NHL.com will take a look back at the NHL Draft from five, 10 and 20 years ago this week, leading up to the 2014 NHL Draft at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. How would those drafts look today?

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since the 2004 NHL Draft gave us three of the best players in the game today.

There was a bit of a delay for the elite crop selected that year in Raleigh, N.C. Players had to wait to make their NHL debut due to the lockout that cancelled the 2004-05 season.

The 2004 draft saw history made when Russian players were selected with the first two picks, the only time that's happened. It marked the final year the draft went longer than seven rounds; it went nine, and there was talent throughout.

Those first two players have gone on to have careers some members of the Hockey Hall of Fame would envy, and the best could be yet to come, with neither close to his 30th birthday.

Not every pick reached that level of stardom. So with 10 years of hindsight, how would that draft go if the players were made available today?

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