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Originally Posted by ThirdManIn
Pickard does seem like he is going to be a bust. I wonder how Columbus fans are feeling after drafting Filatov over Wilson, Hodgson, Bailey, Myers, Boedker, Sbisa, and Eberle.
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Sbisa was drafted with the pick we traded to get Umberger. If we hadn't traded for Umby, he's who I wanted at that pick. Take one damn guess.
(OTOH, Umby is love, even if he is having an asstastic year right now.)
Kvetching about draft hindsight is generally verboten in CBJ land, because there are so many examples that we've actually gone through that period of actualization wherein we realize that sometimes Scouting Doesn't Work Properly.
I mean, seriously, Filatov for Meyers (or anyone else there, altho Meyers is the popular kvetch pick like Eberle is here)? Doesn't hold a candle to Brule for Kopitar (also a candidate for Most Perverse Revisionist History Argument EVAR) or trading our '04 pick (used on Andrew Ladd) down to select Alexandre Picard (the AHL forward, not the defenseman).
And 2003? Don't even get anyone started on the legend of how MacLean overruled his own scouting staff on the Zherdev pick - supposedly they wanted this kid named Phaneuf. And then there was our second round pick that year, used on Fritsche (who's in the Swiss League now). Sometimes folks like to point out the two guys who were drafted three picks after both of those - respectively, Ryan Suter and Shea Weber.
Huh. How 'bout that.
Regrets don't work, y'all.