Wheeler: Every NHL team's best draft of the last 20 years - The Athletic

Ah, revisionist history. The lifeblood of every hockey fan. The rage-inducing coulda, shoulda, wouldas. Deep down, we all love to complain. Sports fans are bellyachers by nature.

And there are no bigger what-could-have-beens than the ones that come with the draft. When an NHL general manager makes a trade, we rarely know what else was available, who else they could have acquired, or why they bought or sold at the price that they did. But we know the draft results. It’s as simple as taking the guy who become better than the guy you actually took. Right? Right!? Right!?!?

This week, across two days, I’ll dive into the best and worst of every team’s draft history across the last 20 years, detailing my case for every team’s greatest triumphs and their largest failures — and come to some conclusions about the overall draft performance of each team along the way (hint: some teams have had several legendary classes, while others have struggled...

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