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Originally Posted by bubbsy
i gotta throw this in this thread, but watching tonight's game between the habs/lightening, is it really a good idea to draft a d man with a lottery/top3 pick?
Hedman, 2nd overall, and yes, he seems to be improving every year, but does any team ever go back and think leaving duchene on the table over this guy was a good idea? Furthermore, a 2nd round pick >>> hedman, and had a much greater impact on his team's success in the game.
I gotta say, good thing i'm no GM, not sure i'd have the willpower to take a dman with a top 3 pick.
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I agree with this. In recent history, top 3 picked forwards have proven to be far more helpful to their teams than top 3 picked d-men. Hence if we had won the lottery (or picked top 3), my list would be Reinhart, Bennett, Ekblad, Dal Colle, Draisaitl.
I think we should be drafting d-men with 2nd rounders, or any additional 1st rounders we can manage to pick up along the way. But that first pick should go towards the high end forward before the defenseman, unless we're talking about a guy of a Seth Jones caliber.
Perhaps I overvalued Ekblad a bit when we still had a small chance of drafting 1st, because the chance to deny Edmonton kind of sweetened the idea of it.