I don't think I've disputed that we have had less draft picks in the past 7 years then the 1st 7... I just think people over estimate how much value we actually lost when trading those picks
picks traded:
4th, 7th, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 6th, 2nd, 2nd, 6th, 4th,1st,7th
Whenever an NHL draft is approaching, the excitement level and hype around the players go through the roof. It’s an exciting time for sure but it seems like most people don’t have realistic expectations when it comes to the draft. To help with that, I decided to
dobberprospects.com
now if you add up all the % of those picks going by that chart you would expect to have just under 2 nhlers play >99 games without taking in account the actual quality of said players
even ignoring our rentals we I think we came away with more value overall
demelo (295 games) + 4 years
stastny (127 games)
dillon(238 games)
schmidt(211 games)
appleton(142 games) +1 year
niederreiter (99 games) + 3 years
namestnikov (98 games) +1 year
miller(remains to be seen)
yes, we haven't been a draft and develop team because we went into win now mode, you cannot build an entire team thru the draft, so we had to fill the holes we had with draft picks, overall I think we ended up coming out with more value then lost