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Originally Posted by Wild GM
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.
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I would bet his value would have continued to increase. Bouwmeester under Hartley was highly effective as a two-way defencemen. I was VERY critical of Bouwmeester under Sutter, and wanted him gone. Under Hartley, he was actually very good.
Had he finished off that shortened season in Calgary, I do believe that the market for him would have been very strong.