I love both. Apples and oranges and I pick both to my fruit basket. As should any team.
Compiling a team should start from a franchise D. When you have that developing, you still get to pick high, next one is a franchise center, once you have that developing you have a maximum of two more seasons until these picks start paying dividends in the league standings, and within these seasons you need to pick the wingers.
Well, basically you could start with a goalie and then go through this list, but since it is a crapshoot, you could end up picking goalies through a decade and not one panning out.
But you need both. A Matthews with a Laine. And I think many team USA fans would like seeing Matthews with a similar level goal scoring winger as Laine in this tournament.
I would have loved to see Edmonton pick in the top 2. If they picked 1st that could have seen Laine go first. (the BPA at first glance seems like it's Matthews, but there are some things that make the future a bit hazy, like Laine's crazy development curve after getting through that injury. Also, picking BPA isn't always the right way to go with the highest picks as you can't always rely on the trade value being the real value).