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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Holding the right draft position does not exclude a team from being stupid. What Montreal did was stupid. They drafted for positional need when all things weren't equal. It should always be BPA, or when all things equal C>D>W.
Drafting Kotkaniemi when Tkachuk (better) and Hughes (better) were right there was just bad management, and no matter the pick position you just can't overcome being bad at managing a hockey team...unless you're the Oilers and you get McDavid and Draisaitl, two talents so good that you can in fact overcome stupidity.
Consensus (I know, doesn't exist) had Kotkaniemi back at like 10th overall that year. What Montreal did was stupid.
From the hockey writers consensus, 2018:
1. Dahlin
2. Svechnikov
3. Zadina
4. Tkachuk
5. Hughes
6. Wahlstrom
7. Dobson
8. Bouchard
9. Boqvist
10. Kotkaniemi
How the draft played out:
1. Dahlin
2. Svechnikov
3. Kotkaniemi - haha MTL
4. Tkachuk
5. Hayton - haha ARZ (consensus: 11)
6. Zadina
7. Hughes
8. Boqvist
9. Kravtsov (consensus: 19)
10. Bouchard
11. Wahlstrom
12. Dobson
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Cool, I’m talking about Alex Galchenyuk.