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Chevy drafts 2011-16 set our franchise up for where we are now.
6 drafts
2011- Schiefele 7 th / Lowry 67
2012 - Trouba 8 th
2013 - Morrissey 13 th
2014 - Ehlers 8 th
2015 - Connor 15 th
2016 - Laine 2 nd (trade returns)
Through in a steal of Hellybuck in the 5 th round in The middle of the 6 year run and that’s our core…
( Trading out RD Trouba for RD Pionk along the way)
since 2016 our only real draft hits paying dividends in these playoffs is Samberg and Perfetti….
Andrew Copp as a 2013 4th rd pick turned out to carry some value, in his play, and the biggest reason for 2 of the Jets best prospects. Jets got some mileage out of Appleton in 2015 draft. That was largely considered the Jets best draft. Still players in the NHL elsewhere from that draft, some of whom had some impact in the 2018-2020 results of the Jets.
2017 got Samberg at least. 2018, starting at 60 was worth the playoff run. 2019 was a bad draft in retrospect.
You get to 2020 and that's Perfetti, who is just breaking through now, after fighting some injuries and being iced down the stretch last year. The other 3 picks were busts.
So 2021 on they still are developing with little room on a veteran team. Down one 1st round pick to retirement.
Probably in the next 2 years you'll start to see some turnover in the forwards, towards younger players. But that will symbolize a team that is no longer competing to be the best, probably competing just to make the playoffs, with room for error.
2022 is the only draft after 2020 where the Jets had more than 5 picks, and that's set now for the next 3 drafts without some trades.
There can always be some hindsight on the picks used to shore up the defense, vs the picks lost to waivers because the defense was shored up. And Stanley is part of that narrative.
But here we are.