Nice to not feel as outraged as I did in march. The twin hammer blows of losing what seemed like a lock top 3-5 pick in February, with pawning off Forsberg for scrap was somewhat mitigated w/the team at least not finishing mid first round. Now looking at the caps draft, it's actually ideal from my point of view.
1st round
Didn't take a fast faller like last year, but did take a guy who was very, very, very well thought of before he didn't get any minutes this past year. Loads of potential.
2nd round:
Bowey-maxed out value w/the best player available at pick.
Sanford: While perhaps rated a bit lower than the slot, was viewed by most as a guy with massive and legit long term upside. My kind of pick.
5th round:
Heinrich:
Landed a D that it sounds like should have gone a full 30-45 slots earlier, good value, and the scouting report sounds good.
6th round
Pinho:
Decent relative value, expected to go a bit higher than when we got him.
7th rounder:
Lewington
Sounds like a massive, just massive steal, basically a 2nd/3rd round caliber prospect thieved in the 7th round. Tremendous. Love the write ups.
All things considered, especially the 23 slot, I felt like we got massive slot value with 3 picks, tremendous upside and/or value with the Burankovsky/Sandford/Lewington picks, and didn't really make reaches for "what?!?!?" picks, or ho hum, adequate picks. It feels like we mixed prospects that were rated far higher than where we landed them, with prospects that housed tremendous long term upside/with question marks.
That's my kind of draft. Who knows if any of this turns out, but at least it was a good draft considering what was done, at slot, with each pick. I'm happy with it.