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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Now as a Flames fan, I can assure you I realize it's not a walk in the park grabbing a top line center. But who cares what position a player plays if they don't end up being good. It's still a million times easier building around a top line winger than a 3rd line center. If at pick 6 the scouting staff believes that a certain player will be a bigger impact player than the rest of the available draftees, that's who they need to grab regardless of position. Unless it's a goalie, if it is #### that.
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This is exactly it. The fans are buying into the media driven hype that every player in the 1st round is an amazing prospect and that the top 10 are all "can't miss", but I sincerely doubt that the scouts and management of most teams see it that way - they know some of these guys are going to disappoint and they have to take every precaution to avoid being the team that take a dud. For TSN, THN, and even the NHL, it's in their best interests to promote this idea.
The scouts and teams know that there are varying degrees of probably of players making it or living up to their projected high water marks and no matter how close things are, they will still have to find a way to separate them. They might measure it differently and come to different conclusions, but make no mistake, they most likely do not have the players at being even. If they think that Nurse (for example) is 90% likely to be a #1 defenseman and Monahan/Lindholm are less than 50% likely to be #1 centres, then I think they have to take the defenseman.
As a side note, I would like to see how the Flames drafting has been over the years when compared to the various rankings and who the BPA was according to media sources and who we actually ended up taking.