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Originally Posted by Poe969
I'm pretty sure Doughty was supposed to be a franchise defenseman too, same with Pronger. I guess sometimes I does turn out well. As for jones, you mentioned the oilers and their drafting; they drafted yakapov and he was supposed to be great too...I guess sometimes they're wrong that way too
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Yeah defensemen at the top of the draft are riskier but when they pay off they become game changers. I don't think the Kings win the cup or have a lot of their success without Doughty. Sure Hall's paid off the the Oilers because he's scored a lot of points but it hasn't translated into wins and if they got a franchise defenseman instead (not that there were any available in that draft) they would probably be further ahead in their rebuild.