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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Monahan and Tkachuk are in the 80th+ percentile for 6OA picks (over the last ~30 years).
At least 40% of the 4OA's in that span are worse than Bennett. Shocking as it may be, he's damn near the median for that slot.
Since Francis/Yzerman, Backstrom is the best C taken 4OA (then Johansen and Weiss). Pietrangelo, Seth Jones, and Makar are the franchise D-men, and then there are a bunch of good to great wingers, and a bunch of disappointments.
It's anything but a guarantee to get a stud at 4OA. Collectively, our 6, 6, 4 picks are a lot better than one could expect.
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I’d check a few 5OAs for comparison to Bennett as well. Price, Kessel, Schenn, Neiderreiter, Lindholm. Funny though, in Bennett’s draft, you have to drop a few places to get better.