[Tinordi]

With a high pick you need to go for the elite offensive ceiling not the positional need player. Excellent comparison is the 2007 NHL draft.

For many here in this thread, the best pick with the first overall would have been Kyle Turris because he's a center and still projected very high. Patrick Kane was a smaller winger that had significantly more talent. Would you have preferred the Flames took Turris at the time? There were questions at the time about Kane, was he big enough, he wasn't the "clear cut" consensus #1 compared to other drafts say with Stamkos or Yakupov. He was also a left wing, played on a dominant team, but showed very good hockey IQ and elite hands.

Now the analogy isn't direct, certainly there was a bigger gap between Kane and Turris than there is now between Mackinnon and Drouin the logic is the same. Drouin looks like he has the elite scoring talent while Mackinnon is more of a jack of all skills.