These are exciting times! We've boasted about our amazing scouting abilities for a while now and we finally get to see If there is any truth to that. Zibanejad and Stone are poised to make an impact with the big club, with Pageau, Dzingel, Puempel, and others raising eyebrows in Bingo. I can't wait to see how the 2014/2015 season unfolds!
No, we already know about that. It's just that the 2011-2014 drafts are still too recent to judge...
2008 Entry 15 1 Erik Karlsson --> worth a top-3 pick that year (voted #3 in my polls), and a 1st overall most years
2008 Entry 42 2 Patrick Wiercioch --> worth a late 1st (voted #29 in my polls), still has a lot of room to grow
2008 Entry 79 3 Zack Smith --> worth an early/mid 2nd (about to be voted)
2008 Entry 119 4 Derek Grant --> worth a late 2nd/early 3rd, still has a lot of room to grow
2008 Entry 139 5 Mark Borowiecki --> worth a late 2nd/early 3rd, still has a lot of room to grow
2009 Entry 9 1 Jared Cowen --> voted 24th overall in my re-do draft polls, but had a down year for several reasons. I'm confident his stock will rise again
2009 Entry 39 2 Jakob Silfverberg --> voted 21th overall in my re-do draft polls
2009 Entry 46 2 Robin Lehner --> voted 14th overall in my re-do draft polls, could end up fairly higher
2009 Entry 100 4 Chris Wideman --> a bit too early to tell, will most certainly end up as a bottom-pair journeymen D-man
2009 Entry 130 5 Mike Hoffman --> a bit too early to tell, probably worth a late 2nd at the moment, but his stock could rise, starting this season
2009 Entry 191 7 Michael Sdao --> a bit too early to tell, could end up a bottom-pair journeymen D-man
2010 draft : didn't have many picks, ended up trading our 1st for Rundblad, then max his prospect value, then trade him for Turris
2010 Entry 178 6 Mark Stone --> looking good?
* Note that we don't particulary draft high (Cowen highest on that list at 9th, and Karlsson original pick was a 18th OA), so it makes even better.
