Every team has good picks. Every team has bad picks. Every team has guys that pan out, every team has guy that fizzle out. Sometimes NHL teams scouting departments have different boards then the ISS and CSS and their pick seems off the board (Poirier and jankowski). Owell! Picking 18 year olds is no easy task, especially outside the top ten.
Everyone points to Hertl and teravainen. Yes they are good players. But jay feaster and weisbrod almost exclusively picked North Americans during their tenure. (Granlund, rafikikov, and baertschi are the exceptions).
In general, feaster likes his North American players.
So rather than say oh we missed out on this player or that player. Why don't we stop crying about teravainen and Hertl and maata and be thankful of all the other talent feaster brought in to help us move out of obscurity.
I mean the guy picked more talented players in the last 3 years than the organization had in the previous 15 years.
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