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Cactus Jack · 11-04-2009, 11:23 AM

I hate that weak argument that the draft is a TOTAL crapshoot. If it were all purely luck there would be no scouts, no budet for scouting, no travelling for games, no preparation and teams would pick blindly on a list of players. The fact remains that yes, not all teams make great picks 100% of the time but the good team consistently find gems in later rounds and make their first and second rounders count no matter what number they draft from (Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, etc) every year.

We can either get better scouts or continue to expect mediocrity in drafting and have high hopes for the future. Yes, Dion is great and Boyd, Pardy Prust are nice (Nystrom and Moss were drafted by Button) but when that is all you can hang your hat, we are legitimately a middle of the pack drafting team unless we finally have some high end players develop.

11-04-2009, 11:23 AM	#35
Cactus Jack First Line Centre Join Date: Sep 2008 Exp:	I hate that weak argument that the draft is a TOTAL crapshoot. If it were all purely luck there would be no scouts, no budet for scouting, no travelling for games, no preparation and teams would pick blindly on a list of players. The fact remains that yes, not all teams make great picks 100% of the time but the good team consistently find gems in later rounds and make their first and second rounders count no matter what number they draft from (Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, Washington, etc) every year. We can either get better scouts or continue to expect mediocrity in drafting and have high hopes for the future. Yes, Dion is great and Boyd, Pardy Prust are nice (Nystrom and Moss were drafted by Button) but when that is all you can hang your hat, we are legitimately a middle of the pack drafting team unless we finally have some high end players develop.