[Robbob]

Made me curious as to the amount of cup winners in the lot, so players with a cup are bolded. 23 cup winners on the list. 8 were drafted in the top 10. One of those was Seguin, so you could debate his impact as a rookie on the Bruins cup team. Either way, with him included less that half of the players on the list were drafted top 10. There is talent outside of the top ten that can help a team win a cup. It is not top 10 or bust.

8 players drafted in the top 10
9 players drafted in the first round outside the top 10
6 players drafted outside the 1st round

Originally Posted by Robbob

Just also wanted to add that to the many bullet plan, here are the top 10 points from forwards from their draft class and where they were drafted.

2010 - Seguin (2), Hall (1), Skinner (7), Tarasenko (16), Stone (178), Granlund (9), Johansen (4), Kuznetsov (26), Nelson (30), Toffoli (47)

2011 - Kucherov (58), Scheifele (7), Huberdeau (3), Gaudreau (104), Tenderness (1), Zibanejad (6), Miller (15), Landeskog (2), Trocheck (64), Couturier (8)

2012 - Forsberg (11), Hertl (17), Teravainen (18), Wilson (16), Galchenyuk (3), Stephenson (77), Pearson (30), Kerfoot (150), Laughton (20), Tierney (55)

2013 - Mackinnon (1), Barkov (2), Lindholm (5), Monahan (6), Horvat (9), Guentzel (77), Domi (13), Buchnevich (75), Bjorkstrand (89), Burakovsky (23)

2014 - Pissy (3), Pastrnak (25), Point (79), Reinhart (2), Nylander (8), Larkin (15), Ehjers (9), Fiala (11), Schmaltz (20), Arvidsson (112)

2015 - Mcavi (1), Marner (4), Rantanen (10), Aho (35), Eichel (1), Conner (17), Barzal (16), Konecny (24), Boser (23), Meier (9), Kaprizov (135)

2016 - Matthews (1), Tkachuk (6), DeBrincat (39), Keller (7), Bratt (162), Laine (2), Dubois (3), Kyrou (35), Thompson (26), Hagel (159)

2017 - Pettersson (5), Hischier (1), Robertson (39), Thomas (20), Suzuki (13), Necas (12), Batherson (121), Mittelstadt (8), Tippett (10) Chytil (21)

2018 - Tkachuk (4), Svechnikov (2), Farabee (14), Kotkaniemi (3), Sharangovich (141), Kurashev (120), Marchenko (49), Hayton (5), McLeod (40), Zadina (6)

2019 - Hughes (1), Boldy (12), Caufield (15), Cozens (7), Zegres (9), Kakko (2), Maccelli (98), Dach (3), Newhook (16), Hoglander (40)

2020 - Stutzle (3), Raymond (4), Jarvis (13), Lafreniere (1), Mercer (18) Lundell (12), Peterka (34), Byfield (2), Perfetti (10), Rossi (9)

Only had time to do 11 drafts, but that is probably a decent sample size to show that at least 4 in every draft there are players outside the top 10.