Why Were 24 Players Drafted Before David Pastrnak? Where Are They Now?

[@dylanjones268]

I have nothing but respect for Pasta. Here's a guy who was underappreciated, treated well by his first NHL team and even though he proved himself, chose a team friendly contract. As a Leaf fan I am envious..

[@august4222]

Hehe, the only guy who took a team-friendly deal of the big guys is Nylander. 6.9 really isn't that much for someone who I think is destined for 70+ points, plus he's insanely good in the neutral zone, both with and without the puck. Fast as hell too. Only thing that lets him down is his defensive and battle play, but wow he's fantastic at almost everything else. Matthew's contract is not great considering how incomplete of a center he is. Marners contract is just not good either. They are still very young though so they could def get better and more complete, but wow they aren't great yet. Not 10 mil+ players.

[@user-wp9mb5yq5e]

Bruins have a strict team policy about not overpaying players. Bruins players must play for the team and not for themselves. Really fucking smart if you think about it...

[@colton1232]

Yeah like I hate the bruins, but I like Pasternak so

[@august4222]

@Charles Szasz yup, exact same for me. Nice to see him being so great this year though.

[@ronryan7398]

Possibly, and maybe he should fire his agent. He should be making at least $8M/yr. Probably more as Draisaitl is on a cap friendly contract, but not as friendly as Pasta's. That's a friendly with benefits contract, because he's getting f****d.

[@iCoolaxe]

Draisaitl, Pastrnak, Point, Larkin, Ekblad. That would be my personal top 5 in a re-draft.

[@Lebby-lc9co]

Larkin>Point imo

[@Thenorthelect]

Lebby1074 god no! Point is a POInT per game player

[@fabianlysellsleftshinpad]

PASTA OVER DRAISAOTL

[@Lebby-lc9co]

@CJM10 Yeah but Point has Stamkos, Kucherov, and Hedman. Larkin has nobody, and he still has the same numbers as Point

[@shaundhillon8850]

Evan Leatherbee no chance

[@christophermerlot3366]

When you said Chairelli made a good decision my nose mysteriously started to bleed.

[@jonpalms3951]

well rumor is that Sweeney was in his ear convincing him to take Pasta.

[@SpecializedP2Ler]

@@MrZerostudio like Koski? Wasn't that done like 4-5 days before he got fired from the oils?

[@MrZerostudio]

Skyler Beauchesne probably. He did it to three players on the bruins. Seguin,Horton, boychuck. I wouldn’t be surprised. Someone should make a vid or investigate that guy. seems so sus

[@ronryan7398]

Yeah, it was hit and miss with Chiarelli. Great job with Draisaitl and McDavid, but then there's Reinhart. The Lucic deal I give him half a pass for, because everyone was lauding it at the time. I also give him half a pass for Hall, because the Oilers wanted rid of him. And if Hall's so great, why did Jersey dump him too?

[@kassuplayz1329]

"Larkin kinda the future face of the franchise" I would say he is already the face of the franchise already

[@scummydummy]

Larkin has heart, that's something that has more value than any amount of goals. He has still yet to see his best days. As a positive, it's becoming clear hes in the caps chair even though it's only A for now

[@azach5288]

Kassu Playz Larkin is the most over rated player of all time!

[@LonerNomad]

@@azach5288 your moms overrated.

[@azach5288]

LonerNomad The only thing more pathetic than Dylan Larkin is Detroit claiming you be hockey town! They have to throw in free parking, hats, and hot dogs for the kids, and they still can’t sell out! And I’m talking in the playoffs!! Pathetic!

[@ronryan7398]

Larkin's a good player, but he's not a no.1 center

[@nickokona6849]

For the same reason 204 players, including 21 goalies were drafted before Henrik Lundqvist in 2000. Scouting can only be so good, and hockey players are people.

[@iLikeDMR]

Pekka Rinne was also drafted late as a #258 in 2004

[@nickokona6849]

Yep. Same with Datsyuk, Zetterberg.

[@LonerNomad]

Hockey players are not people.

[@nickokona6849]

LonerNomad right..

