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Originally Posted by opendoor
Very good point. A lot of teams have found late round gems by doing leg work that others weren't doing. Calgary's picks in the '80s from the American College system and Detroit's heavy emphasis on European scouting in the '90s paid dividends. Nowadays, those unexplored territories don't really exist. Every team has extensive European and college scouting, so it's a much more level playing field in terms of finding diamonds in the rough. You still get guys like Alex Edler who only 2 scouts actually see play, but for the most part, those days are gone.
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See Colorado and Detroit. Some organizations still manage to find talent. Probably because they have personnel astute enough to recognize it.