Where did Yzerman go wrong with the rebuild?

[Henkka]

Stevie basically put himself into a situation where he's gonna get fired if all of his 1st round picks aren't home runs, because he lets Draper swing at pitches waaay outside the strike zone. We can revisit this in 3 or 4 years, but you'll forget by then and be hyping the latest pick by the new GM. I actually admire how some people can continue to be optimistic through so many years of suffering.

This is still too early to tell.

It's same for all teams. Their low round picks since 2019 haven't really developed yet. Draper wasn't even drafting them at 2019.

2024 draft outside 1st round picks:
- 1 player has played 1 game at NHL, Nikita Prichepov for Colorado

2023 draft outside 1st round picks:
- 1 player has played 1 game at NHL, Gavin Brindley for Columbus

2022 draft outside 1st round picks:
- 10 players have played 1 game at NHL. 9 of them are 2nd rounders. Detroit has Buchelnikov and James on this group. Zero NHL games. Anton Johansson could be the surprise 5th rounder.

etc.

 

[DoMakc]

The whole second round discussion is somewhat bizarre. We complain about 1st rounders having difficult path to a roster place, why should low picks have it easier? Currently they have 2nd rounder from 2019 playing (and doing quite well actually) and 6th rounder having played 20+games. From each of last drafts after 2019 there is a reasonable expectation for at least one pick to be able to contribute (Wallinder, Mazur, Buchelnikov, Augustine, etc.). So what's the issue here? They didn't draft a Bergeron? Was there one?