Moving up 21 spots, winger Nick Foligno goes seventh overall to the New York Islanders in this hypothetical redoing of the 2006 draft in the first round. Foligno is one of the few remaining players from this draft class who are still active playing in the NHL today, and he is one of just four players from 2006 who have played over 1,200 career regular season games.
The Islanders' original seventh overall pick in the 2006 draft, Kyle Okposo, was a very good contributor for the Islanders in the top-six forward group for nearly a decade. But he didn't have as long a career as Foligno, and he hasn't produced as consistently for as long in the NHL.
The first goalie pick in this redraft from 2006 is Semyon Varlamov, going eighth overall to the Phoenix Coyotes. Moving up 15 spots to be picked in the top 10 by the Coyotes, Varlamov would give Phoenix a hypothetical potent one-two punch in net alongside Ilya Bryzgalov for the foreseeable future.
Varlamov is the only goalie from the 2006 draft class who has won 250 career games and played over 600 games.
The Coyotes' original eighth overall pick in the top 10 of the 2006 draft in the first round, center Peter Mueller, was the only forward picked in the lottery in this class who didn't play over 300 career regular season games.
Instead of picking center James Sheppard ninth overall, the Minnesota Wild select power forward Milan Lucic just inside the top 10 in this redoing of the 2006 draft lottery. Lucic played over 1,000 career games and had five 20-goal seasons in his NHL career. That's not to mention him winning a Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011.
Sheppard was the only forward picked in the 2006 draft lottery who didn't score 100 career points in the regular season in the NHL.
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