Very nice. Now, are you willing to go through the last ten or fifteen years of the draft, pick out every single forward drafted in the top-10 by every NHL team, evaluate whether or not they are "1st line, All Star type players", and thereby double-check whether or not this assertion has any basis in reality whatsoever?
I mean, I've done that before, and I think this is the height of hyperbolic bat**** insanity, but nobody listens to me on such things because I'm the "blind optimist".
It's not the height of insanity, but know that my opinion on the matter is tempered because it's me making the statement.
The idea of simply making a sweeping judgment across the level of where a player is picked without any consideration for other factors, that is insane.
Just for the hell of it, 6th overall picks since 1995:
Steve Kelly, Boyd Devereaux, Dan Tkaczuk, Rico Fata, Brian Finley, Scott Hartnell, Mikko Koivu, Scottie Upshall, Milan Michalek, Al Montoya, Gilbert Brule, Sam Gagner, Nikita Filatov, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Brett Connolly, Mika Zibanejad, Hampus Lindholm.
That list is so bad that it takes all of 10 seconds to brand Ekman-Larsson, who's just now beginning his third season, as
easily among the four best 6th overall picks in the last 18 drafts.
And Hartnell needed until his 8th season (and more ice time than ever) to hit 50 points at all.