You missed the point. As armchair QBs we can all disagree with decisions. Your logic of saying moving up at some point previously and it didn’t work out is absolutely meaningless in terms of this discussion.
The Rangers ranked Schneider very highly. After the Devils missed out on D guys at #7 it was fairly obvious they would be interested in the last of the four D guys that were considered first rounders. It would have been irresponsible by Gorton and JD not to make an attempt to move up and get their guy. I think we all saw that in the Reaction from JD.
The point of saying other teams then passed on other players that some of us armchair QBs thought should be taken because they happened to play C is that there were no sure fire players available at that point in the draft. A recipe for disaster is taking players you don’t rank as highly because they happen to play a position of need. Whoever we took probably won’t be in the discussion for 2 or 3 years.
btw for what it is worth, I had Devils fans texting me saying we stole their guy. Again, stealing any other team’s guy is meaningless unless you have him ranked very highly. It is what fans do.