Re: Finally taking rebuild seriously
I think the best candidates for 9th overall would be Leonard, Wood, Dvorsky, Barlow, But. They all landed on teams where they will have opportunities sooner rather than later and they all have NHL type frames which lessens the risk of extended adjustment and injury time (theoretically).
Of those Wood, Barlow, Dvorsky will likely give you the shortest wait time but one might argue that Leonard has the highest ceiling. I'm not personally a big fan of But but he should have an easy path to a critical lineup spot if he develops well.
16 team Pts only dynasty league
G, A, PPG, SHG, GWG, Svs, SO's, W's
Pro Roster Starters: 9 F, 6 D 1 G
FWD: Hertl, Forsberg, Quinn, Rantanen, Debrincat, Couturier, Stankoven, Trocheck, Larkin, Seguin
D: Chychrun, Grzelcyk, Trouba, Burns, Walman, Karlsson, Graves
G: Ullmark, Keumper, Reimer
Farm (notables):
F: Pekarcik, Hage, Cowan, Barkey, Halttunen, Simoneau, Bolduc, Nadeau, Sennecke
D: Brzustewicz, Dionicio, Jiricek, Reinbacher, Minnetian
G: Fedotov, Tarasov, Kochetkov, Skarek, Bussi
(Custom cap. It's complicated but expect top players to be around 10-12% of cap. Depth players cost around 5-6%)