Your sarcasm is pathetic.Forwards only placements of the glorious offensive threat that is Mark Osborne:
From 1982 to 1990: 75th, 130th, 105th, 294th*, 150th, 119th, 71st, 111th, 46th
* - never lower than 170th, eh?
After 1990: 201st, 207th, 206th, 230th, 343rd
As for Osborne being "one of the nhl's oldest players" in the 90s:
111th, 109th, 75th, 64th, 52nd - hardly some Mathusalem.
37 players born in his birth year (1961) played 1+ season after he retired.
34 played 2+
22 played 3+
17 played 4+
7 played 5+
6 played 6+
3 played 7+
The winners being Messier and Larionov, who played 9+. But you'll never guess who finished 3rd in this race...
Also you should read further before challenging his statement because you are using his "294th* placement in a year he was injured and missed the majority of the season. You seemed to ignore this from seventies post: "Over a nine season period (injury shortened 1985 excluded)."
Not sure why you have this issue with him. But calling him an average third liner doesn't change the fact he had over 500 points in over 900 games and provided a defensive presence while playing on both the PP and PK. The fact you are arguing that his resume shouldn't qualify him in this tournament is rather ridiculous. There are plenty of players who went in this draft who were just average at times with a few good seasons.
Even if he was a third liner, it's not easy to record the numbers he did for as long as he did.