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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Everyone team has their own list. No team picks players based on TSN, the Hockey News,ISS or any other list, they go by their own. Every team thinks "we're smarter then everyone else". I'm always blown away this seems to be attributed to Feaster and company lately but oh well.
If a GM is relying on others to do his job, he isn't do it right.
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Bob McKenzie's list is based on a scout survey. It's a pretty good indicator of where players will go, and thus can be used fairly accurately to assess whether trading up or down should've happened. It has strong predictive value for where guys will go in the draft.
Trading down up and down has to be part of your calculations. If you have a guy ranked well above his consensus spot, your best bet isn't a big reach, but a trade down.
Poirier wasn't the only reach in the draft, nor was he a massive reach, but he's the one I'm talking about because I happen to be a Flames fan.
Heck, if Shinkaruk wasn't on the board I probably wouldn't have minded the pick at all. But Shinkaruk is in a different class of statiscal comparables than Poirier, and that's why it's a big deal.