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The BIGGEST Draft Mistake In NHL History?



In this video we do a deep dive on Connor Bedard, Matvei Michkov, Will Smith, Leo Carlsson, Adam Fantili, Nate Danielsson, and David Reinbacher

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42 Comments

  2. Kheldaur

    If I was an nhl gm, thereÂŽs no way I would ever draft a russian player, ever.

  4. Fineetu

    Teams passed on Michkov because he said that he doesn’t want to play anywhere but Washington. This is like the Adam Fox situation

  5. Gleb Kipriyanov

    I have been a Ovechkin fan since almost the day I was born. Born 1994, became a diehard Ovechkin fan since the day he was drafted. Ovechkins career is going to its end. Iam happy I did see world juniors (that they didn’t finish) to see how competitive michkov was. Have been a capitals fan since 2004, when michkov comes to flyers it’s time to swap back to fliers, was fliers fan last time when Lindros played there. I hope he comes and displays good hockey 🙂

  7. DownpoursGaming

    Interesting to note, at least in my opinion, Yzerman failed in the 2nd round not the 1st round. 3 second rounders with players like Heidt, Cristall, Morin, Dragocevic, etc all available and he went with the SAFEST limp "biscuit" picks that may just make the ahow but wont be stars. Heidt will be terrorizing teams with Kaprizov and Minnesota for a decade.

  8. Anonymous Rex

    My issue isn't so much that my Coyotes chose a guy at #6 who was rated so low, but that they passed on other players with more upside like Michkov and still could have grabbed the guy in the second round or late first round if they chose to do so rather than wasting the #6 pick.

  12. Rum Hut

    Went to a game in Brandon vs Regina Pats to see Bedard and kept asking who that Danielson guy is cause he was the best player on the ice. Was hoping he would drop to the Jets.

  19. Ryan Hodge

    It’s borderline conspiracy theory because I have a feeling Michkov purposely derailed his interviews to other teams to make sure the flyers drafted him. The flyers were the only team he physically met with at their training facility and he went twice. I think he really wants to play for the team but also live in the area. Philly has a huge Russian population especially in the north east, it’ll probably be easier for him to translate to American life here than most other cities. Maybe that cultural factor played into his desire to play here. There’s a whole neighborhood up my way that is heavily populated by Russians and Eastern Europeans, me and my friends call it “Little Moscow”

  22. Blank Name

    The reason for passing on him was not due to lack of talent. It was the uncertainty of knowing when he would come stateside

  23. Jonny

    Yzerman feels like he became our gm later than he actually did simply because he was so restricted with the mess Holland left for him. All Yzerman could do was draft and make shrewd moves that might be able to help out the bottom 6 and the value with Detroit’s prospects are always different from other organizations because we always try and draft the kid that’s going to translate best into pro hockey and we over value a player that “does all the little things right”

  26. Sean Myers

    My friend. Use non-stock images. That is so amateur.
    I love all of the people talking about this draft and listing the obvious facts as though they're minor details.
    Michkov :
    – Has attitude problems. Teammates, coaches, people who know him; they all say he is a total asshole.
    – His KHL contract. 3 years. You're an NHL team. You draft a player top 5. You don't get to even their games for This is so painfully obvious It hurts to type it. Teams want to get a player and train/monitor them immediately.
    – His HEIGHT. He is a tiny forward. Very tiny. He is not winning puck battles in the corner versus Viktor Hedman, Aaron Ekblad, Moritz Seider, etc… The dude will rip 40 a season and then disappear in the playoffs. Like not even a doubt about it. Then you pay that player 13million. Sound good? Sounds awful. Teams know this. Amateurs like you don't.
    – He's a winger. Thats it. Its a lower value position.

  28. ZachtheKingsfan

    Do people still doubt the Yzerplan? If Yzerman were to look at the camera and say “I can make this player work in our team” that alone is good enough for me to trust in the Yzerplan

  29. MrAmiSuzuki

    Flyers did the same with Peter Forsberg. Took a player that wasn’t “ready/coming” to the NHL until he was ready. This made Forsberg a late first round pick and Marcus Naslund who wanted to play in the NHL right away, flyers said yea Forsberg is best player besides Lindros. They were right.

  31. steven bauer

    michkov was passed over by yotes because he said he would never come to no. america to play for that fkn joke of a franchise. thanks bettman you jakk ass. And it looks like yzerman went for the safe picks this draft instead of talent.

  32. Luc Prefontaine

    I'm a (was) Montreal fan and I'm so angry that they passed in Mitchkov… We haven't had a quality goal scorer for more then 20 years.. and it seems now that we will never have one😱

  33. ValhallaRaven

    At the draft combine, Connor Bedard told Yzerman and Draper that the toughest player he has ever played against in his entire life was Nate Danielson. That’s a huge vote of confidence. Yzerman knows what he is doing and made the right pick for the team. It wasn’t a flashy pick, but it was the right pick.

  34. Dave Knight

    Yeah they said that when they drafted Seider and he won the Calder trophy. He built Tampa into a perennial contender. I'm going to say he knows a lot more than you do about drafting players.

  38. Dougie Sherwin

    With all due respect, this graph doesn't mean much because there is more to hockey than a set of stats from a year in which the other dots didn't compete.

  39. Noah

    I think the reinbacker pick was good because as you said in the video he is the ideal d partner for Hutson and also great video

  41. Marc McRandall

    Comparing the Reinbacher pick to the Seider pick makes less sense when you consider that Reinbacher was projected in the top 10 on multiple draft boards while Seider was not even close. He was even a second rounder on a few boards. Oh, and there was no Mitchkov available when Seider was selected.

  42. Ơimon Ďuriančik

    I think a lot of people don't understand how good Reinbacher is, he played in the NL, which is one the top leagues in the world, possibly the best league in Europe since they can afford players that no other league (not counting KHL) can.. NL is a little on the lower scoring side as ther top scorer had just above 1.3 ppg. My man Reinbacher is 18, and as a defensman he put up 22 points leading all U23 d-men in scoring. The youngest D-man better than him is Tobias Geisser who is 24 and already played in the AHL so has a lot more experience. Also, Reinbacher played on Kloten's roster, they were nowhere near good last season and finished 9th out of 14 teams with 22Ls and 19Ws. Reinbacher managed to put up +7 on that team which ranks him 2nd in that category behind the team's captain who's 36 years old. I believe he might be the best pick outside Connor Bedard, his progress looks good as last season he played between U20 swiss league and the 2nd highest swiss league and did well around 1.1 ppg in the juniors and "only" got 11pts in 27gp in the SL, from there he went to almos 0.5ppg in the highest league. This kid might be special.

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