One Winged Angel
You Can't Escape
I actually think that Sather's 1st round draft record from 2005-on is pretty good.
Staal, Del Zotto, Kreider, McIlrath, Miller, Skjei are all, or look to be, solid NHLers, with McIlrath being the highest pick in the group. Jury is still out on Skjei and McIlrath, but by indications, all of them are top-6 F or top-4 D.
Sanguinetti is the only bust, and of course Cherepanov was tragic. The problem hasn't been the quality of drafting in the 1st round. It's been drafting in the first round at all.
Cherepanov is the one that hurts the most. We would have an in-prime superstar scorer that would have probably helped us not trade for Nash.