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Originally Posted by MattyC
How is this preferable? If you're talking about having hope that players exceed their projections, wouldn't the preferable scenario be that some of our late round picks end up being gems? Rather than hoping the team sucks and ends up with top picks?
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If being a sports fan for the last 30 years has taught me anything it's that you can't
bank on "can't-miss" prospects to have long and successful careers in any top league of any sport. You can hope that they pan out, but you cannot 100% count on them to. This applies exponentially more to late-round picks. We certainly can't
expect a scenario where, for example, 7th-round pick Tim Harrison pots 30 goals in a season, so there's no need to prepare for a scenario where that happens. Sure, it's a 'preferable scenario', but it's unlikely to happen. May as well focus on improving our depth in that position rather than assuming or planning for long-shot prospects to fill major organisational needs.
I personally think Monahan & Jankowski have first line C potential & I imagine the vast majority on here would agree. I wouldn't bet my life on either of them being legitimate 1st-liners on a good team, but I also wouldn't rule out both of them panning out & forming a lethal 1-2 punch down the middle as we haven't seen since Nieuwy/Gilmour. Having them in the stable of prospects is amazing & I am very excited to watch them develop, but I hope management continues to address that organisational need in upcoming drafts instead of assuming that we're all sorted for the foreseeable.