Before the NHL Draft a common practice is to redraft previous years. Naturally, the thought is that with hindsight you’ll draft differently — you’ll draft better. When people, or entities, redraft based entirely on statistics, they often fail to take into account the entire impact a player has made on a team.
The NHL recently released a redraft of 2011. In the real draft, the Edmonton Oilers used their first-overall selection to choose center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. He’s maybe not been quite the player they were hoping for with a first-overall pick, though he was on-pace for a career season this year.