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Originally Posted by Psytic
Thats not actually true there was a debate about quite a few of these guys through the year in their draft year. My point is taking a forward seems to be a better choice than taking a D man high historically. I don't think your response really has anything to do with what im talking about tbh. No one is saying these Dman are busts but taking a forward seems to make more sense. So this does reflect history and does actually pertain to the choice we will have. We are looking at one of 5 top guys and that list does include a dman, so the dman vs forward debate is quite relevant.
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Sure but arguably Doughty was the best pick available at #2 and he was a defenseman. So is history showing to take the defenseman in that scenario?
Hedman was arguably a decent pick ahead of Duchesne and very much debateable vs Kane and Schenn. So again history isn't proving there that you have to take the forward.
So the history you picked showed that those defensemen were worthy of being picked top 3. Just like this year where Ekblad will likely go top 3. Those two years certainly aren't telling us to avoid defensemen high, that would be a crazy conclusion to draw from those draft years.