2011: Ryan Murphy was the BPA at #12. He was highly touted. It was mistake after all but the draft was weak. After Murphy you have Baertschi, Oleksiak, Miller, Armia, Beaulieau, McNeill, Klefbom, Connor Murphy, Noesen, Biggs, Morrow, Puempel, Danault, Percy, Namestnikov, Phillips, Jensen, Rakell. We miss on JT Miller, Klefbom and Rakell but so did a lot of teams.
2012: The day that we trade for Jordan Staal. There was rumours we are very high on Grigorenko. Forsberg would be special but the first round wasn't specticular at all. Pens take with #8 Pouliot, then you have in order Trouba, Koekkoek, Forsberg, Grigorenko, Faksa, Girgensons, Ceci, Wilson, Hertl, Teravainen, Vasilevskiy, Laughton, Maatta, Jankowski, Matheson, Subban, Schmaltz, Gaunce, Samuelsson, Skjei, Mattheau, Pearsson. We miss on Trouba/Forsberg/Hertl and Vasilevskiy but the first round wasn't anything that good. The biggest question is how exactly PDG and McGinn were second rounders? Not that we miss on something truly special at all, it was just weak draft. We did take Slavin, it was huge steal.
2013: Lindholm probably was BPA at #5 or it was between him and Monahan? Nurse was taken with #7, Risto with #8. Horvat (#9) is big success but after that is full with meh players. Nichushkin, Morin, Domi, Morrissey (big reach at the time), Wennberg, Pulock, Zadorov, Lazar, Mueller, Rychel, Mantha, Gauthier, Poirier, Burakovsky, Shinkaruk, McCarron, Theodore, Dano, Klimchuk, Dickinson, Hartman. Pesce makes this draft a win but nothing comes from Ganly and Pedersen.
2014: Fleury was very good for Red Deer but D always take few years to develop. We pass on Ehlers (#9 pick) and Nylander (#8 pick). After that it was meh - Ritchie, Fiala, Perlini, Vrana, Honka, Larkin, Milano, Sanheim, Tuch, DeAngelo, Schmaltz, Fabbri, Kapanen, Bleackley, McCann, Pastrnak, Scherbak, Goldobin, Ho-Sang, Kempe. Somehow we got some role players from that draft - Wallmark who was supposed to be good scorer, Foegele and Bishop. A lot of 4th liners. Larkin is crazy good but he wasn't rated that high.
2015: Hanifin. Rumored to be top 3 pick. We pass on Provorov and Werenski. Long term i still believe than Hanifin will be the best of the bunch. Meier is special, Rantanen is elite. We steal Aho. Booth was crazy good in Q. Roy and Cotton were 'steals' according the industry.
2016: Kuokk supposed to be next Aho, good value pick. But Bean was meh choice, especially after Slavin/Pesce success and after Murphy fiasco. We take Fleury and Hanifin in last few drafts. Not to mention Bean was taken before McAvoy and Chychryn. Not sure there's good forward taken after Bean. Maybe Kunin? Meh picks on Elenyuik, Filipe, Helvig and Zimmer.
2017 while it's very early was good for me. Necas will take time to develop but at worst he would be ideal #2 center. Mattheos is crazy underrated, Martin is solid as rock. Not sure about Luostarinen but maybe he will be good third liner. Geekie could be steal, not sure. He seems to be adequate so far.
2018: meh but we take a franchise forward. Sellgren could be steal. He's not flashy but very solid. Overrager or not, if you get solid #4/5 dman as a 6th round pick, it's success.