Conor McGregor, first overall pick in the S40 draft. During the last season and seasons leading up to the draft, Conor was basically the clear number one pick, had the most TPE and all the talent in the world, Buffalo took him first and he is still there today, sitting at very tasty number of TPE with 862. Some slightly worrying signs can be seen though, Conor has not updated in three months and couple players who were picked behind him are already gone past Conor in TPE, for example his teammate Gottlieb-Odilo-Dankward McZehrl, another s40 draftee, he was the first to hit 1000 TPE from the S40 class. Driftwood, Gotze, Clijsters and Kalju also have more TPE currently and couple more closing in steadily.

Despite the rivals coming from behind, McGregor is playing on decent role over in Buffalo, third line minutes and so far this year in 25 games he has 12 points, that is without any PP time and with ice time average of just under 16 mins per game. He can score in this league, but more of a checking role is not something many expected him to be at few years ago.

Overall, this is McGregor´s fourth full year in SHL, during last three years he managed to collect 52 points in 150 games. If he does not pick up his game and start to put in the work, he might never reach his full potential and the S40 draft will be remembered as a year that had multiple guys having a better career than the first overall pick.