I agree. BUT....
In 2015 our top scorer was Henrique with 43 points. We had absolutely zero offensive fire power.
This was back when we had Larsson, Severson, Merrill and Gelinas. Granted that didn't turn out great either, but at the time it looked above average for the future...
We obviously needed forwards but that doesn't mean you don't draft D men.
Take a look at the 1992 draft...we drafted Jason Smith, Sergie Brylin and Cal Hulse 1,2,3... Two Dmen in the first 3 picks 6 Dmen in total from the 1992 draft..so what?
We had just drafted Niedermeyer #3 overall the year before, we had Stevens, Driver, Daneyko, Fetisov, Kasatonov, Albelin...
In Utica we had Kevin Dean, Myles O'Connor, Brent Severyn, Dean Malkoc Jamie Huscroft...and we still drafted 6 D in 92.
From 1983 to 2000 we drafted at least 1 Dman with one of our top 3 picks 16 out of 18 times... During that time we used one of our top 2 picks on Dmen 12 times and we used our first pick on Dmen 7 times. And we were stacked to hilt with Dmen on the big club that entire time.