It was clear from the outset Connor McDavid was the target Tim Murray was looking to rebuild around. That didn't happen. The draft before that was a weaker class but I believe Buffalo got the best offensive player available in Reinhart.
Eichel is a different story however. Great talent, he should mature in to a nice piece.
Okposo and O'Reilly are excellent top 6 pieces. They are missing 2 top 6 LW'ers and 4 defensemen. That's on Murray.
The goalie......straight out, Lehner sucks. His softies deflate a team trying to build a winning culture. Last bight was a prime example of this.
Murray gave a 1st for this clown and there were at least 2 good players available at 21 overall, Colin White and Travis Konecny. Either of those players would have added depth to the pipeline.
And what did Murray get for that pick. A cap dump of David Legwand and the sub par goalie we now have, Robin Lehner.
I firmly believe Tim likes Lehner, but I also firmly believe he threw his uncle one hell of a bone.
Lehner is not the answer in net for us. That trade was just bad, no other way to put it.