Imagine if our 2011 draft had gone Connor Murphy Richard Rakell Viktor Rask or Nikita Kucherov...then Saad instead of our picks McNeill Danault Clendening the Saad? OR maybe we would have taken a goalie at #36 instead of Clendening ...So what if we took Murphy Rakell Gibson then Saad? IF we had Gibson Maybe CC Would be traded for cap savings leading to other options? OR what of we just went all forwards? Rakell Namestikov Rask or Kucherov then Saad who all other GMS had avoided and only Stan riled on at #43 because he attributed Saad's poor play in the 2nd half of his draft year to lingering effects from his injury ...even though ceres to play Saad did not play as well as he did prior to injury and so many GMS thought if he was playing again he was at full capability to play..I guess only Stan had a hunch the effects lingered to impede him and so scouts did not view the real potential in Saad in those 2nd half viewings. Even so Stan was not quite certain of his hunch so he did not take the risk on Saad (who played so poorly even I said avoid him like everyone else ) until that 4 3rd pick and probably only gambled that because he was so thrilled with his first 3 picks (all 3 of which I did not like ) and coukd gamble with the 4th selection at that relatively late #43 dot.
ANYWAY looking at what we coukd have drafted and what we did get..we pretty well botched that draft in my opinion.
