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

OP must be 15 years old. A guy who put up 24 points as a 21 year old in the NHL can't be the biggest bust ever. He may not end up a bust at all. You can look down the 00's high draft picks of Columbus and take your pick of a few guys - Filatov, Brule, Picard.
 
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There's a practically zero % chance of him hitting anything near franchise winger as was hoped. But he's also only an unsustainably low shooting percentage away from being a responsible 20/20 middle 6 guy. If that is his future, he's drafted at most a round too early.
 
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Kevin8se7en said:
Same tbh. I'm not a fan of players like Brady because they usually bust. Brady is the exception and I'm happy I was wrong.
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It's the Curtis Lazar Effect (sounds like a progressive rock band).

Frustrating simply because of their draft position. Meanwhile Lazar has carved out a nice little career.
 
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Kryptekah said:
Disagree.

Hayton went into that draft being ranked anywhere between 10 and 15, he had NOWHERE NEAR the hype of Zadina who was seen as essentially the consensus third best player from that draft going into it.View attachment 596941View attachment 596940
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hfboards: where where you were ranked on media scouting reports before the draft matters more than where you were actually drafted
 
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Kryptekah said:
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.
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There is no chance he had more hype than a guy like Nail Yakupov. You can throw a rock and hit ten guys in the last 15-20 years who didn't pan out and were "hyped" a lot.
 
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Actually, that was how it happened: “I was telling my agent, if they will pass on me, I’m going to fill their nets with pucks,” the newly-drafted Zadina said, via Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press. “I want to prove to Detroit that they make a pretty good decision.”
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Actually the words Montreal or Habs were never used by the player or the journalist.
 
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9th in scoring in his draft... he was taken 6th. The 5th was Barret Hayton. For sure Hughes would've been a better pick.
 
Some other 6th overall picks from years prior to Zadina:

Cody Glass
Pavel Zacha
Jake Virtanen
Hampus Lindholm
Brett Connoly
Nikita Filatov
Gilbert Brule
Al Montoya
 
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Zadina was the HFBoards hype triple threat:

1. Played at the WJC in his draft and performed very well

2. Was a late birthday and as an 01' was a development year ahead of most of the '02s in the 2018 draft (which hardly anyone took into consideration)

3. Put up big numbers and had a high skill level, allowing many to ignore his flaws (not fast, not big, not much else to his game besides scoring).

The talk of him going #2 was laughable and classic HF. Almost became the consensus around here even though Svechnikov was tiers above as a prospect.
 
Zadina is a draft disappointment, not a bust. I bet he has a long career in the NHL as a reasonable secondary scorer, he's just developing slowly, and won't ever be a star.

I 100% wanted the Sens to draft Brady, mainly because I love that type of player, nothing against Zadina, I thought he'd be better than he's shown.
 
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I used to defend the Zadina pick a decent amount around these parts, but yeah he is looking like a bad pick at #6. I desperately wanted Dobson on draft day, or at least one of the defensemen (Hughes, Bouchard, Boqvist.)

Zadina hasn't figured it out yet, but this thread is misguided even acknowledging it was a bad pick. There's guys taken top ~5-10 that are worse than Zadina in many drafts. Just look back through them year by year. Picking 6th is far from a guarantee of anything. So he had a quote on draft day. Okay? That impacts his play/ career now? This "gotcha" shit has been going on ever since and whatever I get it to a degree, but at this point, is it really interesting or thought provoking to dunk on a 22 year old who is struggling?

Thank God Tyler Wright and that scouting staff is now mostly gone.
 
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I'm a Wings fan but don't really follow prospects and drafts and whatnot. What was surprising to me is people seemed to be talking about his shot and being a "pure scorer" when that is one of the weakest parts of his game.

He can carry the puck through traffic reasonably well but his shot selection and decision making in regards to scoring is poor.
 
Ezekial said:
Actually the words Montreal or Habs were never used by the player or the journalist.
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The words "Montreal" or "Habs" weren't necessary. He said that he was going to fill the net with pucks if "they" passed on him. Since the Montreal Canadiens were a team that passed on Zadina, it's safe to assume they were one of the teams he was talking about.
 
CTHabsfan said:
The words "Montreal" or "Habs" weren't necessary. He said that he was going to fill the net with pucks if "they" passed on him. Since the Montreal Canadiens were a team that passed on Zadina, it's safe to assume they were one of the teams he was talking about.
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I think you should read the original post and my original response.

"I remember when habs picked Kotka , Zadina was sure he was habs because of the rumours and then when he dropped he said on french media ''ill fill that habs net''
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And I said that's not actually how it happened - because it wasn't.

He didn't say that to the "french media" or specifically say "I'm going to fill the habs net"

Luckily that guy has you to stick up for him for some jingoistic reason.
 
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