[@ronryan7398]

It's really tough to tell with goalies. Fluery is a good goalie, was he worth a 1st overall pick? Is Price worth $10M/yr? Would the Rangers like to dump Lunqvist?

[@caghockey]

Keep in mind, the Islanders selected Josh Ho-Sang after that at 26.

[@ronryan7398]

If Ho-Sang could get his head straight he'd be in the NHL. He just doesn't want to play defense.

[@caghockey]

@Tamaz Okruashvili that was the point.

[@_penguins9916]

Imagine being Colorado and choosing a guy who never played over McCann and Pasternak. Yikes.

[@tompriestley8221]

_Penguins dude pasta on the avs now? Jeeeeez

[@_penguins9916]

nevertweet015 seems like they got they act together, Newhook is a complete steal. Also Makar but I don’t even have to explain that

[@mikestewart996]

@nevertweet015 Not every team hits well with their first round picks either though. If you can get 4/5 top players (Landeskog, Mackinnon, Rantanen, Makar, plus any others) from your picks over a few years then that sets you up to be a contender. All other pieces can be gotten from good team management/trading, example being the Duchene trade where they also got Bowen Byram. Your points are fair but the fact that the Av's are a contender and only going to get better despite some questionable drafting outside of the first round proves it isn't everything, they have to be doing something right

[@JoseRibeiro-jg4qx]

nevertweet015 hence why management changed in 2013 lol

[@hankscorpio7767]

@@mikestewart996 ''Not every team hits well with their first round picks either though.'' But you're supposed to though. Those teams are just dog shit at drafting.

[@aspapiroki6215]

Im from Södertälje so i used to watch pastrnak. He was so Good with nylander.

[@eken1725]

Yeah. Me too. My house was directly in front of the apartment house where he lived. It can be seen in the window in his living room. Also, I'm not gay.

[@aspapiroki6215]

@@eken1725 okay but you still responded. Sorry i dont make the rules

[@eken1725]

@@aspapiroki6215 nah. I got immune to that.

[@christophermerlot3366]

If you did a video like this for Zetterberg it would take three hours.

[@nathanstreilein758]

Or Datsyuk

[@Kerem9_8]

"Where they are now" i think he would only talk about people drafted before Z who are still playing in 2019 Edit: just did research, Ryan Miller and Craig Anderson are the only players left from that draft

[@jonathanhall218]

Hasek. Back in the 8th round ahaha.

[@grievousjab4213]

what about Lundqvist lol

[@Collinsjack101]

Or lundquitz

[@TB-im1ci]

How about a video on the 44 drafted before Bergeron

[@kanyevil127]

T B and the 62 I think before Marchand

[@ChiTownGangster]

great vid! i like this kind of style

[@rickg1453]

I’m cool with the caps taking Vrana he’s been great for us

[@michaelknight2299]

Rick G Haha u not happy with vrana. Come on

[@rickg1453]

michael knight can you read?

[@michaelknight2299]

I read that u are cool with vrana over pasta. Did I miss something

[@rickg1453]

michael knight not what I said..... Vranas a very good player though so I’m not mad that they got him

[@wyattmack9071]

Rick G He’s no pastranak though

[@jsalmari]

Sebastian Aho is one of the biggest steals ever

[@mapa6353]

Mites toi Kimmo Timonen aikoinaan?

[@zachbarry5292]

Salminen Pasta is more of a steal.

[@LonerNomad]

Sebastian aho is a old man.

[@kingkongweiwei7669]

Salminen possibly panerin that guy was undrafted

[@lucass3675]

Robbitallie, Hasek, Lundqvist, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Pavelski, and many more. No offense but aho’s nowhere near those guys

[@aidanw9378]

When you say 'and' between every player it sounds like one massive run on sentence

[@janoycresva1930]

From nobodystrnak to clutchtrnak

[@khockey6876]

Janoy Cresva not sure if I would call the 2018-19 playoffs very clutch

[@czarii2422]

Idk man, getting to the finals isn’t bad

[@ImYaDadd]

khockey68 he is carrying them Rn so I guess that’s clutch but that also have Bergeron they are good this year

[@zachbarry5292]

khockey68 He had a broken hand the entire playoffs. What was he supposed to do?

