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Originally Posted by Bingo
Not if you read through the old topic he posted.
Jankowski gets some love. Only one mention for Valisevsky. None for the other players that everyone covets with hind sight.
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Bob McKenzie’s final draft ranking had Teravainen (7), Maatta (10), Wilson (18), Hertl (19), Vasilevskiy (24), Laughton (28), and Pearson (29).
Any one of those picks would’ve been acceptable at 14, and anyone still available at 21 would’ve still justified trading down to pick up a 2nd.
When you pick the 42nd ranked skater (IIRC), declare he’s going to be the best player in the draft in a decade, and 9 years later he’s not even in the league, it’s just another example of Feaster and Weisbrod trying to be clever.
Only they were never clever. It wasn’t clear they even knew the rules of their own sport.