2017 Draft Class downgraded from "Weak" to "Terrible"

[Balthazar]

According to this article, at least.

No superstar, lack of depth and GM's are more than willing to trade their 1st:

http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/02/14/in-terrible-draft-year-will-more-first-round-picks-be-traded/

 

[tarheelhockey]

Canes lottery win incoming.

 

[Avs44]

Canes lottery win incoming.

This is the year the Avs decided it was a good time to have a historically bad season.

 

[Super Cake]

This is the year the Avs decided it was a good time to have a historically bad season.

This is also the year the Wings decided it was time to get a bottom 10 pick.

 

[Panthaz89]

I still feel the top 10 can be as good as any of the recent ones outside of the not having a clear superstar but after that the depth in this draft is just a plain crapshoot.

 

[Smeagoal]

Canes lottery win incoming.

This is the year the Avs decided it was a good time to have a historically bad season.

Get out of here you vultures! This is the year the Canucks finally win something...

 

[SladeWilson23]

Devils will gladly take all of your 1st round picks.

 

[Balthazar]

I still feel the top 10 can be as good as any of the recent ones outside of the not having a clear superstar but after that the depth in this draft is just a plain crapshoot.

Top 10? You mean top 2:

This is considered a weak draft class. After the top two players - center Nolan Patrick, who was Ivan Provorov's teammate in juniors, and Nico Hischier, a center called the Swiss Connor McDavid - there isn't much difference among the rest of the first-round talent, scouts say.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/20170219_Time_to_break_up_the_flawed_Flyers.html

This isn't the firs time I read this either. It's a crapshoot after the top 2.

 

[SladeWilson23]

Top 10? You mean top 2:

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/20170219_Time_to_break_up_the_flawed_Flyers.html

This isn't the firs time I read this either. It's a crapshoot after the top 2.

Hischier isn't even a lock at 2.

 

[Panthaz89]

Top 10? You mean top 2:



http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/20170219_Time_to_break_up_the_flawed_Flyers.html

This isn't the firs time I read this either. It's a crapshoot after the top 2.

I don't believe it is....3 of the defenseman alone in the top 10 or so are all very good.

 

[Balthazar]

I don't believe it is....3 of the defenseman alone in the top 10 or so are all very good.

There's no consensus amongst scouts. Some gave Liljegren at #3, others as low #17...etc.

 

[Jeffrey]

Nolan Patrick is a solid top pick. I would rather have him than Yakupov.

 

[Territory]

I bet you there will be some gems nobody saw coming.

 

[Balthazar]

Nolan Patrick is a solid top pick. I would rather have him than Yakupov.

 

[ZZamboni]

Well, opinions are like buttholes ...

Everybody's got one.

 

[Wingsfan 4 life]

Does NBC do their own TDL thing? This seems more like a clickbait article trying to hype the deadline rather than downgrade the draft.

 

[Martinez]

Sweet, vanek will definitely get a first round pick then

 

[CanadienShark]

This is the year the Avs decided it was a good time to have a historically bad season.

To be fair, they also decided to suck for MacKinnon.

 

[SladeWilson23]

By all accounts, it sounds like Patrick is another Toews.

 

[McKappa]

It's a two person draft followed by 30 boom bust prospects.

This is 2012 levels of lol

 

[biturbo19]

I don't know that i'd call it outright "terrible", but it's definitely not looking like a draft with abundant clear-cut talent at the top, and once you get past Patrick+Hischier, it really does look like a crapshoot draft. Guys ranked all over the place depending on the scout...lots of guys with interesting potential, but also big questionmarks or red flags.


Still don't see that inducing a lot of teams to move more 1st round picks than normal. Those top picks are just too crucial these days, getting young talent infusion to help manage the cap.

This draft looks like one that will have some "steals" and some real "busts". Hence the wildly polarized rankings and opinions on so many of the prospects. It's a roll of the dice (probably even more than usual), but the chance of getting that all important "steal" is still just too much for teams to give up in this day and age where youth is so critical to success.

 

[Duke749]

Canes lottery win incoming.

My Jets got Laine last year. I'm pulling for you guys.

 

[Hale The Villain]

This is the year the Avs decided it was a good time to have a historically bad season.

They've had 5 top 10 picks in the last 8 years, in 3 of those years they picked #1, #2, and #3, picking MacKinnon, Landeskog and Duchene respectively. The other two picks were at #10, getting Rantanen and Jost, two future top line studs.

The Avs, perhaps more so than any other team in the league, should not complain about the quality of prospect available when they have a high draft pick

 

[Captain Jellico]

After the 1999 Draft, I don't believe a draft is horrible or good anymore. Maybe for generational players, but there's still a chance a Kucherov, Webber, or Benn can be found. All about development and organizational philosophy.

 

[Jumptheshark]

According to this article, at least.

No superstar, lack of depth and GM's are more than willing to trade their 1st:

http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/02/14/in-terrible-draft-year-will-more-first-round-picks-be-traded/

this has been known for awhile

one reason why there are so many first rounders in play

even the top guys are labled as projects right now