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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
If Jankowski was the player we were targetting all along, then we actually got a free second rounder, which is an increase in value.
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Irrelevant to your original point. We could've (and likely would've) made the same move if we had a full seven picks going into the draft.
Either way, it's hard to call it a free second rounder when it comes at the expense of going off the board. You might trust your scouting staff, but NHL first rounders bust at an extremely high rate already and going after a player everyone else clearly has ranked way lower only increases that risk. It's 2013 - other teams were aware of Jankowski and clearly weren't as impressed.