Quoting: Boos
...Sabres need defense and goaltending. Period. If they're gonna toss around first rounders, that's where they need to use them.
Quoting: Sabresguy1987
That is more than what cat went for last year...
Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
Is it though? Cat was traded for 7th, 39th and a 3rd this year. As it stands right now that Sabres pick is 13th and the 2nds are from the following years. Now Buffalo could definitely drop to 11th but I doubt the fall into the top 10. Even then picks are exponentially better the higher they are, it's not usually not a steady growth in value. I think we can use Chicago's 2 picks from that draft as a perfect example here too. Korchinski is starting to look like a steal already at #7 and Nazer really hasn't shown too much yet. There is still time for that to change but I think that #7 holds quite a bit more value
True the second round picks are far into the future.
One has to evaluate the strength of the draft as well.
It is too early to evaluate the 2022 v 2023 draft but most prognosticators believe 2023 will be out standing.
Let's compare the top 5 goal producers from past drafts:
2012, Forsberg 239 goals, Hertl 200, Galchenyuk 146, Pearson 133, Taravainen 129
2013, Mackinnon 272, Barkov 238, Monahan 218, Horvat 206, Lindholm 202
2014, Draisatl 292, Pasternak, 288, Point 211, Reinhart 194, Larkin/Ehlers 173
2015, McDavid 297, Aho 212, Rantanen 212, Connor 205, Eichle 179
I would imagine given a choice of a 7th over all in the 2012 draft v a 10th over all in any of the following three drafts a GM would have picked the 10th over all in the '13, '14 or '15 drafts.
You are also forgetting that a known NHL player is included Mittelstadt (only 10 players have more carreer pts than he from that draft class so let's drop that "BUST" label after his name) and a second instead of a third.
So yes this is significantly more than what Ottawa gave up to get him.