Poll: The 2018 Draft

[Run the Jewels]

If you could redo the 2018 first round draft pick, which player would you pick?

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[Realgud]

I mean... that's not gonna be close

 

[SuperScript29]

Imagine Seider and Hughes as our current top-pairing. Way to go Kenny...

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

this has been hashed out a million times already

 

[golffuul]

Zadina...if we had drafted Hughes, we wouldn't have drafted Seider

 

[Bench]

Zadina...if we had drafted Hughes, we wouldn't have drafted Seider

 

[Reddwit]

Zadina...if we had drafted Hughes, we wouldn't have drafted Seider

I don’t really think that’s true. Yzerman obviously liked Seider a lot. And it’s not like Seider stopped the Wings from taking Edvinsson.

 

[Pavels Dog]

why even make this poll lol.

better poll is Zadina/Bouchard since the rumors were that he was gonna be the pick if they went D.

 

[DoMakc]

I'm confused by the poll's options, expected to see Hossa and Franzen, please adjust

 

[SpookyTsuki]

I don’t really think that’s true. Yzerman obviously liked Seider a lot. And it’s not like Seider stopped the Wings from taking Edvinsson.

But if we had hughes and Seider we wouldn’t have edvinsson

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

I would have gone with Dobson or Bouchard on draft day to be honest. But Hughes over Zadina.

 

[jkutswings]

I would have gone with Dobson or Bouchard on draft day to be honest. But Hughes over Zadina.

I was a Dobson fan as well. Hoping against hope that Yzerman can scam him from the Islanders as part of a Bertuzzi deal.

 

[ThankGord]

Groundbreaking stuff here

 

[HoweFan]

Zadina...if we had drafted Hughes, we wouldn't have drafted Seider

It couldn’t be said any better. Wait till Elmer gets here and see how Hughes does defending him. Zadina will get better

 

[TatarTangle]

Imagine Seider and Hughes as our current top-pairing. Way to go Kenny...

You’d want Hughes with someone like Staal because, well, you saw Hughes continually blow coverage, get burned, take bad pinches, etc, against an okayish Detroit team. I have Hulu + and isn’t my first Vancouver game.

Slight lean to Hughes for the PP production alone. But I’m still in the camp that their careers for their respective positions will be somewhat similar when all is said and done. I get why people would want Hughes, just don’t put him out there if the game is on the line.

 

[RabidBadger]

I would have gone with Dobson or Bouchard on draft day to be honest. But Hughes over Zadina.

Dobson was my dude as well. Basically, "yeah, what Ogee said".

 

[HisNoodliness]

On draft day I would have taken Zadina, while being super tempted by Boqvist. Now I'd take Hughes of course. I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here though, Hughes has turned out better. Everyone knows that.

I'm not even sure that necessarily makes Zadina the wrong pick based on the information at the time of the draft. If you can point out something systemic for the reasons we identified him as a more promising player than he was or that we undervalued Hughes for some reason, then you can form an argument for how we should change our scouting tactics in the future.

I can do this with Rasmussen. He was clearly buoyed in Juniors by his power play production and his size advantage. Thus when scouting a player if the majority of their production is coming on the power play from within a few feet of the net and they're three inches taller than just about anyone in their draft, I'll tell you that their production is a lot less impressive than it seems and we should really look at the skills before we take them. Then with Ras, you'd have seen he wasn't a great skater, wasn't a great passer and wasn't a great shooter. These were all criticisms we had before the draft.

Based on draft day information, what did we miss with Zadina? His goals being too dependent on shot volume and too concentrated in the circles? Maybe him not having great speed for his size?

If you want to argue we should have taken Hughes, that's only interesting if you can give reasons why that aren't dependent on us being five years in the future. Then the next time when we're picking between a player with Zadina's profile, and one with Hughes, we can make the right choice. As things stand today, I'm pretty sure I'd end up taking the guy with Zadina's profile because I can't identify anything wrong with the choice besides the result.

 

[MBH]

I would have gone with Dobson or Bouchard on draft day to be honest. But Hughes over Zadina.

My pick was Dobson.
But any of the Big 4 on the board (Dobson, Bouchard, Boqvist, Hughes) would have been better than a winger.

 

[Retire91]

I was really pissed with the state of the team at the time that we took a winger but we were also taking no lube lottery thrusts at that time we should have had a shot at Tkachuk too So we were just taking it from all ends. Terrible GM, terrible hockey, terrible contracts, terrible drafts. Memorable for all the wrong reasons

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

I wanted Hughes solely because Michigan defenseman. But given him and Zadina there, I probably go Zadina just like the Wings do. I would have figured I was blinded by the maize and blue.

 

[Oddbob]

What does this thread have to do with Franzen/Hossa?

 

[SoupNazi]

Lopsided.