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Originally Posted by Pointman
There were seven NHL teams, who drafted from 14th to 20th, and they ALL thought there are better players available than Jankowski. I'm not debating the pick itself (as I never even heard of him), but the negativity towards the pick is not baseless and it's not an opinion of some random dudes on the forum. It's opinion of SEVEN NHL organizations.
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That's the point of trading down... You think you can still get your guy because you value him more than other teams. If they knew the team picking 20th wanted Mark, they would've drafted him at 14. Feaster said as much.
Instead, he gets a second round pick that's actually higher than the one we sent Buffalo in the Regehr trade, and STILL gets his man. You'd think we'd appreciate that what with all the positive talk about trusting management that's been going on recently, but apparently doing EXACTLY what most of us want (philosophically speaking) still isn't good enough.