what most people have to realize is that there are only a handful of "stars" in this league. a "sakic" character comes around once every 5-7 years at MOST. just cause nj moved up and stole him, doens't mean parise is bound to be sakic like in the nhl nor that he has the potential to be. sure, the devils want him to be like that, but chances are, he's not going to reach that level. first rounders do NOT equal potential franchise centers. if they were being pumped out every year, we wouldn't have 3rd or 4th line players in the nhl anymore, cause every team would have so many "franchise" players.
not many teams have franchise players and some even go years without one. if parise really was a franchise center, Joe Sakic bound player he probably would have been taken prior to staal, who has been said to be like ron francis. hmm, sakic or francis... sorry, i'd take sakic.
the rule of thumb in a draft is if you draft 3 bonifide nhl players in one year, that draft is considered a success. if you get one franchise center, you pretty much stole the whole draft. i'm not so sure nj did that quite yet.