Some prospects you were shocked were passed by specific teams at the draft?

[Crazy Cizikas]

Still shocked the Habs took Carey Price over Brule, lol.

I’m still shocked they took Kostitsyn. The guy I wanted was Zach Parise, but I thought they’d take a big NAmerican forward.

I was shocked that the Isles took Robert Nilsson over Parise.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Don’t think there’s nothing that can beat Juolevi over Tkachuk.

For more recent, I would say Canucks drafting Klimovich (who was some random B leaguer in f***ing Belarus with like 0.70ppg but fooled Benning with his u18 performance) over Stankoven.

Chicago passing on Demidov is also brutal.

 

[57special]

These are all MN based...sorry.

EDM not taking Wallstedt
PHI not taking Buium when he fell to them at 12.
No one taking Heidt till 64th pick.
MN not taking Calum Ritchie or Edstrom, and taking Stramel instead.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

These are all MN based...sorry.

EDM not taking Wallstedt
PHI not taking Buium when he fell to them at 12.
No one taking Heidt till 64th pick.
MN not taking Calum Ritchie or Edstrom, and taking Stramel instead.

Thought Leafs would pick Edstrom as well, but they went for Cowan.

 

[Crow]

Hawks drafting Levshunov was likely. Weird of people to say it’s shocking now. It wasn’t even surprising. Guessing that’s just recency bias and hindsight talking.

 

[Devilmademedoit]

I'm still in shock we got Matthew Tkachuk at 6th in 2016.

A bunch of us on the CFHF board were at a draft party and I don't recall anyone saying "what if we got Tkachuk at 6th" cause it didn't seem plausible.

#1 - Toronto was picking Matthews, that was a no brainer.

#2 - Winnipeg was picking Laine, also a no brainer.

#3 - Kekalainen has to be picking one of the Finns. He's probably got some inside scoop that nobody else does. Nope, he picks PLD.

#4 - Damn, Oilers are gonna take Tkachuk. Nope, Puljujarvi!

#5 - Okay, then it's no brainer, Vancouver is definitely taking Tkachuk. What?? Juolevi???

#6 - Flames pick Tkachuk!?

I know a lot of people questioned his skating ability, but I don't think any of us at the draft party expected him to drop that low. I was certain he was going to go 3rd

Okay. Laine and jesse were interchangeable picks on 99% of scouts list going into the draft. Most only fans wanted Tkchuck but when jesse fell to them they grabbed him.