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Originally Posted by Dagger
Then that's your own speculation. I'll take Feaster and Weisbrod for their words, over your own theory.
So when they get a feel for who likes who, are they not creating relative rankings? It's how they determine how far to move up and down in drafts to get a prospect. If they knew Jankowski was coveted by the teams picking at 12 and 10 let's say, they're not going to trade up to 3rd overall to secure him, but instead 8 or 9 because that's what they deem his relative worth to be amongst given the information at hand to the rest of the league. That's what my definition is of "the board."
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Relative rankings, sure. A smart GM will weigh what other GM's are doing. I don't pretend to know how it all shook out and I won't speculate on this particular pick too much because honestly, it's been debated to death in other threads.
What I am saying is there is no draft board that ranks guys 1-600 in each draft. Besides the top 2-5 guys in any draft teams have wildly different lists, especially once it gets out of the teens and especially once it gets out of the first round. Posters here get way too focused on various draft lists, rankings, mock drafts etc etc leading up to the draft and become obsessive wannabe experts that whine uncontrollably when a name they've never heard of gets drafted where they didn't expect their magazine to draft them at. That's what I'm referring to when I say there is no one board. There are 30 NHL draft boards, and if you pick apart those draft lists there are 100's of different lists, each team compiles a lists from each scouts list which probably isn't refined until the final days leading up to the draft.
The only draft board that matters at the end of the day is the one post draft. Mark Jankowski was ranked 21st overall in the 2012 draft. You know how I know that? That's where he was god damn picked.