I won't pretend to ever to know more than other scouts when it comes to picks, so I wouldn't criticize any picks (unless they're obviously bad, but even then that's difficult to determine).
However, the only way for us to become competitive and compete for the Cup is for us to get lucky and hit the jackpot BIG TIME with a couple of Lucics, Bergerons, and Subbans with our 2nd and 3rd round picks. We need two of McKegg, Biggs, Blacker, Ross, among other draft picks, to blossom and blow us away. It just seems like otherwise we're going to be mired in mediocrity for forever. We're never, EVER going to be lucky enough to have a 1st-rounder while finishing 29th ever again.