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Originally Posted by stuff99
I honestly wished the Canucks picked Valeri Nichushkin over Bo Horvat. Valeri the offense skilled forward rather than the safe two way player the Canucks always seem to draft. We are missing players with flash and Valeri was a project top 6 pick by all accounts that fell.
It's not hindsight but I felt the same way the very day we passed on Kopitar who fell and picked Bourdon over him. Bourdon was projected to be a late 15-20 pick that year I believe but we picked him instead of Kopitar.
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Nichushkin has said that if he doesn't make the team he'd go back to the KHL, doesn't want to play in the AHL.
It's all in who you ask. Sure he may have been a top 6 pick by some accounts, but one GM also had Horvat as high as 4.
