Battle of 1st round picks! Pick a trio

[Northern Avs Fan]

Which Centre, Wing, Defence combination would you rather build around?

Byfield, Lafreniere, and Drysdale

or

Hischier, Yamamoto, and Makar

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[OKR]

Went with Byfield, Laf and Drysdale, purely on potential basis tho

Laf>Hisch
Byfield>Yamamoto
Drysdale=Makar

 

[DomBarr]

one of those players is not like the others and it means the undrafted trio wins

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Lopsided.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

one of those players is not like the others and it means the undrafted trio wins

Which guy don’t you like?

 

[McJesusSaves97]

I am actually surprised the drafted group has 3 votes

 

[DomBarr]

its not that i don't like Yamamoto but he was not regarded as a top 3 talent in his draft year. So you have a guy drafted 1st OA, and 4th OA, and 3 projected to go 1st, 2nd and 3rd OA and then you have Yamamoto drafted 22nd OA..

 

[Merrrlin]

Makar holds back the drafted group.


: )

 

[amnesiac]

Which guy don’t you like?

Drysdale is the bigger ? fo rme

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

its not that i don't like Yamamoto but he was not regarded as a top 3 talent in his draft year. So you have a guy drafted 1st OA, and 4th OA, and 3 projected to go 1st, 2nd and 3rd OA and then you have Yamamoto drafted 22nd OA..

Maybe I like Yamamoto more than most. He looked every bit a second line player in his first stint in the league and I saw top line winger upside.

 

[Gurglesons]

I take the second one because they’ve all seemingly proved they are NHLers.

 

[Ctrain2k]

its not that i don't like Yamamoto but he was not regarded as a top 3 talent in his draft year. So you have a guy drafted 1st OA, and 4th OA, and 3 projected to go 1st, 2nd and 3rd OA and then you have Yamamoto drafted 22nd OA..

He’s an NHL player now, draft position means nothing. I know it’s not the same thing but you wouldn’t say that about Pastrnak who was drafted 25th.

 

[93LEAFS]

I'd take Laf/Byfield over Hischier/Yamamoto by a significantly bigger margin than I would Makar over Drysdale, currently and at their respective draft dates.

Switch Yamamoto for Pettersson, and Drysdale for Sanderson (who I would take over Drysdale) and it becomes a more interesting debate (and I'd probably side with 2017 in that example.

 

[93LEAFS]

He’s an NHL player now, draft position means nothing. I know it’s not the same thing but you wouldn’t say that about Pastrnak who was drafted 25th.

Yamamoto's argument exists off of 410 minutes this season at 5v5 where he shot 17% individually, and his overall line had a shooting percentage of 12.45%. Hard to put too much weight into that. Whereas Pastrnak has 3 proven high-end seasons. Those numbers could easily be creating a mirage. Its not like he tore up the AHL in his 50 or so games there.

 

[DomBarr]

He’s an NHL player now, draft position means nothing. I know it’s not the same thing but you wouldn’t say that about Pastrnak who was drafted 25th.

While Yamamoto had a great 27 games in the NHL in his D+3 season that doesn't put him into the same conversation as Makar, Hirschier, Byfield, Lafreniere, and Drysdale

 

[Tralfamadore]

Does Drysdale have the same kind of upside as Makar? Laf alone makes this lopsided though.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

I'd take Laf/Byfield over Hischier/Yamamoto by a significantly bigger margin than I would Makar over Drysdale, currently and at their respective draft dates.

Switch Yamamoto for Pettersson, and Drysdale for Sanderson (who I would take over Drysdale) and it becomes a more interesting debate (and I'd probably side with 2017 in that example.

I thought about putting Petterson in, but I thought that would tilt it pretty heavily the other way.

 

[spiny norman]

Lopsided result.