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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
2 stood out to me. Toronto with no one over 1000 as already pointed out and Oli Jokinen the highest on Florida. They haven't had a very good franchise.
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Fla has had pretty bad luck at the draft. Just missed Kariya in their first one and ended up with Rob Neidermayer . Got the first overall the next year, but a really weak draft and they took Jovo (a proper pick). Picked Radek Dvorak one before missing on Iggy the next year (but at number 10 it's kind of a pick 'em).
Then they were not bad enough to get good picks for a while. When they dropped again, their high picks were in weak drafts (01, 02) or they were one or two picks behind a much better player (Staal versus Horton, Wheeler versus Olesz).