Machinehead
HFNYR MVP
The Kravtsov draft just sucked top to bottom. You can point to a couple of guys, but you can do that with any draft/pick.Oh 100%. Just to be clear, when I say whiff I just mean they missed. Definitely a combo of bad luck and bad drafting.
I don't expect anybody under the sun to not take Laf or Kakko. Those were the picks. Kakko just wasn't it. The guy hasn't progressed an inch from the player he was for TPS. I put that mostly on the player. Laf was a player with bad habits and this team has only exasperated his bad habits. I still don't think he was ever a Hughes caliber player even with perfect development, but in this case, I put more of his development issues on the Rangers.
The biggest whiff is Lias Andersson. Always was. Undersized, couldn't skate, and barely produced in Sweden as a pretty old prospect (was already 19 when the season started). They took a guy who was pretty clearly going to be an AHL player 7th overall based on vague vibes of leadership.