I think the 2019 draftees rank favourably
Remember part of my rationale behind my ranking of Keller at 8 his draft year was my belief that it didn’t make sense to draft another small top 6 winger with Domi already in the lineup (I’m aware Domi doesn’t play like his height so spare me the debate - we bashed it out his draft year when I favored the C over the small winger). I just think u become so much easier to play against when u completely ignore size as a consideration in your top scoring lines. It’s a balance I know as we’ve also struggled with having skill in the lineup period but I’m hesitant to load up on many smaller wingers unless the skill set is just too much to overlook (as it was with Keller despite my degrading him in my personal rankings). I will be fighting my bias when I look at Caufield in my final rankings. He scores. That’s important.
It’s like winning the lottery in the drawing after somebody hits the huge powerball. They get 900 million and you win the 2mil pot and have to split it with another winner. You end up taking home 600kay which solves some serious problems, but you still have to go to work. It’s really nice and all but you’re not really a lottery winner in the same sense as those mega millions guys who all took home half a billion after winning McDavid and Eichel and Matthews and Laine, etc.
That site isn’t really a mock. They don’t take individual teams into consideration. It’s a ranking of players and a ranking of teams. They don’t evaluate needs or trends of individual teams.
It’s true. Anyway, there are a bunch or really appealing forwards in our range. Hughes, Kakko, Podkolzin, Cozens, Dach, Krebs, Turcotte, Boldy, Zegras makes nine forwards that I’d be thrilled to add. Apart from Hughes, they’re all mature two-way forwards that would be good fits. Especially Kakko, Podkolzin, Cozens, Krebs, Turcotte and Boldy have that Barrett Hayton element to their games of being really hard workers who have all the details covered.
