Winnipeg. Tkachuk's been awesome but I still think Dubois, Keller and Sergachev are studs. Puljujarvi's the big surprise. And I think Chyuchrun is probably an upgrade on Travis Hamonic, right now, which would have allowed us to use our 2018 picks, albeit probably not on a player as good as Tkachuk (unless a Connor/Barzal/Boeser type guy fell to us at 12).
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Yeah the top end of that draft was pretty crazy. It would’ve been hard to go wrong. Heck McAvoy would’ve been a fine pick as well. Only Juolevi and Nylander look questionable out of the top 9. But there were a lot of fans on this board on the Nylander bandwagon. At #6 we were guaranteed a choice of a few great prospects. My favourite one outside the top 3 ended up falling to us, so I was ecstatic.
Anyways I think Brady Tkachuk is being underrated by some fans on this board. Which is strange since we are so familiar with how good his brother is. There’s a reason he’s rated highly and this talk of him being massively overrated seems silly to me. Reminds me of Matthew’s draft year where we had fans saying Tkachuk rode the coat tails of Marner/Dvorak and had no elite skills. Not saying you in particular said those things GranteedEV but there was definitely a lot of interesting discussion on the top prospects that year.
Anyways no need to debate the top end this year that much unless Treliving pulls off a big trade.