RW90
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Obviously its easy to go back and say what if but the majority of these draft choices were thought to be the right pick at the time.
Faulk instead of Tyler Pitlick- Faulk 12pts his draft year USNDP / Pitlick 62 pts and looks like potential top 9 player hard to know Pitlick was going to have injury problems
Risto instead of Nurse- Tough but fair, EDM lacked/lacks RHD and should have taken a chance on Risto
Tyler Toffoli instead of Martin Marincin- EDM severly lacked defensive players and needed to focus on acquiring players to compliment Hall & Ebs
Scheifele instead of RNH- Nuge was terrific his draft year and i will defend his pick at #1 because he is a great NHL player when healthy
-Kucherov instead of David Musel- Edmonton sucks at drafting Russians and part of me thinks the Musil pick was name/family based partly
Filip Forsberg instead of Fail Yakupov- This pick was made by the owner, it has been said numerous times Katz got involved and demanded Yak. Ryan Murray most likely would have been EDMs selection
-Gostisbehere instead of Khaira- Edmonton and Philly both are lucky to have NHL players come from the 3rd round, the player the missed in this round is Colton Parayko who was in their backyard (Fort Mac)
-Matt Murray instead of Mitchell Moroz- Moroz was an awful pick, he was taken on Oil King status. Edmonton had Dubnyk in 2011/2012 so i dont fault them for not taking a goalie but they needed to not **** up the 31st pick