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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yeah, Jones was highly thought of too (but the other guys weren't close)
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And yet Jones was drafted behind those other guys who weren't close.
Obviously the Avs got it right, but if you read CP you would have thought that Jones was the consensus number 1. And yet he went fourth. The point was that no, MacKinnon wasn't the undisputed number 1 by the media and fans, but all it matters was how the Avs saw it obviously.
It's sort of like the Kane draft where, despite his success now, there was several players in the Turris ilk that wouldn't have been surprising to go first overall that draft year based on mock drafts, media, central scouting etc.