Finally got to catch up.....once again Im left scratching my head on day 2. Last year they had all those top 100 picks and pissed them all away on trades and moving up...they grabbed good players with Buium and Mazer but definitely left some good players on the board, who will be NHLers and who were widely recognized as good prospects.
Now, this year, they had all those 4th round picks and that early 5th, and didnt move at all....when everyone basically said that the meat of this draft was between 25-65. Im pretty happy with Buchelnikov, and James definitely seems like the type of guy our scouts like to take in the 2nd or 3rd...but man, it would have been cool to turn all those extra picks into a Sykora or Lutz or Rohrer or Hamara or Persson. Seems like the strategy in this weak draft was to throw as many darts a possible....which turned out great in 2017.
Oh well, still extremely pumped about Kasper and Buchelnikov could be really exciting if hes allowed to ever leave Russia...