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Originally Posted by gvitaly
That's true, but the 2022, and 2021(after Coronato) drafts look like complete misses at this point.
In contrast, the 2020 draft seems like a home run of a draft with Zary, Poirier, Kuznetsov, Kerins and Solovyov(overager).
With hindsight, Topi Ronni, and William Stromgren seem like pretty bad 2nd round picks.
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Calling them bad this early seems a bit harsh. Stromgren and Ronni were both consensus second round picks in their respective drafts.
Stromgren is 20 years old, in his first AHL season, and playing mostly on the fourth line on a good AHL team. In hindsight, it probably would have been better for the Flames to have him play this season in the CHL as an overager, but players this young can bounce back.
Lets look at two more players from Stromgren's draft:
Samu Tuomaala is six months older than Stromgren and was being called a bust last year for subpar play in the Finnish Liiga, but his development took a massive jump seemingly overnight and he's having a good year in the AHL this season.
Brad Lambert was being called a bust last year for not being able to hack it in the AHL, but his development has also seemingly taken a big leap overnight.
Stromgren is really skilled. It will be concerning if he doesn't show any progression next season, but he's still got time to put it together.
As for Ronni, he's a fourth liner on one of the best teams in the Finnish Liiga and he's dominating the Finnish U20 league. He's doing fine for a D+2 player that projects as a potential two-way or defensive forward in the NHL. Other than the fact that he might never play in the NHL due to the off-ice issue