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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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I don't entirely agree. He was not a unanimous number 1. Leafs had Reily first, Flames had Galch, the Oil themselves had Murray until their owner overrided the choice.
Don't let them off the hook. It was an epically bad choice. And it was then.