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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It's not as though most of the rest of the teams in the league wouldn't have taken him 1st or 2nd overall. This falls on Edmonton's appallingly bad player development.
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A big factor you're missing is they should have been worrying about their blue-line at that time. Whether it be via trade or trade down.
It was a horrible pick for them under and circumstances, and one mistake in a long line of many in (poorly) building that awful team.