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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Management certainly did the opposite.
However, there was a segment of the fan base that actively cheered for the draft lottery, with slogans like ‘Fail for Nail’. (I'm so glad they were rewarded by actually getting Nail Yakupov, when they might easily have ended up with a good hockey player.)
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It was harder than most years to get a good player at the top of the draft in 2012…
Yakupov, Murray, Galchenyuk, Rielly, Hamphus Lindholm, Dumba, Pouliot, Trouba, Koekoek.
That’s the worst top-10 of the last 20 years.