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Originally Posted by ah123
I remember an interview where the justification for picking Fata was phrased as "he has an NHL body", i.e., he was physically developed enough to play that year. Those were dark days
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That illustrates the challenge of being a 'poor' team: the tendency to a) draft players because they are NHL-ready, and b) to keep 18 year olds on the roster.
Both of these are detrimental to long-term team success.
And I watched it over and over again with the Jets.