Rather than picking defenseman Thomas Hickey fourth overall in this redoing of the 2007 draft lottery in the first round, the Kings pick longtime San Jose Sharks captain and multi-time All-Star selection center Logan Couture fourth overall.
As one of the bigger draft busts in recent memory for the Kings, Hickey never actually played a game wearing the black and silver. He went on to have a pretty serviceable career for around a decade in the NHL on the blue line with the New York Islanders.
Even though the thought of Couture ever donning a Kings uniform is weird to picture now after he played multiple decades with the rival Sharks organization, the potential of having both him and Anze Kopitar manning the top six at the center position is too good for the team to pass up.
The Washington Capitals originally picked defenseman Karl Alzner with the fifth overall selection in the 2007 draft lottery. While Alzner was a serviceable defenseman for the Capitals for nine seasons, there is another defenseman who should go in this spot to the nation's capital.
Instead of picking Alzner fifth overall in this reimagining of the 2007 draft lottery, the Capitals make Ryan McDonagh the second blue-liner picked in this redraft nearly 20 years later.
Sliding up 20 picks to go to the Edmonton Oilers in the top 10 in this reimagining of the 2007 draft lottery in the first round, winger David Perron deserves to go earlier in this redraft.
Sam Gagner was a very consistent and underrated center for the Oilers for 10 seasons, and he ended up playing over 1,000 career games. But Perron is one of only three forwards from this draft class in 2007 who played over 1,200 career regular season games and scored over 800 total points.
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