The Globe and Mail

There was a theory that the Montreal Canadiens might trade up in the draft in order to select Angelo Esposito, the No. 8 ranked skater from Quebec, who won a Memorial Cup in 2006 with the Remparts of Patrick Roy and was the top-ranked player in Central Scouting's mid-season rankings.
Central Scouting obviously saw something they didn't like in Esposito's game and apparently so did the Canadiens. They stayed put at No. 12 in the first round and then selected the No. 11th ranked player instead - Ryan McDonagh, from Cretin-Derham high school in Minnesota. McDonagh was named Minnesota's Mr. Hockey of 2007 and is bound for the University of Wisconsin next year.
The knock against Esposito, according to one amateur scout, is his inconsistency; and his unwillingness to play physically or to play in traffic.