I hadn't been impressed by what I've seen of him this season until last Thursday's game against Red Deer. I had figured Ryan Getzlaf was a big part of the reason he'd been looking so good this year, but Getzlaf had a bad game and Ladd wound up providing most of the offensive excitement for the Hitmen. He was beating defencemen to the outside, sometimes by muscling his way around them and other times by using his acceleration. A guy that can do both of those things is worth a low first-round pick, and he'd probably fit well with Fedorov.