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Originally Posted by Mattman
Luke Schenn was #5 in that draft as well.
In fact Doughty and Pietrangelo round out that top 5 so all of them have a cup, pretty cool to see.
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This got me curious about top 5 picks winning the cup. I looked it up, and quite often at least 2 players picked in the to 5 have won the cup, so I figured to limit my criteria, and here is what I found. 2008 is the year of champions! 1984 and 2006 came close.
Looking at the top 5 players in each draft, there was a tonne of players who played for a team that won the next year (or in some cases they were traded away in the middle of that season), also quite a few who went to a team that just won the previous year, but that didn't help them out.
1984 - 4 (1, 2, 3 &5)
1985 - 3 (2, 3 & 5)
2003 - 3 (1, 2 & 3)
2004 - 3 (1, 2 & 4)
2006 - 4 (2, 3, 4 & 5)
2008 - 5 (1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)