[@ImYaDadd]

Zach Barry lol unbreak his hand maybe

[@MrSharkFIN]

I think only Drai should've gone before him.

[@andyc9979]

With you on that. At the time tho it's impossible to know. I'm sabres fan. I'm just glad they didn't draft Bennett. Couple others I'd rather have than reinhart but thank God he turned out to be a solid top 6 player

[@ronryan7398]

And he didn't go no.1 either. Ekblad? Maybe. But another Reinhart? The smallest one at that.

[@ronryan7398]

@@andyc9979 But I'd give up Eichel in a heartbeat to have Draisaitl. Those are the ones that haunt you. Not the guy who everyone passed over like Pasternak, it's the guy who went one or two selections after you, those are the ones that hurt.

[@tomwilson3969]

its almost like its hard to judge how good children will be before the draft

[@ronryan7398]

And yet the NHL gets their draft right way more than NFL, NBA or MLB. In football and basketball they're drafting guys who are 21 and are already playing with the same pressure a pro endures. And they get it dead wrong, especially the NFL.

[@tomwilson3969]

@@ronryan7398 Really? Thats super interesting. Ill have to look into that. I only really pay close attention to hockey prospects.

[@ramdon5288]

Little mistake.. Czech Republic is not Eastern Europe, its Central Europe, we are sensitive about this sorry..

[@nhlvan]

Cool, I've seen this same style of video from an NBA youtuber

[@OhNyquist]

NHL VAN that’s where I got the inspiration ! I linked the vid in description

[@demontrauma2373]

Same

[@seats151]

You should do every player selected after zboril and senyshen from the 2015 nhl draft. Yikes

[@birdiec]

Imagine if Boston took Chabot and Barzal instead....

[@davidbuswa9425]

They aren't that bad. Both have skated with the big club. Zboril will be a servicable d-man, while Senyshen will be a 3rd liner player. I'm okay with both picks once they play for the Bruins. Players take more time to develop that's all

[@davidbuswa9425]

@@birdiec If the Bruins took Chabot, they don't take McAvoy the next year. McAvoy is the better two way d-man Chabot is. McAvoy played an instrumental part in the Bruins' Stanley Cup run last year. Chabot can't get his team to the playoffs. The Barzel omission was because the Bruins gambled that Ryan Spooner was going to be a NHL player. They figured that Barzel was similar in style with Spooner, whom they had already in their organization. Total misread on the Bruins' management. But it worked in the end for the Bruins. They are still Cup contenders, while the Sens are a lottery team

[@friendlygaming7994]

@@davidbuswa9425 because Chabot Is the team, McAvoy has Bergeron, pastrnak, Marchand and a veteran to teach him in Chara

[@davidbuswa9425]

@@friendlygaming7994 Well Chabot had Karlsson and Ceci to teach to teach him. It's not McAvoy's fault that Ottawa had a fire sale

[@thbergeron]

Pastrnak is god

[@jackduker9737]

Did anyone else honestly think that was Pete Davidson in the intro video?😂I sure as hell did😂

[@justingray21]

A series I think would be interesting is that u do a NHL redraft of the top 10 or 15

[@kaxtonburas7960]

He has done it for a few draft years I think one was 2016

[@nikolasgaunt580]

McDavid, MacKinnon. and that’s it because Pastrnak doesn’t ask for money

[@codycooper2753]

What?

[@ryanwalker4554]

Ya what?

[@MultiCappie]

You'd not take Draisaitl over Pastrnak???

[@ronryan7398]

Then he's stupid. You've only got so long to make your money in any sport. He could blow a knee and then that's it, once his contract is up... bye-bye. Pasternak should fire his agent. McDavid took a little less than he could have got, but not much, and he's still the highest paid player. Draisaitl is getting less than he's worth, but not by much. Pasternak is getting about 2/3 of what he's worth, and he doesn't owe the Bruins shit. And he's not getting endorsement $ like McDavid. He should be making $10M/yr not $6.6.

[@TheMemeBorrower.]

