Going to go against the grain here and say Backes. The 2015 draft is obviously the fan favorite, but we have no idea what would have happened if we took the guys everyone says we should have. No idea how they would have developed in Boston, how they would have been used or how the team would look because its a rabbit hole of endless possibilities and what-if's.
So I'm going with Backes because his $6 million tied up a good part of our cap space while getting 3rd/4th line production (when healthy) out of him. That $6 million could have been used in better ways to improve the team, but it also wasn't an easy contract to move. IMO Kase was worth Axel + 2nd but with ANH taking Backes it bumped the 2nd to a 1st for this year. This is considered to be a pretty solid draft and not having a 1st rounder hurts.
With that I'm going to step out of this thread because in reality its just going to turn into an extension of the 2015 Draft Thread