Some tried to walk that line with various degrees of success while others threw their derision directly at the kid.
The reason I 'derided' Chevy/Hillier for the pick/trade was because the kid was not good enough to justify it. Therefore it is impossible to be that down on the pick without also being down on Stanley. Nothing personal though. Just simply that he was not a good enough player to be picked that high - or even close. He was not a good enough player to be picked by the Jets because the Jets did not have a 3rd rd pick and that was the earliest he should have gone.
Taken in the 3rd or 4th rd, he would be an interesting project pick. A good gamble since little would have been risked.
If he had been born a year earlier and drafted by Chicago in the 4th rd would you have been happy with Dano + him instead of a 1st in return for Ladd? And the 4th is the earliest he would have gone in that '15 draft with the quality and depth that it had.
Maybe that is the wrong way to put that question because, by then a lot of people would have taken a bag of old pucks for Ladd. If you were presented with the choice of Dano + 1st, or Dano plus Hawks 4th rd pick from the year before, which would you take?