All I can hold onto hope about is someone makes an oops about McQueen and jumps on him in that top 5 and pushes someone down, or that Martone or Hagens maybe have a bit of a fall.
This is probably the only draft I can remember where no one fought and seized a top-3 spot in their draft season, with a honorable mention should out to Misa.
Schafer kind of got put into that 1 spot with his Hlinka, Prospect showcase and early season play, but since then it's again been uninspiring from everyone else. Hagens played himself out (not that he played poorly by any means) of the 1st overall spot. Martone came back from the world junior looking like he had his confidence busted up a bit, and have seen him start to fall down to 5 and even 6 in a few spots. Misa is the only one that made a good push and kind of maintained his 2-3 spot but then was absolutely invisible in the playoffs in a coin toss series against Erie. Frondell played and produced like your standard early-ish first round Swede or Finn playing in the 2nd tier mens pro league would. Poor McQueen secured himself on my DND before 12 spot. Big, tall kid with back and hip issues at 18 with an early birthday, skating issues and one-ish dimensional play.
If we end up with the Rangers 1st, the only guy I can really say I'd be excited about is getting Lynden Lakovic in the teens. Great size, great skater, great hands and chaining for his size and carried an abysmal Moose Jaw Warriors offense all year and showed extremely well at the showcase. I feel like he's flown under the radar because his Draft-1 year he played limited minutes behind an absolutely stacked offense in Moose Jaw and then his draft year, that entire offense is gone so he's the guy now but with almost no support. He leads the team in PPG @ 1.23 PPG. 2nd is an undrafted 19 year old Dman with 0.71 PPG. Kovacevic who is an OA was 2nd at 1.21 before being traded halfway through the season and Yager was obviously gone at the 20 game mark, but was clicking at a 1.42 rate.
