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Originally Posted by Mike F
In my experience, drafting the BPA means not taking position or organizational needs into consideration, and just taking the best prospect, be it centre, wing, defenseman, or goalie.
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What experience is that? How many pre-draft meetings have you sat in where teams have put their list together? I would think that the diversity in the draft order seems to say that teams not only order their selections based on their interpretation of skills, but also based on organizational needs. I would also think that the recent video on the Flyers' meeting kind of puts the whole BPA argument to bed about how they decide what is qualifies as the BPA. Need of a big defenseman certainly changed the order of their selection. The whole concept of "the board" and "best player available" is decided by the team, not some list compiled by ISS, Redline or Bob McKenzie.