Plenty? I have no problem with drafting a goalie in the 2nd round, I specifically said I was wary of 1st round selections. Hellebuyck -5th, Lehner -2nd, Anderson - 7th, Binnington -3rd, Gibson - 2nd, Jarry -4th, Bishop -3rd, Kuemper -6th, Holtby-4th, Shesterkin-4th, Bobrovsky-FA, Lundqvist-7th, Renne -8th.
I’m not saying you can’t get great goalies in the 1st round: Vasilevskiy, Price, Rask, Fleury, Samsonov. It’s just that more of the current starters come from outside the 1st round than skaters.
With top offensive forwards, they are mainly 1st rounders, often early ones. Some aren’t: Kucherov -2nd, Marchand -3rd, Panarin -FA, Aho -2nd, Bergeron-2nd. It’s a pretty small group though.
If we were stacked with talent it would make more sense, I think Samsonov was a perfect pick for the Caps. I just don’t believe we should use either of our two highest 1st rounders on a goalie, especially since Askarov is having a somewhat shaky draft year after all the hype.