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The Importance Of Early Draft Picks
by Paul on 02/01/08 at 01:59 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
How important is that ability to draft first overall, but especially in the top three? Significant, if you base it on this year’s scoring race. As of Friday, five of the NHL’s top-10 scorers were players chosen first overall in their respective entry drafts (that’d be Alex Ovechkin, Vincent Lecavalier, Ilya Kovalchuk, Sidney Crosby and Joe Thornton) — and a sixth, Jason Spezza went second overall behind Kovalchuk.
If you expand it to the top 20, you’d also find another No. 1 overall — Sundin himself — plus two more No. 2s (Evgeni Malkin and Dany Heatley) and two No. 3s (Marian Gaborik and Henrik Sedin).
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