Why does 1:38 look like a stock photo

[@ryguy6577]

I’d love to see more videos like this with other players in other drafts

[@joeymaterese8095]

Only 2 people should have been drafted before pasta.. Jesus Christ and Tom Brady and maybe not that order... Jesus saves but pasta scores on the rebound...much love from boston by a bostonian for a boztonian....

[@JohnnyD603]

Even though I'm a Boston Bruins fan there isn't any player in that draft is I would take before David pastrnak lacking in defense and other aspects of the defensive side of hockey but his offensive upside is Far and Away worst the lacking of Defense he has been consistent since he started and the other players are in this draft have not been consistent yes like draisaitl is a great hockey player but he seems to have a lot of up-and-down seasons where pastrnak has just consistently gotten better and better to the point where he's pretty much the best player in hockey he is a threat on any line that he is on and he makes that line that he is on 10 times better in every way without him on this team I don't think that the Bruins would be a Stanley Cup contender

[@evanvanwormer6805]

Quick tip: Find another transition phrase. I think you used "and then" for every pick.

[@Suce.]

Man was drafted 25th overall and made the team right away now that’s pretty impressive (and I’m from Montreal and I’m a habs fan btw 😂)

[@dannyb5328]

That Jake Virtanen pick still hurts me as a nucks fan 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@mcdaviddeservesbetter8]

We were so blessed. 🇩🇪

[@codycooper2753]

@SquidBag what?

[@a1rstone557]

Pasta

[@Eibarwoman]

The Pasta Atronach is a hockey god

[@maryrowe1616]

Great personality to go along with his great hockey skills.

[@nathanielnot4u]

I'll keep mikko rantannen thank you very much

[@blessed787]

Hahahaha

[@dominickrinaldi6727]

And to think Pasta was the highest drafted player on one of, if not the best line in hockey right now - Pastrnak 25th Overall(2014), Bergeron 45th Overall(2003) and Marchand 71st Overall (2006)

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

I would put Landeskog-Rantanen-Mckinnon as the best line with pasta and guys coming in 2nd

[@zachbarry5292]

Edgy McEdgelord Statistically speaking, the Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak line has more points over the last few seasons compared to the Avs top line.

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

@@zachbarry5292 I actually did not know that. im personally a Ducks fan but as a finn, I have to have a bias toward Rantanen so avs. They both are amazing, thats for sure

[@jessicaseguin8504]

I hope you'll have to do the same countdown with Cole Caufield one day 🤞🤞

[@ethanknight8461]

Jessica Séguin 👍👍👍

[@timeland8343]

He definitely will

[@PA1NPACKER]

I'm kinda dissappointed you would choose any over pastrnak!

[@soadfan1016]

As an Avs fan, I still cringe over drafting Bleakley instead of Pasta. I can't imagine how lethal he'd be playing with MacKinnon and Rantanen.

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

TBH, Landeskog aint that bad trade off

[@someczechguy]

Fun fact: Fiala is Czech last name and it means purple

[@oskforalltid]

Wonder if his family has Czech roots then perhaps

[@someczechguy]

Douglas He is half czech just like Draisaitl is. Also Kahun is Czech his family just moved to germany when he was a kid.

[@CinematicComics]

taking Pasta almost (not quite) make up for the horrible worst trade of all time Seguin blunder.

[@zachbarry5292]

cinematic comics channel That’s not the worst trade of all time. The worst trade of all time is either Montreal trading Roy to the Avs or Chicago trading away Phil Esposito for a bag of pucks.

[@Silenceaverted]

You should do a top 10 players from each draft and show what their draft position was. Would be interesting to see how many players were from later rounds

[@pumpkinhead564]

Connor bleaklys mom was my 6th grade teacher

[@unbiasbruinsfan7330]

6:36 Ritchie has actually been really good for boston. He's been a staple on the 2nd line since the kase injury. Kinda crazy to see his progress and exciting for bruins fans since he'll be apart of this team for a while imo

[@nolanplyley]

Just think, if Boston would’ve chose Nikita Sherbak then Montreal would’ve had Pastrnak with the 26 pick

[@SportsMuppets]

Players he plays with does help.his career

[@OhNyquist]

100% but this year he is on another level

[@Adamos321]

definitely - and lately it goes other way round as well, as Bergeron and Marchand often praise their coop with Pasta.

