Since about 1990 we just don't draft well in general - I don't think it's limited to just d-men. Especially during a 20 year period from about 1990 until 2010.
Stillman, Titov, Gauthier, Morris, Lydman, Saprykin, Kobasew, Moss, Lombardi, Nystrom, Phaneuf, Backlund, Brodie, Ferland.
Probably the only players drafted in those 20 years that had a real "impact" to the team and played in our Top 9 FWDs or Top 4 D.
If anything our drafting of d-men has been better than our drafting of FWDs. But both were atrocious during that 20 year period.
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