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Originally Posted by Kipper_3434
Missing out on kucherov and Point still hurts. Kucherov because we reportedly really wanted to draft him, and Point because many hardcore fans identified him as a no brainer pick for us.
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I think the Point one hurts especially because there could easily have been another pick (or two) in that range if Burke hadn't been stubborn about Cammi's value.
Also simply that we struck out with picks 54 (H Smith) and 64 (B Hickey) when there was a lot of silver and a bit of gold in those hills:
55 Montour
56 Donato
58 Dvorak
65 Lammikko
67 Foegele
68 Rinat Valiev (ended up the main thing we traded Kulak for)
76 Elvis M
78 Sorokin
79 Point
Arvidsson, Devon Toews, Heinen, Forsling, Lindblom, and Labanc also all went before CGY picked again at 175.
We got Pick 83 by trading Stempniak in the spring...turned it into Bollig at the draft.
Pick 94 had been traded in the fall for Colborne (fair enough)
Pick 124 had been traded the previous summer for Russell (fair enough I guess)
2009-2015 = every single year was a pick deficit except for 2013 (1sts for Bouw and Iggy - though even that year our 2nd (36OA) was long gone in the Bourqe/Cammi deal, and our 4th was used for Corbin Knight).
Tre certainly dug the hole deeper, but he was already buried to the waist before he started.