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Originally Posted by fotze
There is also probably is a premium to this years draft being so good. Looking at 2003, we could end up with Eric Staal, Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry.
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/nhl2003e.html
You can see the teams who loaded up on picks that year and what they got.
Anaheim - 19 - Ryan Getzlaf
Anaheim - 28 - Corey Perry
Florida - 3 - Nathan Horton
Florida - 25 - Anthony Stewart
Los Angeles - 13 - Dustin Brown
Los Angeles - 26 - Brian Boyle
Los Angeles - 27 - Jeff Tambellini
Philadelphia - 11 - Jeff Carter
Philadelphia - 24 - Mike Richards
San Jose - 6 - Milan Michalek
San Jose - 16 - Steve Bernier |
Frick can u imagine? If the hype around this draft is accurate and our scouting doesnt tank hard we could almost accomplish in one summer what the oilers did in 3 years while inloading the bigger contracts at the same time.
Its that or young guns part deux.