[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Psytic

Someone on Hfboards did something like this with dman drafted in the top 5 going back to JBo and came to the same conclusion that its not worth drafting dman high either compared to forwards. Some of the names were Jbo, Barker, E. Johnson and J. Johnson. I think it was an argument against taking Seth Jones over guys like Mckinnon and Drouin.

Do you mean this?...

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.............Lehton en
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 - preferably a C.