Best player you've drafted so far?

[How Ya Drouin]

I drafted a 4 and a half star two way centre who is 82 in this season after the draft.

Centering my 2nd line, has something like 17 points in 20 games

 

[NHL Dude 120]

2015 draft

Goalie surma 4.5 green stars 70ovr at 19

I know he's usually a top 5 pick but he's worth trading a bucket load for

Same for me, guy is a beast 2nd AHL season won the Jack A. Butterfield Trophy, Rookie and sophmore years in the NHL he won over 35+ games. He also won the conn smythe twice , (don't remember the season) but he had a 15-5 record.

 

[Baby Ryan]

I also drafted a goalie named Brylin. Don't remember his drafting position, maybe top 10?
A year after I drafted him, guy sported an 88 overall and bumps up and down from 88-90

 

[MattDolton]

1st Overall pick i took an Enforcer, cant remember his name, was game generated, 4.5 stars, D-man, 6'5, 230ish, 87 overall with all 87's and 88's in skating, puck skills all in the 80's with excellent shot powers, and naturally 99's across the board on his defense, usually put up 20-30 points with 200+ PIMS, drafted him in 2017 i believe, id check it but i saved over it quite awhile ago.

 

[jhoops89]

In the 2017 draft New Jersey drafted a 5 green star DFD named Bradley Laich with the 1st overall pick. Unfortunately I'm the GM of Florida haha

 

[ScoutAssignment]

Ekblad, McDavid are the best choices in the first few drafts, after the update kucherov is 4.5G and hits 88 two years in.. But. Drouin's shot is 99 99 99 99 lol with any playmaker the guy scores 50 a year after year 2 and if you don't get him off TB him and stamkos will both score 40/50+ a year. Also there's a goalie Weinhandle Swedish kid 6'5 gets to high 80's and Stasiak in the later years maybe 2020 but he's sick too 6'6 and 4.5 pot

 

[ScoutAssignment]

Just tried to take a picture for proof but I just started a new gm mode and in 2018 Grant Gormley is 5 star yellow he's playing with two 90's but had back to back 47 goal seasons and totaled 90 as a rookie and 119 in his sophomore year I played the last game of the season to try and win the rocket and got him 3pts . After two seasons he's 92 OVR

 

[The Nuge]

Got a 4.5 green star Russian offensive dman named Ivan Zinovjev. He turned into a 90 overall at 22 years old. I've also got a 4.5 star, 6'7, 254 lbs powerforward named Radek Kohn who is 85 overall the year after I drafted him. I've also got a couple insanely good goalies, but I didn't draft them (for some reason, the computer lets goalie prospects walk, and I've signed 3 goalies under 22 years old that had 4 star potential or better)


Not sure if someone mentioned it, but draft Julius Honka in 2014. I got him in the 3rd round, and he's 4.5 red stars. He ends up mid 80's, but he gets there very quickly, and that's damn good for a 3rd rounder.

 

[l Landeskog l]

In the 2015 draft I got second overall pick. Instead of going for McDavid (who ended up going third)' I got a TWD player called Nicolas Meloche. Sent him down to the minors for a year or two. First year up at age 20, he's 88 overall with 5 stars yellow still.

 

[izzy]

What is with all these 5 star, 6'6-6'8 DFD?

As well as Goalies.

EVERY 5 star player I see is a goalie or a DFD.

 

[Jonesey]

I have everyone beat..

In this past offseason in the Bluth Company league.

#1 Overall taken by me.. Left Wing 88 Overall 5 Yellow Stars.. Noah Marquardt.

this season's stats are GP: 59 G: 14 A: 31 P: 45 +19 Faceoffs: 53% Hits: 97

 

[CowbellConray]

New Jersey Drafted Donald Komisarek 1st Overall in 2019 when the trade deadline before they offered me their pick for Sam Reinhart. I was making a push and Sam was doing well on my 2nd line so I rejected the trade.

After the draft and into preseason I look at Reinhart who had just jumped to an 87 with GREAT all around ability. Was going to center my first line with Daved Backes and Michelle Dal Colle.

Then I got the trade offer:

To New Jersey:
Sam Reinhart
1st in 2020
3.5 Star Prospect

To Buffalo:
Donald Komisarek

Komisarek out of the draft was 5 star yellow 87 Overall

But even better he naturally played LW which I needed
He is 6'5 240 Sniper with almost 5 stars in every category.

Reinhart was just signed to a great deal (4X5) but I had to make the trade.

I played it off as a Lindros situation so I could get my guy haha

First year in the league on my top line he scores 67 in 76.

After one year he jump to a 91.

Currently, after 22 games, he has 27 points.

 

[The Nuge]

What is with all these 5 star, 6'6-6'8 DFD?

As well as Goalies.

EVERY 5 star player I see is a goalie or a DFD.

I'm in 2021-2022, and have yet to see a single 5 star player

 

[NYR89]

William Nylander is tearing it up in year three for me in the AHL. I will most likely make the jump with him in year 4. I drafted him in the first season around 20ish overall.

