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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I believe it was hyped as a deep draft which was why it was exciting to have three picks in the first round.
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It is turning out to be a pretty solid draft at the top end:
The first 9 picks are all impact players to some degree.
But the quality in the second half of the first isn't great.
I think Feaster pushed a narrative of the importance of firsts, but when those picks are late in the 1st, they aren't really that much better than seconds in terms of probability of netting a player, and unlikelihood of that player being an impact one.
The Iginla deal had to be made.
My beef is that the Bouwmeester one didn't. He was signed for another year, and could have been dealt at the draft, or sometime in the off-season for potentially better value.