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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
2nd round for sure or later but that would be the case for several 1st round picks with the benefit of hindsight.
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Honzek is one of only 10 players from that draft who has played actual NHL games already and is, by all accounts, playing well in the AHL for a first season. He's had some injury issues, which slowed his development, but he seems to be back on track and progressing well as one of the youngest players in the AHL.
Looking at the 2023 draft and the players drafted around him and after him, not sure how you can say he'd fall to the second round in a re-draft, much less fall further than that.
It's early, give the kid time. This is why re-drafts aren't done a year and a half after the fact.