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Originally Posted by Trailer Fire
I'm incredibly leery of goalies ranked this high. Who was the last high ranked goalie that turned out? Price? Fleury before that? I don't really want to be a part of Hart or Fitzpatrick. Take a goalie in the 5th or later. Preferably.
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John Gibson, Vasilevsky, Markstrom, Jake Allen, Lehner, Pickard
All goalies that went in the early 2nd (or 1st for Vas) that have turned out decently well
They are a crapshoot and they do take forever but a lot of the most highly regarded young goalies right now were drafted in the 2nd or 3rd (Jon Gillies and Matt Murray were 3rd rounders). I'm not saying we should draft one in the 2nd or 3rd but its not the complete throwaway pick that some people make it out to be. Your chance of finding an NHL starter in the 5th round isn't great. Sure it happens sometimes and people like to point to that but that majority of the most highly regarded young goalies in the NHL or the minors today came from the 1st, 2nd or 3rd.