[@ronryan7398]

By that metric, Panarin's a step up then. Because he has the same numbers and doesn't have the same caliber of linemates.

[@Jake_Broer]

Hot take: David Pastrnak should be a Hart candidate.

[@grahamconklin5464]

Jake Broer not even the mvp on his team

[@timsweeney684]

Graham Conklin uh yes he is. He has like more than a quarter of his teams goals

[@grahamconklin5464]

Tim Sweeney I agree with you honestly he is hart candidate now

[@timsweeney684]

Graham Conklin easily. It’s him and mcdavid at the top. If pasta keeps scoring such a high percentage of the bruins goals he can win it easily

[@Jid4sh]

If you think Pasta has his numbers only cause his playing in first lane you should know, you have to be superb first, to play there.

[@zachbarry5292]

Vaclav Zetek Pasta also plays with Krejci and has the same success.

[@hammoudii8071]

Pasta is a flipping god

[@bxrrysykes136]

But what does that make kuch, a better god?

[@czarii2422]

shane appelle Not this year

[@odeszaa]

great vid, but i feel you should talk about why they fell to where they are, why players were chosen before them, and what risks they would be taking if they chose Pasta. hindsight is always 20/20, and drafts for the most part are a crapshoot outside of the top 10. would love to see more vids like this though, like with boeser, petersson, dabrincat, gaudreau, mcavoy, and point!

[@YungFitzy24]

A lot of the other players either weren't the right fit, went to bad teams, or just haven't broken out yet. No disrespect to pasta, but he is on a championship winning organization, playing with two elite, Stanley cup winning players

[@richard-king-]

Jim Benning, with a strong drafting reputation, moves from Boston to Vancouver and then picks Virtanen and McCann before his former team hit the jackpot.

[@joelmcisaac3931]

Can you do a video on every single player drafted before Datysuk in the 1998 draft?

[@ronryan7398]

It would be 9 hours long. He went in the 7th round.

[@owendowler3910]

I’d rather have draisaitl than pasta imo

[@letsgooilers]

Draisaitl is sick

[@czarii2422]

Ok I wouldn’t

[@czarii2422]

I disagree, but think it’s either way

[@danielmarkusthefive7978]

both are insane

[@drumdrumjimmmy]

I'd rather have a chicken donair.

[@string7135]

Reupload?

[@OhNyquist]

Yes first one got claimed by a Czech sports company

[@string7135]

OhNyquist oh

[@MC-bh3ff]

great vid :) how can you be mad at your team for not picking pastrnak when half of the leauge didnt as well............ i hate you boston -canucks fan go virtanen ;(

[@Matt-qv6od]

How's the 2011 memory. M8 you guys rioted cause you lost. Damn

[@smellymike6186]

stop saying obviously

[@jackrobertson2904]

1.Draisaitl 2.Pastrnak

[@hayden1922]

Great video wish my team could have got him

[@OhNyquist]

Me too man!

[@enzostauffer240]

That has got to be a series! Am i right?

[@Lebby-lc9co]

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Islanders passed on Lundqvist for Rick DiPietro

[@remi9007]

Lebby1074 they passed on him like 6-7 times😂

[@46bovine]

Pasta is fantastic!

[@romandoo]

Because he's not American or Canadian.

[@Kaden4429]

You don’t know hockey

[@southpawjimmy9735]

It wasn't a "I can believe this player fell to us" kind of thing. He was rated pre-draft to go exactly there and Chirelli's depth chart of Right wingers was topped with Seth Griffin at the the time so it was a best RW available instead of his usual best Candian non-center available.