 

[HOUSUTON]

2020 draft 1st pick Louis Carle
1st year 82ovr -> Calder trophy
2nd year 89ovr -> Art Ross (impressive in his 2nd year)
5-6 Art Ross trophies overall until gm game ended

 

[Mac n Gs]

Are any of Alex Tuch, Dylan Larkin, or other young US forwards in the game for the 2014 draft?

 

[Pirate King Luffy]

My best player that I drafted was a a guy from Kazakhstan He was a 78 out of the draft and when I got to the preseason he was an 82. Played him on the 2nd line, and he was doing so good he finished the season at an 88. Hasn't gone up since, but he is only 23 years old at 4.5 gold.

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

60 games into the 15-16 season, McDavid has 46 goals and 23 assists and has already jumped from 58 OVR-65 OVR.

Before that it was Matt Rupert. Kids first season he played 55 games and had 40 goals and 26 assists, slight decline in his second season, though not bad for a 3 star player.

 

[glxss]

60 games into the 15-16 season, McDavid has 46 goals and 23 assists and has already jumped from 58 OVR-65 OVR.

Before that it was Matt Rupert. Kids first season he played 55 games and had 40 goals and 26 assists, slight decline in his second season, though not bad for a 3 star player.

How

 

[VilleLeinosCaddie]

Tyson Baillie
Eventually he had a 99 wrist shot acccuracy and 99 wrist shot power. Putting him on the same line as Sam Reinhart got him 75 goals in a season mostly simulated.

 

[SabreOil]

1st overall 2021-Sergei Grucinev 89 rated TWF 6'4 218lbs centre. 5 stars green

17 games - 9 goals - 11 assists. So far.

The strange thing about him is that he is Russian and black. I thought that was cool to have the 2nd black superstar(behind p.k subban that is.)

Also in NHL 13, I didn't draft him Anaheim did, Rodney Von Arx
Polish 6'3 sniper that didn't have a high rating to start his career but he hit 50 goals almost every single year of his nhl career(when he was in his late 30's he stopped producing pretty fast). He hit 70 a few times as well.

I eventually traded for him and he retired 18 goals under 1000.

 

[Daevion]

Boom: Tyson Baillie, drafted 2014, started with 62 and 4,5 yellow, developed to 74 at the beginning of 2015/16 (center in line 4 of the farmteam) then to 84 at the beginning of 2016/17 (first line center with JVR and Kessel)

Boom?: Ken Appleby, drafted 2015 with 52 and 5 star yellow

 

[GruntLife]

I wish more players in the draft were closer to NHL ready. I rarely get top 5 draft picks but after the 3rd year the people do get draft arent nhl ready until they are 25-27. Its crazy.

I also noticed it is less trade vaule to let a team draft your player then instantly trade for him. Two real examples of this working out.

I was trying to do a GM with the Rangers. 4 Years in needed someone to replace hank when he retired. That year a russan goal tender was predicted to go top 5 with 4.5 green stars. I spent the entire year scouting him. Couldnt afford to trade for a top 5 pick. Some other team picks him and i check him out when Free Agency started. His trade value was half of what the top 5 pick would have been and he was actually only 4 yellow stars with a 55 over all. Would have been a huge waste and saved me a ton of time.

Doing another GM Mode with the Coyatees. Doing a rebuild. I waited till Free Agency and Trade for Sam Reinhert (sp) center play maker and Adam Earnie (sp) OFD player for what it would have cost me to get a first pick. So i got the number 1 over all and the number 3 over all for what it would have been just to get one on draft day.

It's a headache, not to mention time consuming, as it takes a few days...

But I wait until the trade deadline passes, allow EA to update the rosters to reflect the transactions with players and picks, then buy the game.

Once I do that, I pull up NHL.com's and other NHL mock drafts for 2014, 2015, etc. Also look at the mid-season rankings for all the draft eligible prospects, and proceed to edit them to reflect their ranking.

So, for example, Sam Reinhart is a mid 60, and is projected to be a top 3 pick in the up coming draft which generally means it's a safe assumption that he makes an NHL roster. I'll bump him up to mid to high 70's, so that whoever picks him in the NHL 14 draft will put him either on their roster, leave him in the CHL, and then he'll be NHL ready by 2015 season.

I'll do this for all the top prospects, along with editing their potential, so that you have more 20-22 year olds on NHL rosters instead of sitting in the CHL/AHL.

Also create all the USHL players that aren't on the rosters so that they can be drafted, along with over sea players, to give the drafts much more depth.

For a test run I had Buffalo and drafted Reinhart and McDavid in back to back drafts. Reinhart was a 77 his rookie season and went up to an 82. McDavid, considering the extreme hype, I bumped him up to an 84 to mirror Nathan MacKinnon's rookie rating based on NHL production. So I had an 82 and 84 by season 2.

 

[plaaplaa72]

EDIT: Nvm.

 

[Qualls22]

I can say I have never seen a full blown 5 star player red, yellow, or even yet green! That's just regular GM mode on 360 and I'm on year 2023 although I do have a 4 1/2 green star defenseman and tons of other players that are 4 1/2 stars that's yellow and high 80's and one that's a sniper that's 23 that's 92 overall.