Filip Zadina is one of the biggest draft busts in NHL history.

[LeProspector]

Filip Zadina, who went 6th overall in 2018 is one of the biggest draft busts in NHL history.
He was a consensus top 3 pick going into the draft, fell to 6th where he left 3 different fanbases questioning why their teams didn’t select him and now, heading into his 5th professional season, has been a healthy scratch for all but one game.
What a fall from grace this player has seen, he didn’t even fill Montreal or Ottawa’s nets with pucks like promised.

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[the paisanos guy]

so glad we picked kotkaniemi over him

 

[Breakers]

Nah
Juolevi got worse every year

And Reinhart I Believe is playing in the North Korean Hockey league

 

[The Red Line]

Is he a bust? Yeah probably. One of the biggest in NHL history, no not even close. He's still a marginally useful player, just has no offense whatsoever.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

So many people thought the canes should/would draft him over Svech because of his history with Necas. Thank god they didn’t do that.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Gonna score four tomorrow against the Blackhawks now.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[LeProspector]

Is he a bust? Yeah probably. One of the biggest in NHL history, no not even close. He's still a marginally useful player, just has no offense whatsoever.

I think that’s where the debate of ”bust relative to expectations“ comes in In the biggest bust debate. Zadina had so much hype surrounding him Coming out of junior and many proclaimed Detroit the winners of that draft because of Zadina falling. A lot of hype around this guy.

 

[The Red Line]

I think that’s where the debate of ”bust relative to expectations“ comes in In the biggest bust debate. Zadina had so much hype surrounding him Coming out of junior and many proclaimed Detroit the winners of that draft because of Zadina falling. A lot of hype around this guy.

He was a 6th pick, not a first overall. Again, he's not even close to being one of the biggest busts in NHL history. Google it and you'll see what a real bust is.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Filip Zadina, who went 6th overall in 2018 is one of the biggest draft busts in NHL history.
He was a consensus top 3 pick going into the draft, fell to 6th where he left 3 different fanbases questioning why their teams didn’t select him and now, heading into his 5th professional season, has been a healthy scratch for all but one game.
What a fall from grace this player has seen, he didn’t even fill Montreal or Ottawa’s nets with pucks like promised.

He’s probably somewhere around 100th biggest bust in NHL history… if that’s “one of the biggest in NHL history” to you then sure…

There’s top 5 picks who could barely get into the NHL at all

He’s very very bad and likely out of the NHL shortly, but he’s farrrrr from the biggest in NHL history.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

This type of player exists in like every draft.

 

[NyQuil]

All cards on the table - I wanted him over Brady Tkachuk at the time.

I definitely wanted Svechnikov over both - but now I'm pretty happy with Brady.

 

[Three On Zero]

Yakupov says hi

 

[nbwingsfan]

I think that’s where the debate of ”bust relative to expectations“ comes in In the biggest bust debate. Zadina had so much hype surrounding him Coming out of junior and many proclaimed Detroit the winners of that draft because of Zadina falling. A lot of hype around this guy.

Yakupov was supposed to be an absolute star and “Bure clone” to some, drafted 1st overall.

Had one good shortened season and then quickly out of the NHL.

 

[kp61c]

So many people thought the canes should/would draft him over Svech because of his history with Necas. Thank god they didn’t do that.

some of them were canes fans. i remember it because how crazy those posts looked to me then,

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Imagine if the Wings took Hughes and had the Hughes-Seider top pair

 

[NyQuil]

He’s probably somewhere around 100th biggest bust in NHL history… if that’s “one of the biggest in NHL history” to you then sure…

Maybe TSN will have a list of the top 100 draft busts and HF will laugh endlessly about a particular omission.

 

[nbwingsfan]

All cards on the table - I wanted him over Brady Tkachuk at the time.

Yeah us Wings fans were pretty unanimously ecstatic that he fell to us too

 

[The Red Line]

Maybe TSN will have a list of the top 100 draft busts and HF will laugh endlessly about a particular omission.

Guessing Malkin makes the list somewhere in the top 20.

 

[RedWingzz]

Biggest bust in NHL history is a bit bold, but yeah, Zadina is bad.

He's running out of time. He has the tools to be a good player, but just can't figure it out.

 

[NyQuil]

Yeah us Wings fans were pretty unanimously ecstatic that he fell to us too

Well, we had no goal scorers in the system and Brady Tkachuk had eight (8) in his previous season.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Nah
Juolevi got worse every year

And Reinhart I Believe is playing in the North Korean Hockey league

He’s up there for the same reason Daigle is consitered a bigger bust than Stefan/Yakupov even though Daigle had the better NHL career.

The hype around Zadina following his WJC preformance as a 17 year old was insane. Then he fell to 6 and the hockey world lost their marbles.

Reinhart never had the hype behind because of the game he played even in junior, he wasn’t very flashy, just a big, steady defender. Zadina is the bigger bust relative to expectations.

Juolevi is in a similar boat however.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Maybe TSN will have a list of the top 100 draft busts and HF will laugh endlessly about a particular omission.

Ensuing 37 page thread of posters throwing insults at each other over which of their teams had the bigger draft bust

 

[NyQuil]

Ensuing 37 page thread of posters throwing insults at each other over which of their teams had the bigger draft bust

 

[nbwingsfan]

Imagine if the Wings took Hughes and had the Hughes-Seider top pair

I’d rather not think of it (even though I think Hughes is rather garbage at actual defense)