To add onto that, if we are taking out the really premier guys like Cossa, Askarov, Wallstedt, and Knight (since none of them were available with our picks anyways, so we'd need to trade up for them), the goalie crops really have not yielded too many guys who, to this point, have looked all that impressive.
It is still early of course, but even then, Hofer and Dostal seem like the only ones who look regrettable at this point. Stotts did not pan out and those guys were taken soon after. However, Dubas only had a few weeks with the board for that draft, so we may have not been able to scout these guys enough for them to warrant a selection.
I think the ones that somewhat screams iffy to me at this point is taking Akhtyamov over Bednar (could have also moved up a few spots to get Garand too, but we can let that one go). Bednar is not exactly an elite prospect in his own right, but I had little faith in Akhtyamov then and he hasn't done anything to change that at this point. Levi and Wolf going late of course possibly too, especially since the guys we took over them (Akhtyamov, Rindell, Fusco and Loponen namely) were not exactly guys who should have been high priorities anyways, but being smaller goalies, there are always risks. It is the same thing with Sergei Ivanov this year, but I would have easily taken him (or Ty Young) over Grebyonkin.
I think the real slap in the face was taking Moldenhauer over Brennan though. Brennan is a guy who would have been a Woll-level prospect for us with legit starting potential and would have easily been in the mix of the guys found after the Robertson/Niemela/Amirov/Knies tier. Moldenhauer is a solid prospect himself, but he is nothing special. He is a complimentary winger who is, at best, in the mid-late teens in our pool and surrounded by a bunch of other solid but unspectacular talent that we have routinely accumulated through free agency and mid-late round picks (including Lisowsky, who oddly fell to the 7th round of the same draft). Maybe Moldenhauer works out and Brennan does not, but that is probably a safer bet than most.
