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Originally Posted by driveway
Serious question: in a redraft of 1995, do Iginla and Kiprusoff go first and second?
Iginla goes first for sure, the only competition for Kipper going second looks to be Shane Doan. I think Kipper goes ahead of Marc Savard, Peter Sykora, Wade Redden and JS Giguere pretty easily.
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Redrafts of course are fantasy because of the individual player and team situations at that time and a couple years down the road dictating how the player develops depending on who he plays with, how the team does, the coaches etc and just timing luck or lack of luck can dictate so much about how the player develops physically and mentally for the rest of his career, especially ones that are used to being stars or top players on their junior teams.
Goalies especially so. Kiprusoff was third string in SJ when traded, after really struggling the year before as a chance to be the starter when Nabokov went down. And he'd been on the farm for SJ for a few years before that. He may have gone back to Finland if the Flames didn't get him when they did.
Giguere won a Cup but he probably wouldn't have ended up in Anaheim when he did if he didn't start his career and go through all he did with the sad sack Flames.