Just hearing Sbisa's name makes me sad. It will be a fist pumping happy day when he is not on my team.
Yeah Karlsson looks like the best player from that draft. And yes I have argued this before. But this sort of thing can happen when teams are focused on centers.
Honestly though, such poor drafting when looking in hindsight and not taking our positional needs into account:
2011: Took Jensen, could have had Gibson or Saad (2nd rounders)
2010: Ballard deal, could have had Kuznetsov or Justin Faulk (2nd rounder)
2009: Took Schroeder, could have had ROR (2nd rounder)
2008: Took Hodgson, could have had Myers, Karlsson, Carlsson, Eberle, Josi (2nd rounder), Hamonic, Stepan (2nd rounders- passed on both twice)
2007: Took White, could have had PK Subban, Simmonds (2nd rounders passed on both twice)
2006: Took Grabner, could have had Giroux, Lucic (2nd rounder)
2005: Bourdon (RIP), could have had Kopitar 1 pick later, could have had Quick, Bishop or Letang in the 2nd round but we took Raymond
2004: Would actually keep the Schneider pick
2003: Took Kesler, could have had Perry, Bergeron (2nd rounder), Weber (2nd rounder)
2002: Traded back for Linden, could have had Steen, Ward, Keith (2nd rounder that we passed on twice)
That's pretty poor and somewhat unfair in judging in hindsight, but missing on that many players while having only one of these guys we took left in the organization is pretty piss poor drafting. I mean personally there's only the Schneider pick I approve of in hindsight and the Bourdon pick as we never got to see him in his prime. Obviously if we had changed any of those picks our seeding in the following draft would be different but could you imagine if we could have gotten:
ROR-Kopitar-Giroux
Saad-Kuznetsov-Bergeron
XXX-Stepan-Simmonds
Keith-Karlsson
XXX-Subban
Quick
Looks like a damn allstar team and solves the RHD crisis we have been in for years