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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I would say that Nemisz is a very solid bet to be an NHLer - the only question is how good will he be.
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Jury is still out but here we are three years since his draft and he's still not close to being a top 6 nhler. I have no doubt he'll play in the nhl. I'm simply using him to show that outside the top 15 you very rarely get a player that will A - make the nhl within 3 years and B - become an impactful player.
Trading out of the top 15 puts us right back in that situation we've been in for the last 7 years...waiting and waiting for our top picks to either flake out or not turn into anything more then grinders. Unless our drafting is going to somehow go from below league average by a mile to one of the best we won't be plucking anyone who's going to help us in the next year or two out of the back of the first round let alone the second round.
Make a smart pick at 13 and we'll likely have a player on our roster by 2012 or 2013 based on the percentages. Just because its fairly even 10-30 clearly doesn't mean the forwards at the back of the pack are of equal value/skill level as the forwards at 10-15.