[@joeymaterese8095]

Wait if you were a spy you would be in spy jail...I was convinced you were a bs guy who bled blk & gold but I heard a disturbing comment about other original 6 teams team that you fancied yes go ahead I still like you but fess up... right the red army cccp or non as Detroit red wings...I know a rock hit by accident ok

[@lucifermorningstar3709]

I was 100% sure he was drafted 28th overall lol. wasn’t that the year that they lost in the final to chicago, but then the new jersey devils got a penalty for signing kovalchuck to an illegal contract, so they got a penalty of having to draft 30th, so rather then drafting 29th, boston drafted 28th? 🤔

[@joeymaterese8095]

You said he fell in peters lap don't give him that much credit. The only person I hate more than Peter C is Alan eagleson Lucic was bread to be a bruin for life but noooooo then Seguin horton and the guy we sent to The isle i had 2 years of electro shock to forget his name boychuck damn another round of shocks...please.. then one way butt buddy contracts and no trade clauses.. Who would even gives out a one way deal... so your a great bd fan just kick a few dogs and when someone pidses you off.just lick there face and welcome home

[@kretenskej]

Open a map from time to time, Czechia ain't eastern europe 😂

[@staffan144]

It is eastern Europe (as in eastern European culture and language, was part of former Soviet union = Eastern Europe (lived behind a wall (so to speak) until the collapse of Soviet union in 1990) as opposed to 'free' western European 'democracies' (the latter whom r not democracies anymore though (neither is USA a democracy anymore). Now the roles r kind of reversed)

[@janroucka9926]

@@staffan144 no we weren't part of Soviet Union, we were occupied by them from 1968 to 1989... also historically we have much closer culture to Germany and Austria

[@staffan144]

@@janroucka9926 yes, u were occupied by soviet union and thus u were part of soviet union whether u like to face that truth or not (and btw, there r Russians who still today think that soviet union was the greatest nation ever known to man in all of history..., a few crazy Russians who think that, and they r just telling me that on utube...(and of course they live abroad today). (I can understand if u want to distance yourself from that) Anyway (that was besides the point), but isnt your language more like eastern European, not german related, so to speak? Hmm.. Yes (just looked it up) It is a slavic language (looked it up). That's more eastern, not Western europe, so,to speak. Anyway2, r u saying that chechia is not and never was part of eastern europe?

[@janroucka9926]

@@staffan144 there is big difference between being part of Soviet Union (USSR) and being part of Eastern bloc... It is like saying that Eastern Germany was a part of Soviet Union... sure we were under influence from USSR but it's not the same... And yes the language is in Slavic language group but Slavic isn't automatically Eastern... And apart from time after WW2 we Czechia or rather Czech Republic weren't part of Eastern Europe Which you can look up from our rich history started from 9th century

[@zachbarry5292]

Jan Roučka The Czech region was occupied by the USSR. Therefore, the Czech region was part of the USSR. Once the USSR was disbanded, Czechoslovakia split up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[@gocanuckurself1]

We drafted fucking McCann RIGHT BEFORE Pastrnak. FUCK SAKES.

[@goldtigre4979]

Coming back to this video in 2024 is wild. Reinhart is 2nd in the league in scoring, leading Pasta by 4.

[@vaughngiesbrecht9668]

Interestingly enough at this point in time its 1. Drais 2. Pasta 3. Rantanen 4. Nylander 5. Tuch In points

[@Kloudmachine38]

The Flames traded away their first round pick in 2015 for Dougie Hamilton so they were totally not going to draft him

[@MultiCappie]

Smooth move, numbnuts.

[@highwaymaintainer]

many later drafted players go to better teams and learn better skills early on, some of these top guys learn crap from the sh*t rosters they are on, but I still believe the top drafts should go to brutal teams

[@Murdock1]

Dominik Hašek was drafted by Chicago in the 10th round 199th overall.

[@imoginny07]

*Stanley Cup Champion Jakub Vrana

[@dennis6708]

Draisaitl 1st, Pastrnak 2nd, Larkin 3rd

[@valtterilyytinen13]

Rantanen over Larkin

[@erik2shiesty]

Haydn Fleury legit scored as you were talking about him

[@empire0]

He'd be #2 behind Leon.

[@milesdufourny4813]

Draisaital is the only one compatible to Pastrnak. They both play at a level that makes them true stars.

