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Originally Posted by Table 5
Personally, I prefer the shotgun approach with Dmen. Draft a lot of them a little lower down in the draft, and see what happens. If you try to be surgical about it, and put all your hope in one guy at the top, you may be disappointed more than you like. I do like that Buffalo has drafted so many good Dmen, and now can be patient to see which ones will pan out instead of having to put all the pressure on one guy.
Ideally you also try to target Dmen in their early 20s when trading, and piggy back onto a few years of development time. That and try to find the Gios and Krugs of the world that weren't even drafted. It seems like almost all the star forwards in this league are drafted very high, but there are quite a few Dmen that achieve success in unorthodox ways (look at the best Dmen in the league and it's quite amazing how many were drafted way below their value, if drafted at all). That's why you need that shotgun! They are a little too unpredictable.
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Agree wholeheartedly. Look at the 2008 draft. Yes, Doughty went 2nd and lived up to billing. But Bogosian at 3 hasn't and Schenn at 5 is bad in hindsight. Karlsson went 15th.
Go for the sure thing forward with our first and if we can get another mid round first then go for a d (Honka).