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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
a lot of this goes in to unlucky draft years too, not that they deserve any credit for 3 straight first overall picks, but going back to 2000 1st overall picks they just picked the worst time to suck
If you were going through this list and were told you could pick any 3 year run of 1st overall picks to build your team around I think 2010-2012 would be the least desired
2013 Nathan MacKinnon
2012 Nail Yakupov
2011 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
2010 Taylor Hall
2009 John Tavares
2008 Steven Stamkos
2007 Patrick Kane
2006 Erik Johnson
2005 Sidney Crosby
2004 Alexander Ovechkin
2003 Marc-Andre Fleury
2002 Rick Nash
2001 Ilya Kovalchuk
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You do have to look at developing. If you take out Ovechkin, Crosby and Tavares - I'd argue Hall (and maybe RNH) were at the same level as most of these guys when they were drafted. Thinking back to their draft years... I'd have Hall ahead of Kane, Nash, Johnson, Fleury and MacKinnon... and fairly similar to Stamkos.