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Originally Posted by TheOnlyBilko
I understand all of this. Like I said "Yak was pretty much the best player available" for that draft at that time. Columbus wanted Yakupov in that draft, they were upset they lost out on him at the time.
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Did they though? They had the worst history with Russians with Zherdev and Filatov as complete busts. I don't know if they would have been comfortable taking another.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sport...iew/55641358/1
Even scouting agencies could see the Oilers should have traded down and taken a defenseman lol.