1st round winners and losers

[Sasso09]

Winners

• Vancouver
• NYR
• SJS
• Chicago
• Edmonton

Losers

• Philly
• NYI
• Ottawa
• Colorado
• St. Louis

This must be a joke

 

[Critical13]

This must be a joke

Quote me in 3 years.

 

[Sasso09]

Surprised so many people have rangers as losers, miller is a great pick

Kravtsov at 9 was a very risky reach, especially with Wahlstrom on the board

 

[Laphroaig]

The biggest winners relative to their draft position are Detroit and the Islanders.

Montreal, Ottawa and Arizona look like the biggest losers to me.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Winners: Isles, Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo

Losers: Rangers

 

[lighthouses]

Detroit
Islanders
Sabres
Hurricanes

 

[Classicnamesup]

These threads are always fun to look back on.

2012

Nail Yakupov

“OMG, generational draft for Oilers AINEC. They are the clear winner here”

2018

HF thread:

“Is Yakupov the worst 1st overall pick in history?”

These types of posts inspired me to go look at some of these threads from years back. It's really interesting to revisit it in retrospect. So these threads aren't useless at all, they are a great snapshot of opinions now that are interesting to view later. Fans so full of optimism and homerism and a few years from now some of them will be crushed to see their old post.