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Originally Posted by KenHouston
Ya not sold on 1st rounders. Would want some prospects that are projecting well. I mean wow 8 picks in 2013 and 3 first rounders. We thankfully got one star player.
SEAN MONAHAN (C) Drafted: 1st round (6th overall) ...
EMILE POIRIER (LW) Drafted: 1st round (22nd overall) ...
MORGAN KLIMCHUK (LW) Drafted: 1st round (28th overall) ...
KEEGAN KANZIG (D) ...
ERIC ROY (D) ...
TIM HARRISON (C) ...
RUSHAN RAFIKOV (D) ...
JOHN GILMOUR (D)
In fact look at the Leafs in 89 ouch!! 3, 21 and 21.
198913Scott Thornton CanadaC9411441412851459—————
1989112Rob Pearson CanadaRW2695654110645—————
1989121Steve Bancroft
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That’s true. There’s always that risk with picks. If the flames picked 5 times in the first round, a good outcome from it would be 2 of those picks turning into impact players in the NHL.
However, when you look back at the 2013 draft, it really was a top-heavy draft. MacKinnon, Barkov, Lindholm, Monahan and Horvat were by far the best players to come out of that draft. Besides them, there was a lot of busts and a few “meh” players. I don’t know how this draft projects compared to the 2013 draft but most people consider the 2023 draft to be very skilled and deep compared to others.
If the flames were picking 3 times in the first round of 2015 draft, for example, they would have had a better chance of picking more impact players. Rantanen, Crouse, Gurianov, DeBrusk, Barzal, Connor and Chabot all went between picks 10 and 18. And lots of other great players were picked outside the top 20 in that draft.
It’s entirely dependent on how you assess the strength of this draft and how much you trust the current scouting staff to make their picks. Boston had 3 picks in a row (13 to 15) in that 2015 draft and missed big on 2 of them. Better players were picked just before and just after those Boston picks so their scouting staff really dropped the ball.
You’re definitely right that having young prospects already showing proper development is ideal to acquire in these trades… but it might diminish the chances of getting these trades done at this draft. For example, if the flames try to get a top 5 prospect from Buffalo, they may not be willing to trade that 13th overall pick.
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