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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This list is pretty arbitrary. Take for example the history of just the #3 picks:
· Carolina's #3 was Jack Johnson, who didn't ever play for the team.
· One of Chicago's two #3's was Cam Barker, who was a marginal pick, and had a pretty limited role on their first cup win.
· Chris Gratton was one of TB's two #3s, and their other #3, Alexandr Svitov played only 11 games in their Stanley Cup winning year before he was traded to Columbus.
So really, the only #3 pick who has had any sort of tangible impact on his team's Stanley Cup win in the past ten years is Jonathan Toews. I suspect that if the Flames never again draft higher than #4, and if they manage to win another Cup at some point during Sam Bennett's career, then the same list could be compiled to show identical results, but for teams that have drafted in the top-four at least once.
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This is fair enough, I was just curious to see and slow day at work haha. Yes the top 3 vs top 4 was pretty arbitrary. Though I will say that just because a high pick player was traded, doesn't mean they didn't have an impact (ie. the players they got in return could have contributed).