Heaton
Moderator
Uhm tons of people hate/hated the pick. Their words.
You said 'outright hate towards him', that's your words. But I agree many people hate the pick.
Bjugstad seems like a lazy comparison, but even a slightly better Bjugstad is a very good player.
Lazy, why? Both players are big forwards who were originally projected to play center and were taken in the 1st round, granted Bjugstad was taken 19th overall. Rasmussen was taken much earlier than many predicted. Bjugstad right now is a very good player and a player slightly better than him would be great. But like I said, how he's playing right now (his regular season + playoffs) isn't super exciting. Nothing wrong with that, we have many more seasons of high draft picks to come.