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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
Picking Yakupov 1st overall when the next 14 players taken were either centres or defensemen is a MacTavish blunder that comes to mind.
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Um, Yakupov was a consensus first overall pick. The only other guy they could reasonably have taken was Ryan Murray and Murray hasn't exactly been lights out at the NHL level. You take what the draft gives you when you're picking first overall. I don't fault him for that decision at all.