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Originally Posted by TheDebaser
For the record, who was mostly responsible for the 2011 draft? Weisbrod or Button?
That year is starting to look really good.
1)Sven Baertschi, 13th Overall
2)Markus Granlund, 45th Overall
2)Tyler Wotherspoon, 57th Overall
4)John Gaudreau, 104th Overall
6)Laurent Brossoit, 164th Overall
I think in the future we'll look back and be amazed that we picked all of these guys up in one draft.
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And to Burke except for Brossoit, there might be on description that sticks out to describe that draft list: "undersized"
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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Personally I've never bought much into what a draft is or isn't, and I think that it pretty much the majority of the time comes down to development unless it's a generational talent like Crosby.
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I don't share that idea. While I think an NHL team can ruin a prospect's development, I think you can only do so much to help a player develop. There are plenty of players who end up being very close to NHL ready by the time they turned pro. Sure it's still partly development, but you got to question how much of a role an NHL team played in the development of prospects who were developing in juniors, college, or Europe. It's more of a "do no harm" situation.