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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Calgary's experience is irrelevant. Also, we have been talking about lottery picks, not first rounders (different conversation).
Here are the players taken top 3 since 2000 by position (C F D G):
Spezza.....Heatley......Bouwmeester...DiPietro
Svitov......Gaborik.....Barker.............Lehtone n
Staal E.....Kovalchuk..Johnson J........Fleury
Horton.....Nash.........Johnson E
Malkin.....Ovechkin....Doughty
Crosby.....Ryan.........Bogosian
Staal J.....Kane.........Hedman
Toews.....JVR...........Gudbranson
Turris......Hall...........Murray
Stamkos..Landeskog
Tavares...Yakupov
Duchene
Seguin
RNH
Huberdeau
Galchenyuk
Out of 16 Cs, one failure (Russian!) and one or two guys that aren't first liners.
Out of the forwards, no misses.
Out of the D, one star and 3 or 4 top pair guys, but other than Doughty, any of them could be easily replaced with a UFA.
Goalies - don't even think about it!
IMO, there is no contest. If you have a lottery pick, you go with the forward.
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Good post. I'd go even further and say that wingers aren't quite as important as centres and I'd be primarily looking at a centre if I were drafting top 3.
Your list highlights that for me. All my opinions of course
Top 10 players from your list that I'd want to build around in no particular order
Doughty (D), Malkin (C), Crosby (C), E Staal (C), Toews (C), Stamkos (C), Tavares (C), Seguin (C), RNH (C), Spezza (C)