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Originally Posted by OldDutch
jankowski, etc are all blunders. jankowski simply because he could be had in round 2.
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...Pretty sure they anticipated another team taking him before round 2, I think the Devils at #29 just as they anticipated Montreal taking Poirier before #28. Just the year prior they had lost the chance to draft Kucherov thinking he''d be around in a later round, too, and Gaudreau was a bit of a panic pick in the fourth round too, which I think they were planning on waiting til the sixth round rolled around.
You can't just explicitly state Jankowski "could" be had in round 2 - every team has a different list and feaster played it safe for a player who was high on their OWN list.
EDIT: I dug up the quote:
“I don’t want to share anyone’s business,” said Weisbrod, “but I know he wouldn’t have made it through (the first round). I know at least two teams that would have taken him."