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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
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.
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Sorry but that is BS logic. If the scouts you are paying to rank prospects based on your own organizational criteria for best prospect available are telling you to pick a guy at #1, but you don't do it because a bunch of scouting services that have widely different criteria think another player is better... grow a set of balls and make the unpopular pick if you aren't getting fair value in trading down.