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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
I'm not dismissing the other picks at all. They may turn out to be star players for a long time. But if the Preds picked up a franchise d-man who can log 25 minutes a night and be be dominant at times at both ends of the ice with the 4th pick? I bet the Preds would consider that a steal. Those types of players are very, very tough to find. I guess we'll see in a few years how it all starts to shake out. But right now, I'd say Jones is the best player from the '13 draft playing in the NHL.
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Hard to say, I've only watched Barkov. But you know, it's a dozen games in and you can say the same about the centers, "if they picked a dominant centerman..." and Jones is also a year older than they are. Top centers are even more valuable than defensemen.
Saying that Jones was a steal suggests that the other teams should have taken him. I don't think any of them would change their minds about who to pick, not even Tampa Bay. There were reasons why they chose other players and those reasons haven't changed. Jones looks like he was expected to so far but defensemen are also trickier in their development as we all know.