It's always tough to look back at your misses. At the time, I was leaning Hischier but did not expect such a large gap between Patrick and Hischier.
I'm already seeing a covid trend, that will be interesting to follow for the next 20 years. I don't have all the numbers to back it up yet but it's clear we were totally lost for the 2021 (and probably 2022) drafts, especially compared with 2017, 2018, and 2019. I have nothing to base this on, but given that we follow NHL trends, I suspect this will be the case in the NHL as well.
I created the "denominator index" at the beginning of the 2017 draft to score how close our picks were to reality. It's not a great score but if we use that to see how accurate we are to reality, you can see that covid really messed us up:
2017: 4.1
2018: 4.5
2019: 4.2
2020: 4.6
2021: 3.6
You don't need to know the details of the formula but a higher score means the mock pick was closer to the real pick. That's a big dropoff in 2021!