[@matthewkotzmacher5786]

4 months in the future and fiala is now a top point scorer and is considered to be an up and comer😂

[@emtea5138]

This was uploaded before he won maurice richard trophy

[@GustavoShrapnel]

I find it insane that the Caps could've had Pastrnak but tbf, I don't think he'd be killing it in D.C. like he is in Boston, our top 2 lines are set and aren't going anywhere for a few years so Pasta likely would've been on a 3rd or 4th line role here in D.C.

[@patrickschannelpokemonswee3803]

Pasta on the av's would be just insane

[@pumpkinhead564]

Connor bleaklys mom was my 6th grade teacher

[@gged]

The best player in this draft is Leon and pasta 2nd

[@Je1imanek]

After his dad pass away, Pastrnak's mom had to have three jobs, because want kept them doing sport. Czech republic is not eastern europe. Czech republic is in central europe, they have 1000years comon history with Germany

[@ronryan7398]

Still one of the best drafts in NHL history. There's about 4 or 5 players I'd take over Pasternak. Darisaitl, McDavid, MacKinnon, Hedman, and Crosby still. Then it gets to maybe Panarin, because he doesn't have the line mates Pasta does and puts up the same numbers. Then it's coin tosses. Matthews, Kane, Zabinijad. I'll always take a center over a winger, tougher and far more important position. The surprising thing is how few defensemen are among the top players in the game right now, especially since Karlsson stopped being Karlsson.

[@1Amiel1]

Not sure if this was reported by apparently Jim Benning of the Vancouver Canucks was soooo pissed at his scouting staff for missing out on Pastrnak. We drafted McCann which he seems to be doing well in Pittsburgh but damn we did miss out!

[@Ryanreactstohockey]

Redraft 1. Leon Draisaitl 2. David Pastrnak 3. Brayden Point 4. Aaron Ekblad 5. Dylan Larkin

[@august4222]

Someone should really take a shot on Honka. Has lots of skill and can be a very effective player in a top 4 role. Give him some sheltered minutes against a little worse competition and you'll have a pretty good offensive d-man. Good transitionally as well. Imo a team like Ottawa should look into getting him, especially considering how bad Dallas have been, they could need some reinforcements. Maybe Honka for a Boedker, Hainsey, Namestnikov and/or Tierney. All of those 4 are expendable for Ottawa imo, and a package with 1, 2 or 3 of them plus something would definitely get Honka.

[@eken1725]

Fun fact. My home is actually in this video. Right in the beginning, when you see his living room in Sweden, you can see a house right across the street. That's where I live.

[@boland73]

Pasta was down so far because he hadn’t posted his current numbers before he got drafted... he only had average numbers in Sweden from what you’ve said

[@RodelIturalde]

What about what happened to the players who went before panel Datsyuk in the draft? So everyone drafted in 1996, 1997 and 170 players in 1998.

[@SteeleZack]

Conner Bleackley was actually re-selected in 2016 and was taken in 5th round by St.Louis . Well things continued to not go his way and after playing his rookie contract out with St.Louis all of which are were spent in the AHL or the ECHL, he was not given an NHL contract offer . He now playing on a AHL contract with the Texas Stars.

[@azach5288]

Dylan Larkin is by far the most over rated player I can recall in the last 20 years!

[@TheSkyatollah]

Then you have a short memory and don't understand talent.

[@Kaden4429]

By far the best player from that class

[@jingleoctopus4160]

Look I love pasta but draisitl

[@Kaden4429]

@@jingleoctopus4160 no

[@Kaden4429]

@@jingleoctopus4160 how about now?

[@jingleoctopus4160]

@@Kaden4429 draisitl has 123 points and 50+ goals

[@kellenwarman9250]

I would take Crosby bud

[@Windyyyyyyyyy]

It sucks that the islanders took dal colle over ehlers or nylander, but hes been getting better this season thankfully

[@garrettjones9549]

Why did the ducks pick Ritchie. Coulda had Larkin or pasta

[@ethanknight8461]

Garrett Jones that’s what i say! I think they went for size

[@boland73]

Hindsight is always 20/20... people would’ve taken Datsyuk in AT LEAST the first round of that year if they had a re-draft because he had some of the best hands in the league