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Originally Posted by Groot
The NHL didn't work out so well for Tim Erixon so not sure what point you're trying to make
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We drafted Erixon with our 1st round pick which we could have used to pick a player who would have signed with us.
We trade him for 2 2nd round picks (Markus Granlund and Tyler Wotherspoon) and Roman Horak. None of whom worked out for us.
So great, Lindros got Quebec/Colorado a haul. We picked a player who was the best player on our list, he doesn’t sign and we end up with busted picks and a busted prospect. We draft someone other than Erixon who would have signed and developed and we are probably further ahead. Not saying he was next on our list, but Marcus Johansson went after Erixon and he’s carved out a nice nhl career, part of that as a C, which was an organizational need at the time of the draft.
And Tom was on purpose as many of us long time CPers refer to him as.