2006 Draft, Big Gap after top 6

[TeNeIghtY]

Is it me or in this year draft we have really good talents with "star" potentials in the top6 but after Brassard there is a big gap to complete the first round

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[Marc-E-]

You have a good top6, but you have between 8-12 players overall from the top10 who will be good players. For sure, you have a gap, but after the top6 you have: Okposo, Mueller, Sheppard and Frolik. They will be solid NHLer's.

 

[Kaizer]

Is it me or in this year draft we have really good talents with "star" potentials in the top6 but after Brassard there is a big gap to complete the first round

"Top-5 -gap- 6-12 -gap- 13- 40 -gap-" from predraft article of Bob McKenzie

 

[Seph]

You have a good top6, but you have between 8-12 players overall from the top10 who will be good players. For sure, you have a gap, but after the top6 you have: Okposo, Mueller, Sheppard and Frolik. They will be solid NHLer's.

How can you have 12 players from the top 10?

 

[Stealth JD]

Is it me or in this year draft we have really good talents with "star" potentials in the top6 but after Brassard there is a big gap to complete the first round

yes....welcome to 6 months ago....

 

[daynus]

gaps

i have seen some scouts and gms describe it more like this, top 6 gap and the 60th to 8th picks could be as good as the #7, so that makes it fairly deep

 

[J17 Vs Proclamation]

Well obviously im biased, but i think Frolik could be better than most of the guys who went in the top #6.

 

[HFNHL Canadiens]

Brassard is not part of the 1st tier imo

There is the #1-5 gap. 2 - 12/13, then the 13 onwards gap lol

 

[Randall Graves*]

Every year people say there is a drop but there are always guys picked later on that become 'steals'

 

[leafaholix*]

Well obviously im biased, but i think Frolik could be better than most of the guys who went in the top #6.

He could be the best forward in the draft. He's amazing.

 

[J17 Vs Proclamation]

He could be the best forward in the draft. He's amazing.

He has the talent. I admit, he is quite a high risk guy to pick, but IMO if he ever hits his ceiling, he is gonna be a star.

 

[Marc-E-]

How can you have 12 players from the top 10?

It was a average. You have between 8-12 guys who had the possibility to been pick for the Top10. Are you Garth Snow ?

 

[Transported Upstater]

Approximately, there's the elite #1-#5, then the very good #6-#8, then the solid #9-#12 guys, then a big dropoff, IMO.

But it's too early to definitively tell yet.



EDIT: I did not necessarily mean their respective draft order.

IMO, here's the potential prospect rankings by group. Keep in mind I'm really on the fringe with Okposo, I think he could belong in either the "Very Good" or "Excellent" categories.

Elite: Johnson, Staal, Backstrom, Taves, Kessel
Excellent: Brassard, Mueller
Very good: Okposo, Sheppard, Frolik, Little, Tlusty

 

[Blind Gardien]

Is it me or in this year draft we have really good talents with "star" potentials in the top6 but after Brassard there is a big gap to complete the first round

I wouldn't have called it a big gap. There was a reasonably clear "consensus" on the top-6, but that isn't necessarily the same as saying there is a "big gap" between them and the guys who came after. Mueller, Okposo, Little, Frolik... there are bunches of players who weren't in the consensus top-6 who nevertheless are recognized to have the potential to perhaps ultimately be as good as some members of the top-6. I don't think of that as a "big gap".

Somewhere around pick 20 or so, however, there was a bit of a breakdown in pre-draft consensus which resulted in picks 20-80 being pegged as something of a wash, and whether that argues for gaps or for depth is another debate.

Anyway, I think most drafts have a relatively tight consensus group at the top heading in, and while that consensus is occasionally upset on draft day (Price, Wheeler, a few others in recent years) it doesn't really mean there are any bigger or smaller "gaps". It just means somebody got a chance to exercise a personal preference that didn't mesh with the consensus. This year that didn't really happen.

 

[scoutman1]

He has the talent. I admit, he is quite a high risk guy to pick, but IMO if he ever hits his ceiling, he is gonna be a star.

I don't think he is as high risk as people think. Only thing last year that kept him from being a star was confidence, now that he will get a prime role, major minuets and a chance, his confidence will come back...easy as that.

If Erik Johnson was in the same spot as Frolik the same would have happened to him. People will think Frolik is a maga steal, but IMO he wasn't, he always had world class talent, now he will just get to show it.