Seeing a local boy done good in another market hurts, but the Pittsburgh Penguins had good reason back in 2011 not to draft Brandon Saad.
Ray Shero didn't take Brandon Saad, but you know what, I didn't either.
In the 2011 SB Nation mock draft (which is kinda cool to look back on), Saad didn't go until #30. At #23, when I was picking for the Penguins, I took Rocco Grimaldi. I really wanted Boone Jenner, but he got mock-drafted the pick just before me. I had to move on to Grimaldi, and I justified taking the smaller player specifically over Saad and Nicklas Jensen back then by saying:
Saad and Jensen were the two other players I most strongly considered.