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Is Slafkovsky the worst #1 pick ever ?

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Not saying Slaf shouldn't have went 1st overall, it's impossible to know, but man Logan Cooley would have looked great with his frat bro brother Caufield for the next 10 years. Weird drafting by Gorton.
 
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Not saying Slaf shouldn't have went 1st overall, it's impossible to know, but man Logan Cooley would have looked great with his frat bro brother Caufield for the next 10 years. Weird drafting by Gorton.
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Hughes made the pick. He’s pretty in the know about NCAA guys, so he obviously wasn’t sold on Cooley for some reason. I’ve heard rumours about his work ethic, but Cooley has looked really good so far though and looked great at the ladt WJHC’s and didn’t notice any laziness.
 
There have been multiple number one picks who never played in the NHL, so the objective answer to the OP's question is a big fat NO.

The truth is that he was selected 1st in a very average draft year. In a better draft he probably would have gone between #10 and #20.

Personally, his story so far reminds me of Kotkaniemi. Shows promise, but his development is slow. Just like with KK, we need to give him a good 3-4 years before thinking of giving up on him. He's still too young.

It's not like anybody expected him to be a superstar in the league. I'd be satisfied if he became a strong, steady 60-70 points player. Anything above that would be amazing.
 
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OKR said:
Kakko was amongst the best players in the Liiga in his draft year, then followed that up by being amongst the best players for his team at the WC, Slafkovsky barely made the Liiga and was rather underwhelming there.

Their pedigree pre-draft isn’t anyway comparable.
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Fair enough. I still think Kaako was drafted too high because of his dominance at the WC but point taken.
 
TGWL said:
Joe Thornton was a good player in his second year, even putting up 22 points in his final 31 games and close to a ppg in the playoffs. He was a bit of a partier. His first season, they played him less than most teams play their 4th line players. He jumped like 6 minutes more per night average through those first 3 years. I guess the points weren't all there in the second second season, only reaching 40ish, but he was a good player.
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If Thornton put up 22 in his final 31 that year it means he put up 19 in his 1st 50 games to go along with the 7 he had in 55 in year one. So 26 in his 1st 105 games or just under .25 pts per game. Slaf has 11 points in his first 44 games or exactly .25 pts per game.

It might be a tad early to anoint him worst no 1 overall ever. Especially with guys like Yakupov and Patrik Stefan in the running
 
I don't know if he'll be the worst 1st overall pick ever, but I'll say that having two consecutive top 5 picks and coming away with Slafkovsky and Reinbacher looks pretty disappointing on paper

And that Jeff Gorton top 10 drafting record - wow, real bad stuff
 
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CDN24 said:
If Thornton put up 22 in his final 31 that year it means he put up 19 in his 1st 50 games to go along with the 7 he had in 55 in year one. So 26 in his 1st 105 games or just under .25 pts per game. Slaf has 11 points in his first 44 games or exactly .25 pts per game.

It might be a tad early to anoint him worst no 1 overall ever. Especially with guys like Yakupov and Patrik Stefan in the running
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He got 8 minutes a night his first season. But it's not about points. Joe was a good player and didn't take 3 seasons to become a good player. I'm not saying Slaf isn't going to be a good player, break out, etc. I constantly see fans trying to compare Joe Thornton to every prospect who needs time, but the comparison is bad because Joe was a solid player.
 
AvsGuy said:
I don't know if he'll be the worst 1st overall pick ever, but I'll say that having two consecutive top 5 picks and coming away with Slafkovsky and Reinbacher looks pretty disappointing on paper

And that Jeff Gorton top 10 drafting record - wow, real bad stuff
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Not excusing the habs drafting but the poho usually isn't in charge of drafting. These picks fall on Hughes and habs head scout
 
Reality Czech said:
Fair enough. I still think Kaako was drafted too high because of his dominance at the WC but point taken.
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Hughes and Kakko were the obvious 1&2 tho, pretty much from the start the only question was who would go 3rd from multiple options. Hughes and Kakko both went on to have remarkable draft years that only helped solidify that.

At the time you would’ve been considered crazy to not have them as the top 2.
 
Felidae said:
If Slafkovsky is getting all these premature threads after a rookie season of 10 points 39 games, I can only imagine if HFBoards was active when 1st overall pick Joe Thornton had 7 points in 55 games in his first season..
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This place got worse the last decade, just like society.

Between 2003 and 2010 there weren’t so many kids around here.
 
capfit9 said:
Jeff Gorton Top 10 picks:

JURAJ SLAFKOVSKY​

ALEXIS LAFRENIÈRE​

KAAPO KAKKO​

DAVID REINBACHER​

LIAS ANDERSSON​

VITALI KRAVTSOV​

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I have been a Gorton fan for years but that little snippet is a bit of a bad look.

All "ifs and buts" but interesting to imagine Montreal with Cooley, Michkov, Tkachuk and Oettinger.
 
David Suzuki said:
Looks fine to me for a 19 year old who missed half his rookie season. Not exactly a star but the draft was not good at all in 2022.
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It was pretty clear Logan Cooley was the most talented forward prospect last year. No idea why professional scouts keep making the same mistakes year after year and overvalue size and performances in small-samples.
 
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It will be hard to find a more fundamentally bad hockey player chosen first overall then Nail Yakupov. There may be guys who are disappointing offensively or skill wise but positionally and simply having a lack of awareness on how to play the game, it will be hard to top Yakupov. At least if a guy has some fundamental skill and positioning to play the game you can still get usefulness out of him in a worst case scenario.
 
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