Start franchise with the top 6 picks of 2015 or 2017?

[Conspiracy Theorist]

That 2017 group might be enough to win a cup.

 

[Love]

I would take the 2017 group. The two defenceman are just way too good and a 1-2 centre punch of Pettersson/Hischier is outstanding.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

2017 is more balanced, but 2015 has the two best players, and 3 of the best 6.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

it's bait. why are you guys responding to that?

its not bait

 

[Merrrlin]

mcdavid = pettersson
eichel > hischier
marner = heiskanen
strome << makar
hanifin < patrick
zacha > glass

2017 i guess.

This forum has lost it's mind.

 

[Dache]

mcdavid = pettersson

what!?

 

[Dache]

Easily 2015. Best player in the league and the clear second best player of the group in Eichel. The defenders in the 2017 class are amazing but the forwards are really underwhelming.

Mcdavid - Eichel - Zacha down the middle is incredible center depth

Trade Marner for a top pair d, Hanifin anchors a 2nd pairing.

Hell if you want you could trade McDavid for most of the other group.

 

[DaPhazz]

mcdavid = pettersson
eichel > hischier
marner = heiskanen
strome << makar
hanifin < patrick
zacha > glass

2017 i guess.

crazy, crazy, crazy talk

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

This forum has lost it's mind.

No, that poster literally just judges everything based on his favorite "isolated metrics" stats.

 

[Elvs]

I'm taking McDavid and Eichel and then I'm trading Marner for Heiskanen

 

[DS7]

On Paper, 2015, just because of McD and Eichel alone, that gets my vote

But having two top D in Makar/Heiskanen plus Petey in the 1C slot. I can see this team taking a series against 2015

 

[AB13]

This forum has lost it's mind.

I love Pettersson, he is one of my favorite players in the league but, some people need to stop reading hockey and start watching it

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

I'm taking McDavid and Eichel and then I'm trading Marner for Heiskanen

Every GM would trade Heiskanen for Marner no doubt.

 

[Tkachuky]

Pettersson is the best player in the league.

Of all time.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Tough one. I’d probably lean for the McDavid group, but a Petterson, Makar, Heiskanen led team with Hischier as 2C would be ridiculous.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

mcdavid = pettersson
eichel > hischier
marner = heiskanen
strome << makar
hanifin < patrick
zacha > glass

2017 i guess.

this is the worst evaluation I've seen in a long time. And you've posted some delusional ones before (cough Kase is a top 10 NHL player cough cough) so thats a big statement

 

[The Moose is Loose]

all i know is that Heiskanen is the ONE Dman in the whole lesgue i'd choose to Mark McDavis.
He's fast, size and most importantly he's very smart

Well that makes one of you

 

[Muffin]

Also

mcdavid ≠ pettersson you’re on something

Also in what world does Patrick>Hanafin. We're not even sure if Patrick will play another NHL game and he wasn't even good when he was playing

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Also

Also in what world does Patrick>Hanafin. We're not even sure if Patrick will play another NHL game and he wasn't even good when he was playing

patrick's 18-19 is more impressive than anything hanifins done in years

 

[tarheelhockey]

This was a lot closer than I expected. McDavid makes a big difference, but if you set him to the level of a normal #1 (say at Eichel's level) then I would pretty easily take the 2017 group.

 

[Muffin]

patrick's 18-19 is more impressive than anything hanifins done in years

He was outscored by Hanafin who is a Defenseman...

 

[North Cole]

Kind of the multi-player equivalent of talent over need. McDavid, Eichel and Marner are an embarrassment of offensive riches, but Pettersson, Hischier, Heiskanen and Makar fill a lot of the boxes you want in a core. I think I might take 2017 for the balance. We've seen how hard it's been for the Oilers to fill in around McDavid and Draisaitl. With 2017, you get a worse but still really good 1-2 punch at center going forward, but then likely one of the best if not the best 1-2 punch on the backend going forward. It's much easier to fill a defense when you have two number 1s already.

Incompetent management isn't a reason to pass BPA's. Just because we failed surrounding them with legitimate players, doesn't mean an Org like Boston would. Hell, give Yzerman or Sakic the 2015 core, and it's probably lights out.

 

[Langdon Alger]

McDavid and Eichel as your top two centres? Pretty damn good. Then again, Heiskanen and Makar as your top two defenceman is tempting. Probably lean toward 2015 though.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

this is the worst evaluation I've seen in a long time. And you've posted some delusional ones before (cough Kase is a top 10 NHL player cough cough) so thats a big statement

If these various analytics were around back in the 1980s, I bet we'd see a handful of people arguing that Denis Savard was on par with Wayne Gretzky.

 

[CowbellConray]

Pure Value Review (ranked by how I value the players in each draft)
Mcdavid > Pettersson
Eichel > Heiskanen
Marner < Makar (though close)
Strome = Hischier (I think this is quite close as well)
Hanifin > Glass
Zacha > Patrick

I think this is 2015 right now. I also think we are seeing all 2017 top players in the playoffs, vs. the 2015 top players not playing currently. So that likely biased the view.

2015 over 2017, but a good matchup