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Originally Posted by Poe969
So defensemen take linger to develop and we probably don't had the patients to develop any. Instead of drafting potential franchise defensemen, let's only draft skilled forwards and take whatever defensemen we can find.
Trying to think of another team that's done that...
Since defensemen take longer to develop, shouldn't we get some good ones early in the rebuild so they have extra time to develop and then get forwards after?
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Don't disagree, and hopefully management and fans would be patient enough to allow a guy like Ekblad to develop over half a decade.
But the thing is you can find elite defensemen outside of the top 5, and even outside of the 1st round. That doesn't happen as much with forwards. Again, you're playing the odds and Reinhart + a few defensemen later in draft may be a safer option than Ekblad + future 3rd line pluggers.