Jesper Bratt has the 8th most points from the 2016 draft

[VoidCreature]

Feel like this fellow gets no press. Quietly having a breakout year with 24 points in 33 games despite shooting a career-worst 7.5%. Drives play every night, 35th in the NHL in CF% , 52nd in SF%, 97th in xGF%, and 82nd in HDCF% (all min. 100 minutes played).

I'd say he goes in the first round of a redraft pretty easily.

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[Hockey Fanatik]

Feel like this fellow gets no press. Quietly having a breakout year with 24 points in 33 games despite shooting a career-worst 7.5%. Drives play every night, 35th in the NHL in CF% , 52nd in SF%, 97th in xGF%, and 82nd in HDCF% (all min. 100 minutes played).

I'd say he goes in the first round of a redraft pretty easily.

Would seem he is top-10/20 at this point

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Kid is amazing, might be the best kept secret in the league.

 

[jetsforever]

Bratt's having a great year, although that was a pretty shallow draft and many of the players are just starting in the NHL now.

 

[Lateralous]

He more than makes up for taking McLeod in the 1st round

 

[hidek91]

He more than makes up for taking McLeod in the 1st round

Sadly our young players/prospects pool was so weak in 2016 that McLeod pick still hurts.

Bratt is a very smart player who both produces offensively and has responsible two-way game.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

2016 draft is turning into one where the scouting wasn’t quite on it’s game.

Obviously Matthews was the correct #1 pick. But there’s so many guys who were drafted well after where they should have been.

McAvoy and Chychrun weren’t in the top 10. Debrincat, Girard and Kyrou were all second round picks. Adam Fox in the third. Bratt in the sixth.

And then there’s the whiff on Puljujarvi, and even Laine isn’t impressing lately. Just shows that sometimes it’s an absolute crapshoot.

 

[TheKingPin]

That draft was poop

 

[NJ DevLolz]

That draft was poop

Rubstov ouch!!

 

[Blackjack]

I believe he still has more. At times he looks flat out dominant on the ice, just needs more consistency. His rookie year he hit a wall at 40 or 50 games, and every year since (including this one) he's had a noteworthy slump. If he can work that out of his game he can be close to a ppg player.

 

[TheKingPin]

Rubstov ouch!!

Big ouch! But players after him were pretty bad too. At least we got Hart and Allison could be good.

 

[Clam Jensen]

Why can’t all 6th rounders turn out like this:

 

[MitchMurphy]

Bratt is one of the Devils best young forwards.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

That draft was poop

Eh there are some really good players outside of Matthews to come out of that draft. Definitely some disappointments in the top 10-15 though.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Hell of a player. Swap his draft position and McLeod's and everything starts making more sense.

 

[Lateralous]

I believe he still has more. At times he looks flat out dominant on the ice, just needs more consistency. His rookie year he hit a wall at 40 or 50 games, and every year since (including this one) he's had a noteworthy slump. If he can work that out of his game he can be close to a ppg player.

I think you could see significant production from both he and Zacha if they could ever consistently pair the two of them with Hischier as their center

 

[BKarchitect]

Gotta admit I was skeptical of him especially earlier this year when it seemed he was struggling a bit to define his role - his per/min numbers have always been solid as has his smarts but I wondered if he had the toughness to sustain with his small size especially when things started getting tough for him.

But he really responded and I feel like he’s turned a corner where he’s now a legitimate top 6 guy with incredible hockey IQ.

 

[Better Call Sal]

Hell of a player. Swap his draft position and McLeod's and everything starts making more sense.

Thats what many of our fans have done in our heads.

The good news is that McLeod is starting to show signs of promise. Don’t think he will ever amount to his first round draft status but the good news is that with Hischier and Hughes, he doesn’t have to be.

As for Bratt, his talent is undeniable. His edge work is some of the best I’ve ever seen.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Thats what many of our fans have done in our heads.

The good news is that McLeod is starting to show signs of promise. Don’t think he will ever amount to his first round draft status but the good news is that with Hischier and Hughes, he doesn’t have to be.

As for Bratt, his talent is undeniable. His edge work is some of the best I’ve ever seen.

Pretending that the Penguins drafted Olli Määttä or Matt Murray with the 2012 8th overall pick is the only thing keeping me from blowing a gasket every time I see the name Pouliot or Shero . Teddy Blueger now carries on the tradition.

Still plenty of time for McLeod to round into a solid player, just very hard to see him living up to where he was drafted. At least the Devils got a NHL player there and not, like, Tyler Biggs not even being good enough for the AHL.

 

[schnapshot]

Such an entertaining player to watch. Been waiting for his breakout for a while.

 

[voxel]

2016 draft is turning into one where the scouting wasn’t quite on it’s game.

Obviously Matthews was the correct #1 pick. But there’s so many guys who were drafted well after where they should have been.

McAvoy and Chychrun weren’t in the top 10. Debrincat, Girard and Kyrou were all second round picks. Adam Fox in the third. Bratt in the sixth.

And then there’s the whiff on Puljujarvi, and even Laine isn’t impressing lately. Just shows that sometimes it’s an absolute crapshoot.

Even with better scouting and correct draft order the entire 2016 draft now appears to be very weak. The entire bottom half of the first is all near busts. There’s Adam Fox and Debrincat later in the draft but all drafts have these late hits.

And 2017 is stronger than expected.

 

[tarheelhockey]

2016 draft is turning into one where the scouting wasn’t quite on it’s game.

Obviously Matthews was the correct #1 pick. But there’s so many guys who were drafted well after where they should have been.

McAvoy and Chychrun weren’t in the top 10. Debrincat, Girard and Kyrou were all second round picks. Adam Fox in the third. Bratt in the sixth.

And then there’s the whiff on Puljujarvi, and even Laine isn’t impressing lately. Just shows that sometimes it’s an absolute crapshoot.

Maybe not so much that it’s a crapshoot, but that organizational development and the players’ personal decision-making has more of an impact on career results than how the players compare on draft day.

 

[93LEAFS]

2016 draft is turning into one where the scouting wasn’t quite on it’s game.

Obviously Matthews was the correct #1 pick. But there’s so many guys who were drafted well after where they should have been.

McAvoy and Chychrun weren’t in the top 10. Debrincat, Girard and Kyrou were all second round picks. Adam Fox in the third. Bratt in the sixth.

And then there’s the whiff on Puljujarvi, and even Laine isn’t impressing lately. Just shows that sometimes it’s an absolute crapshoot.

Most drafts are going to have misses. Most of the guys who were ranked as the clear top 5 are still top 5 today (Matthews, Laine, PLD, Tkachuk), and none of those 4 slip out of the top 10 yet.

I mean, 2015 is going to go down as an all-time great draft, and 2 of the top 5 (Hanifin and Strome) picks in that draft probably don't do top 10 today.

 

[PG Canuck]

Is it crazy for me to say I like Bratt more than Hughes?

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Most drafts are going to have misses. Most of the guys who were ranked as the clear top 5 are still top 5 today (Matthews, Laine, PLD, Tkachuk), and none of those 4 slip out of the top 10 yet.

I mean, 2015 is going to go down as an all-time great draft, and 2 of the top 5 (Hanifin and Strome) picks in that draft probably don't do top 10 today.

And 3 of the top 6 (Zacha)