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Originally Posted by Scoreface
I said it mainly in the context of passing up on guys like Hertl and Maata. It would be ok then if Jankowski turned out as a top 6. Otherwise that decision likely looks really dumb.
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But then why set such situations into this context? Once players have been drafted, their original draft rankings and their order of pick is pretty meaningless (or it should be). This happens regularly for every organisation, and I'm fairly certain that if Hertl turns out as good as he appears after this season, there will be LOTS of teams who will be left looking "really dumb". But this is a fan perception, which is completely meaningless to the performance of the team. I expect that NHL teams don't pine over the good performance of other teams' picks relative to their own, and after the draft. Some picks pan out, but most don't. There is a much better chance of picking good NHL players in round 1, but there are still high picks from every single draft and in every single organisation that has failed to live up to his draft billing, or his draft number. In the end, this is a silly thing about which to get ones self worked up.