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Originally Posted by blankall
To add to this point.
On the Flames:
Giordano - undrafted.
Wideman - 241st overall
Brodie - 114th overall
On recent cup winners:
Keith - 54th
Seabrook - 14th
Oduya - 221st
Hjalmarsson - 108th
Chara - 56th
Seidenberg - 172nd
Ferrence - 208th
Letang - 62nd
Goligoski - 61st
Gonchar - 14th
Lidstrom - 53rd
Rafalski - undrafted
Kronwall - 29th
The only team that has a lot of high end d-picks are LA with Doughty and Johnson, both going top 3. Even then, Johnson was considered to be trending towards bust territory at one point. The overall point is that succesful teams rarely rely on top draft picks to draft future top 4 d-men.
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Johnson wasn't even a LA pick he was picked by the Canes who gave up on him and traded him for Gleason +