the Tkachuk comparison is hilarious, but it does bring up the fact that there are a few draft comparisons that should be fun to track. The lopsided ones are:
2016: Puljujarvi (4), Tkachuk (6)
2014: Draisaitl (3), Bennett (4)
but some of the others are interesting too:
2013: Nurse (7), Monahan (6)
2017: Yamamoto (22), Valimaki (16)
2020: Holloway (14), Zary (24)
The average pick for EDM with those 5 is 10, while the avg CGY pick is 11, so essentially, the oil are picking right in front of the Flames for each of the 5 years (on avg).
Pretty interesting when you look at the 3 early ones, you have
Draisaitl + Nurse + Puljujarvi vs Tkachuk + Monahan + Bennett
And of course, there is also this one...
2011: Nugent-Hopkins (1), Gaudreau (104)
but that is a different conversation.
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