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Originally Posted by SebC
He is our highest draft draft pick ever (well, since the team moved to Calgary anyways) so there is no reason why statements like these shouldn't be literally true.
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You're right, a part of it is that it's our highest pick ever.
The bigger piece for me is that they made the right pick and we got a guy who was as good as the guy who went 1st overall in my opinion. The temptation was there to take a poorer player who was a better fighter.
For me there were 3 guys who were neck and neck for 1st overall and to see the flames land one is kind of surreal. I liked Draitsaitl too, but for me not in the same class as the top 3, the oilers only took him because they now have to be size obsessed. He is a very good player but too poor of a skater to be in the same class as the other 3. The Oilers poor team building decisions jus keep paying off.