The 2015 draft's defencemen selection in the first round was very disappointing to say the least.

[Bjornar Moxnes]

The 2015 is known as a legendary draft, but the Dmen selected in the first round were very disappointing overall. You have Werenski who has just established himself as an elite Dman, but even then prior to this season he was more of a fringe 1st pairing Dman. After that, you have:

Chabot
Hanifin
Provorov

Juulsen
Larsson

Carlsson
Zboril

Chabot is one of the best 2nd pairing Dman in the league, but subpar as a 1st pairing Dman. Hanifin is a strong 2nd pairing Dman, nothing more, and Provorov is a solid 2nd pairing Dman.

The remaining four, though? LMFAO. The fact that Juulsen wasn't the worst Dman picked in the first round speaks volume.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Bro you just listed a bunch of really good defensemen.

 

[Voodoo Child]

Chabot, Werenski, Provorov and Hanifin are definitely first round talents, and you had Andersson, Cernak, Carlo and Dunn in the 2nd. Andersson and Dunn are first round level talents.

Later on you got Marino, Mikkola, Carrier Gavrikov and Roy.

...I mean it's not amazing but it's far from horrible. G was by far the weakest position in that draft and as we know it's probably the best or second best forward draft of the century.

 

[Static]

Larsson tore his knee up not long after being drafted and really missed a lot of development time and lost mobility. Bummer for him.

 

[I am not exposed]

Looks like a lot of established good to great Dman. I would say that is a really good turnout from a draft class.

 

[FrankSidebottom]

Werenski is a star, Hanifin, Provorov, Chabot, Andersson and Gavrikov are 1st pairing Dman. It was fine.

 

[Sam de Mtl]

Larsson tore his knee up not long after being drafted and really missed a lot of development time and lost mobility. Bummer for him.

Injuries are the story with Juulsen also.

It's a shame for them. Hard to fault them or the scouts.

 

[Gliff]

Larsson tore his knee up not long after being drafted and really missed a lot of development time and lost mobility. Bummer for him.

It’s sad because I genuinely think he would have been the best out of all the Ducks defensemen prospects then. He was so good before he hurt his knee.

 

[SlapJack]

Werenski has always been a good #1, just had injury problems.

 

[Viqsi]

When the Jackets pulled off The Sweep, our entire LD was made up of folks from this draft - Werenski, Gavrikov, Nutivaara.

Okay, I'm slightly exaggerating. Gavrikov was mostly the year after.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

That's a pretty good draft, I'd assume. Can you compare it to the year before and after?

 

[SEALBound]

Juolevi over Matthew Tkachuk...man. That would have completely changed the Canucks organization.

 

[WarriorofTime]

What a ridiculous comment. How many 1st rounds are churning out Werenski, Hanifin, Provorov, Chabot with Zboril being the only miss from DMen drafted in the top 20.

 

[The Devilish Buffoon]

That's a pretty good draft, I'd assume. Can you compare it to the year before and after?

2014:
Ekblad
Sanheim
DeAngelo
H Fleury

2016:
McAvoy
Chychrun
Sergachev
Fabbro
Bean
Cholowski
Juolevi
Johansen

Clearly better than 2014, similar to 2016 (which was a great round for D).