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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Detroit has done some really awkward drafting. Passing on Quinn Hughes for Zadina and then reaching for a D-man the following year. Yeah, Zadina will probably end up a pretty good goal scorer and that German d-man is apparently pretty good too but they had the kid in their back yard. They saw him more than anyone and couldn't see this coming? A solid goal-scoring winger can be pretty easy to find in the draft, but a #1 dman is usually much harder to land.
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IIRC there was a decent contingent of the fan base who was lamenting this as soon as it happened.
On the other hand, Zadina seemed like he was slipping a bit from his top 3 position in the draft. I wonder if he's going on a similar trajectory to Puljujarvi?