for a redraft, i'd go:
1. coffey, because he is the most special player in the draft. i think you always take the unicorn because you can find a superstar center, you can find a 50 goal winger, but only twice in a lifetime will you find a guy who can create the kind of offense that coffey can.
2. savard vs kurri is tough. i go with savard very slightly because even though i think kurri is a superstar wherever he plays, and probably a franchise player almost anywhere other than edmonton, i don't think see him as a guy who strings together 120-130 point seasons and challenges for art rosses in a gretzky/mario-less league.
3. that said, man kurri is hard to pass up at #2. 50 goal/100 point scorer with selke-level defense and the ability to play center. probably every bit the unicorn coffey was, just not quite as high end.
4. barry pederson. this guy kept up with savard and hawerchuk offensively and was the most complete player of the three at an early age, before his big surgery. averaged 106 in his first three seasons (and 51 points in 31 playoff games), then he was never the same player again.
i guess there was no avoiding that tumor, it wasn't a freak accident, but still, what a player. i've heard him compared to sakic in both style and ability.
actually, i kind of think of pederson like trevor linden, insofar as even after he's fallen off a cliff, he still has so much value that you want him around so you can trade him. cam neely and the horrendous canucks' first round pick in the '87 draft... though if they'd taken the canucks' pick in the weaker '86 draft, i'm guessing they would have picked brian leetch given that they took another new englander, craig janney, with their own pick in that draft.
5. larry murphy. i'm not super high on murphy, really, and even though obviously he is one of the greatest PP point men ever, i don't like him as your number one defenseman. but you can't argue with results.
6. steve larmer, 7. brent sutter. i think sutter was the better defensive player but i like larmer because he had higher offensive upside. both great glue guys.
8. craig ludwig. same spot in the draft as his future teammates/proteges richard matvichuk and derian hatcher were taken.
9. hakan loob. he didn't last long, but he was very good when he was here.
10. bernie nicholls. clearly a really high level offensive talent, and he played forever, but i just liked loob more than him. loob just seemed more competitive.
11-13. andy moog, don beaupre, kelly hrudey, probably in that order but i'm not super sure about that. to me, moog was the most dependable and beaupre had the highest ceiling but also lowest floor.
14. dave babych
15. mike bullard. kind of the dave babych of forwards, but without the long career. a gritty player and big offensive talent, but with a reputation for being terrible defensively. a forgotten scorer, equally adept leading a terrible team (50 goals on the pre-mario penguins) and a powerhouse (100 points on the '88 flames). bonus points for being brett hull's first center, with john tonelli on the LW-- now there's three guys you forgot were ever flames.
16-18. normand rochefort, steve kasper, troy murray, in any order really. all great role players you'd love to have on your team. savard, larmer, and murray is quite a nice draft for the blackhawks.
19. patrick sundstrom
20. craig muni. but a part of me liked the other member of edmonton's 1987 d-corps retool, reijo ruotsalainen, here, but from what i understand if you think babych was bad in his own end, reijo is a whole other adventure. if he had loob's well-roundedness, then i might overlook his short NHL career.