Quoting: Shibbal18
Im going off what people who get paid to analyze the draft are saying
What you're going off of is the conflation of "I can't tell who will most likely become a star player" into "this is a weak draft."
Don't you see the silly fallacy in the reasoning that "we can't tell which of 30 guys is any better than the other 29, so they all must stink"?
The fact that pundits can't agree on who are the best players to draft this year means nothing more than that the quality is consistent. Now, that quality may be bad, or it may be good . . . but simply because people are confused doesn't automatically mean that this is a "weak" draft.
Personally, having read more than a dozen dissertations on this year's draft prospects leads me to conclude that any team that doesn't make the playoffs this year has an excellent chance to get a game-changer in the first round. Look where guys like Matt Barzal and Roman Josi and Dylan Larkin and even Cole Caufield or Nick Suzuki were taken.
Every draft is like throwing darts at a dartboard . . . only this year, everyone will be blindfolded due to underexposure. In that circumstance, the best strategy isn't to give all your darts away but to collect as many of them as possible.
In short, the idea that the second overall pick this year is somehow worth less than in any other year is . . . one with which I can't agree.