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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Yep. Much better for the prospect and the fans if the GM doesn't hype up a prospect. One of Feaster's problem was hyping up our 1st rounders and guaranteeing Baertschi a spot on the team instead of making him earn it.
EDM is seeing the fruits of hyping their 1st rounders. Bunch of entitled twats.
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I think you need to hype up your recently selected prospects at the draft, and say good things about them when warranted. They just went so over the top trying to sell hope. Every organization hypes up their picks, but this was way too much. Embarrassing to the team I thought, and could have been detrimental to a guy like Jankowski especially with so much unnecessary pressure being heaped on him (not to mention that backlash of ridicule I am sure he became keenly aware of after the fact).
It also made the organization have reek of "we are so much smarter than everyone else" rather than just letting your body of work speak for itself. If you really are smarter than everyone else, the other people unaffiliated with your organization will be the ones that should be declaring that... especially if you win the cup with a core that you drafted and developed yourself.