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Originally Posted by Tinordi
It has nothing to do with liking him or not. I don't like him as a player, I think he's a punk. It's about the content of my previous post which you don't address, ie. minimizing risk.
And as I understand the reasons you don't like him have little to do with his production or stats and more on your own perception of his character. Well frankly you don't have a clue about his character besides making up stories because he's on a rival team. I'm just looking on his numbers, Jr. NHL-E, rookie season stats and concluding that the guy is most likely a front-line scorer. I know I know, you don't like stats as evidenced in a previous post and prefer your own biases, that's fine. But I'll stick with the numbers because I know my own biases fail me.
And I'm saying even if he wasn't what they needed he right play was to still draft him. You can get a heck of a lot more for him now than on draft day.
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lol
1) If anything, I am a stats guy (though I a able to look beyond stats and don't follow them blindly)
2) That doesn't stop me, however, from watching players and making a personal assessment of them
3) with respect to risk, I would argue that drafting a Russian 1st overall, especially when it does not address team needs is a pretty risky way to manage the team.
4) your final argument, that you can get more for him now than on draft day flies in the face of your 'risk' argument (it was a risky proposition to assume that if he isn't right for the team, you can trade him later for more than you could trade him for on draft day - which I still don't agree with)
Time will tell of course. But a team that is long on small talented forwards, and short on pretty much everything else, drafting a Russian first overall is not what I would call good risk management.