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Originally Posted by GGG
But one place where more picks gives diminishing returns is if you believe you have good scouting staff. If you theoretically have correctly ranked all of the players in the draft correctly (never happens) then each additional draft pick nets you a slightly worse player. Now that doesn't change the fact that you get an extra player. I don't think anyone is disputing that extra picks are better. But the quality of the extra picks is theoretically not as good as the first pick.
So if you are adding extra picks you are better adding them over multiple drafts rather than all at once. This also spreads out when you have to make decisions on players, when their entry level deals expire, when they become ufa's etc.
So if we go full fire sale here I would rather have a few extra seconds this year and a few extra next year then all of them in once year.
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Sure, I wont argue with any of that. But none of this is really his argument. His argument, without trying to put words into his mouth, is that more picks spread out the scouts and make them worse and their job more difficult. Or close enough to that.
I'd prefer spread out picks as well for development reasons on top of that. A lot easier to put a young prospect into his role, whatever it may be, while playing in the AHLwhen he's not competing with another equal or better prospect.