David Pastrnak has 100 points in 77 games this season for Boston, costs $11.25 million, and was picked 25th in a draft where 24 teams convinced themselves they had found something better.

They were wrong. Every single one of them.

This is not a small miss. This is the kind of draft blunder that haunts front offices for a generation, the scouting equivalent of leaving a $50 bill on the sidewalk and stepping over it because you were busy looking at something shinier.

Twenty-four picks. Twenty-four teams. Twenty-four chances to take the player who is now leading this entire class in scoring twelve years later.

Where every 2014 pick stands next to the man Boston grabbed 25th

Leon Draisaitl goes first in this redraft and that is correct. Ninety-seven points in 65 games this season, the best pure center of his generation, $14 million well spent in Edmonton. Nobody disputes Draisaitl at the top.

But Pastrnak is right there at second, and the gap between those two and everyone else in this class is significant.

William Nylander sits third at 79 points in 65 games for Toronto. Nikolaj Ehlers fourth, now in Carolina, 71 points across all 82 games this season with a +8 rating. Both are legitimate franchise players.

Dylan Larkin lands fifth. Thirty-four goals, 9 game-winning goals, $8.7 million in Detroit. Solid case for higher.

Then Shesterkin, Point, Sorokin, Toews, and Ekblad round out the bottom half.

Aaron Ekblad went first overall. He has 26 points in 72 games this season. First. Overall.

That number lands differently once you understand what Boston pulled off 24 spots later in that exact same draft.

The Bruins did not stumble into Pastrnak. They identified a teenager from the Czech Republic with an elite shot and the hockey sense to grow into something special. That is real scouting. The 24 teams ahead of Boston just did not see it.

One hundred points. Twenty-fifth pick. Twelve years in.

The 2014 draft did not belong to the team with the first pick. It belonged to the team with the 25th.