I mean everything is possible with this management at the moment. thats the scary part! Them drafting Kotkaniemi and going hard on centers at the draft is one of the only thing im happy about.
But you also have to think about how would Kotkaniemi performed in the CHL? we will never know. Once again, not a Knock on Zadina but look at his draft-1 year he played against men for 25 Match in the czech league, only 2 points... Kotkaniemi had 29 in 57 in his draft year, but he's draft year is only 3 month older than Zadina's Draft-1! it's realy tough to gauge! in a perfect world every drafted players play in the same league, you would see alot less "steals". Zadina was the "sexiest goal scoring pick" Kotkaniemi was the pick with higher risk but could return the best reward! thats how i see it. Maybe Kotkaniemi won't adapt to NA ice, wich zadina did with ease in his style of game! Time will tell, look at our last years first round pick Ryan Poehling, nothing is sure right now, but at the camp he was a completely different player than last year, he was a men amongs kids and he was FAR from being the youngest.