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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The absence of 2nd round picks was a problem, but the they also busted a really high number of 1sts:
From 2004 to 2008 they had 5 1sts and out of that got Michael Backlund.
Nemisz, Chucko, Irving, and Pelech all busted and they didn't even get anything in terms of trade from those 4.
That's god-awful.
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Yeah typically there's always going to be a few teams snooping around other teams 1st rounders that haven't flourished as reclamation projects but all four of those guys weren't tradeable and even after being released or put on waivers not a single team brought one of them in (I realize Pelech eventually got a look from the Sharks). You really can't draft any worse in the first round when you pick guys that can't make your team and don't even get a sniff with a single team immediately after being released.