salbutera
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- Sep 10, 2019
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I’m too lazy to look for it, but I had posted a while back the success rate of top-5 picks ending up actually materializing into long term NHL regulars let alone top-6F / top-4D and it was a mediocre rate of successThose guys are the exception, not the rule
So no it’s not an exception, best players in a draft class are more often not chosen near the top of the draft, let alone 1st round