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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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I'm sure that is what the Oilers would love for everyone to believe.
But most of this is hindsight being 20-20. Murray was more of a darkhorse than anything for #1 pick. Yakapov was a consensus at #1 with all of the scouting services (Mckenzie, ISS, Hockey News, Craig Button, Red Line Report). They could have obviously traded down, but there really wasn't much debate about who was going #1.