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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
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.
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Declaring him the best player was dumb...the fact that we can only name a handful of better players with hindsight is telling though. Wasn't the worst pick in history or even that drafts first round.