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Originally Posted by Hackey
Here are the 4th overall picks since 2000. Based on that list I think you'd be pretty happy landing a player like Dustin Brown or Mike Richards. Quite a few quality players but no definitive franchise players really. Since will likely be taking a forward a top 6 forward would be a successful pick in my eyes. A legit first liner would be a home run.
2000: Rostislav Klesla
2001: Stephen Weiss
2002: Joni Pitkanen
2003: Nikolai Zherdev
2004: Andrew Ladd
2005: Benoit Pouliot
2006: Nicklas Backstrom
2007: Thomas Hickey
2008: Alex Pietrangelo
2009: Evander Kane
2010: Ryan Johansen
2011: Adam Larsson
2012: Griffin Reinhart
2013: Seth Jones
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Originally Posted by Hackey
Here are the 5th place picks since 2000 which kinda gives similar results. But ya I think the main thing to be taken from it is that if we are able to land a serviceable top 6 forward then were doing alright because the pick is definitely no slam dunk. We don't need to land a superstar we just need to make it count.
2000: Raffi Torres
2001: Stanislav Chistov
2002: Ryan Whitney
2003: Thomas Vanek
2004: Blake Wheeler
2005: Carey Price
2006: Phil Kessel
2007: Karl Alzner
2008: Luke Schenn
2009: Brayden Schenn
2010: Nino Niederreiter
2011: Ryan Strome
2012: Morgan Reilly
2013: Elias Lindholm
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Best guy in the draft from 4 to 10
2000: Scott Hartnell (6)
2001: Mikko Koivu (6)
2002: Joffrey Lupul (7)
2003: Ryan Sutur (7)
2004: Andrew Ladd (4)
2005: Carey Price (5)
2006: Nicklas Backstrom (4)
2007: Logan Couture (9)
2008: Alex Pietrangelo (4)
2009: Oliver Ekmann-Larson (6)
2010: Jeff Skinner (7)
2011: Sean Couturier (8)
2012: Morgan Rielly (5)
2013: Seth Jones (4)
Some of those are debatable. And the jury is still out on the more recent drafts. But I agree with a premise. Not every draft has a game breaker in the 4 to 10 range. The drafts where they exist rarely have more than one.