The quality of this draft starts falling off pretty quickly after the first two or three picks in the 1996 draft class. Instead of picking center Alexandre Volchkov with the fourth overall pick in the first round of the 1996 draft, the Capitals pick longtime two-way journeyman center Matt Cullen.
Cullen was one of just two players from this draft class in '96 who played over 1,500 career regular season games. He's also the only player from this draft class who scored over 700 career points in the regular season.
We also shouldn't overlook the three times Cullen won a Stanley Cup with two different NHL teams, including the Carolina Hurricanes (2006) and back-to-back rings with the Pittsburgh Penguins (2016 and 2017).
Volchkov was the only top-10 pick from this draft class who played under 10 games in the NHL.
Right-winger Dainius Zubrus was originally picked 15th overall in the first round of the '96 draft by the Flyers. He slides up 10 spots to go fifth overall in this first-round redraft to the Dallas Stars.
Zubrus was one of the five players in this draft class who played over 1,000 career regular season games. He ranks fourth in goals (228) and fourth in overall points (591) from this draft class in 1996.
Had Zubrus ended up playing for the Stars after he was drafted in the mid-1990s, he could've won a Stanley Cup in Dallas in 1999.
Despite not being picked in the top three in this hypothetical redraft of the first round of the 1996 draft class in the NHL, Dumont is still worthy of being picked in the top 10 by the Edmonton Oilers.
Dumont is one of just six players from this draft class who scored over 500 career goals. He was a consistent goal-scorer for multiple teams in his dozen-year-long NHL career, scoring 20 goals in six regular seasons in the 2000s decade.
He didn't have the longest career in the NHL, but Dumont was pretty good for the decade he was scoring goals for the top nine forward group for the Sabres and Nashville Predators in the 2000s and early 2010s.