Ranking All Of The Sharks First Round Picks 2000-2019

Oh wow. I didn't realize how poorly the Sharks had drafted in the 1st round. This starts out great, but rather wrinkly heads south. Waaaaaay south. Often. Yikes.

The Sharks are coated in deep layers of suck. I wasn't really surprised how bad the list was when I first saw it.

You have to understand the only top 5 draft pick since 2000 was Smith this year the average draft spot 2000-2019 was like 20th OA

You can’t judge without understanding the average draft spot was 20th OA and none are top 5. NHL average from picks 15-25 only 70% ever play a game and only 59% play more than a 100. Their average isn’t bad.

Buddy, it's teetering toward brutal. Until this summer the Blues hadn't had a top 10 pick in 15 years and hadn't had a 1st higher then 17th since 2010. They've basically been between 18 and 26 for eons. They've hit on nearly all their 1sts for almost two decades.

I doubt that especially considering they’re not that good. Sharks actually grade out as one of the better drafting teams. They find a lot of mid to late round gems (Pavelski, Labanc, Braun, Demello etc.) but there is room for improvement not going to lie

Bruh. Starting from 2022 and moving backwards:

Snuggerud*
Bolduc
Neighbours*
Bokk
Thomas*
Kostin*
Thompson*
Fabbri*
Schmaltz*
Tarasenko
Schwartz
Rundblad
Pietrangelo
Eller
Cole
Perron*
Johnson
Berglund*
Oshie*

And of the three busts, Rundblad was traded straight up for the pick that got Tarasenko and Bokk was sent in the Faulk deal, so they quickly moved those guys out for goodies while they still had value. Then you add on all the Dunns and Paraykos and Barbashevs ans Bishops from later rounds. It's easy to laugh and say "oh but they're not good" cherry picking off one bad season, but the Blues drafted 13 players from their Cup winning team.

I know what awful drafting looks like, the Blues were among the worst under a previous scouting regime in the 90s and the first few years of the 00s. Of course the Sharks have hit a few home runs, but 23 years is a long time to go with twice as many total strikeouts as hits. The Sharks need to fix their scouting, man. Picking late a lot is not really an excuse to miss this much. Not trying to roast, just being for real. If the Blies had this drafting record, I'd be up in arms.

Sharks stopped focusing on scouting till DW JR took over in 17/18, the sharks drafting from 18-22 was way better and 23 looks like a pretty solid draft class for us, Svoboda was a big reach but he could be a solid gritty 4C and getting that in the 3rd round or later isn’t bad decision. But yea 02-17 was more luck than good scouting IMO.

That being said based on a few scouting reports grading the scouting over that period sharks rated really well given the lack of picks they had and how late they usually drafted