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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Do you draft him at #22?
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If he's the BPA then yes.
I'm not convinced that he is or isn't that personally... but if I were convinced that he was the best player available then yes I take him and if I decide that I can only fit a certain number of people of a certain size profile and they're all good assets of roughly equal value then I just move move one and reap value through trade.
It's foolhardy to pass on drafting the best talent available based on a hypothetical profile of what a team 3 or 4 years in the future may or may not look like... back in 2009 was the current Flames squad what you envisioned the team was going to look like? I would wager it isn't and demonstates the futility of longterm roster projection.
Fact is that by the time Nic Petan is ready to play in the NHL (if ever) Hudler is likely gone, Gaudreau may not not make it, and Sven might not develop into the stud we all hope he is. On the off chance they all do turn out and Hudler is still here? Well we now have an NHL worthy surplus asset to trade... found money as it were.