I think people are underestimating the willingness of other GMs to make side deals to not take certain players and to take certain players after the way the Vegas draft went Other GMs know the got worked over and werent willing to make the same mistake twice
Ovie, Grandlund, Landeskog and Dougie Hamilton were all UFA IIRC they chose not to sign here, So most of that talent would of wanted to be apart of a brand new franchise (lol at thinking we could of signed Ovie) So if you take those names out right off the bat there isnt a lot there
Tank was easily the biggest miss imo, His offensive production could of really helped us
*I dont even see who we drafted from AZ
*I would of rather had Taylor Hall over Lauzon, Krejci isnt even playing in the NHL
*I dont understand the Will Borgen pick
*Giordano was the right pick imo
*Geekie and Nino is debatable iirc Ninos contract (5.something million) along with being a UFA soon may of been the determining factor
*I dont even notice the person we picked on the Blackhawks
*Donskoi isnt listed on the Avs but would of rather had Saad, Landeskog choose not to sign here
*CBJ dont even remember who we picked
*Stars Oleksiak was probably the right pick
*DET I dont even remember
*Larsson good pick
*Driedger was a decent pick more of a analytics pick iirc Dont know much about Gudas tbh
*Dont know much about the Kings pick (Quick wasnt an option as we signed Gru)
*Soucy easily the right pick
*Not really a fan of either the Fluery brothers picks So probably would of went with Denault
*Probably would of went with Duchene too but 5 years left at like 6 million no thanks probably a cap pick Jarnkrok was pretty bad for us was in the box all the time iirc
*Devils I dont even remembr who we picked but again goalie wasnt an option because of the Gru signing
*Eberle probably the right pick but will probably be gone next year
*Blackwell has been pretty unnoticeable this year and I dont really know who else I would of picked
*Joey Daccord is the AHL goalie, Probably didnt go with dadonov because of the cap hit
*Dont even remember who we picked from Phily
*Tanev was the right pick as was playing pretty well for us before his season ending knee injury
*Hindsight I would of rather had Middleton but again that list is rough and I dont remember who we picked
*Would of rather of had Tank but Dunn isnt bad at all and Jaden Schwartz is already on the Kraken hes just hurt again and was playing pretty well for us
*TB couldnt of had a wrong pick but I'll take the center and Gourde has been a great for us this year
*Couldnt of gone wrong with Hyman, Kerfoot, Or McCan
*Dont even remember who we picked from the Canucks
*We took Vitek but traded him right after for a 2nd? IIRC Ovie know way in hell he would of signed here
*Mason Appleton I dont really have any opinion probably a contract pick and again has been pretty unnoticeable