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Originally Posted by Bingo
If he's there I'd be happy if they selected him but ...
the second the choice was made I'd fret about the history of defensemen taken in the first five and how teams that drafted them tend to overreact to the fact that forwards selected around them progressed faster creating stupid trades that these franchises regretted for a decade.
So take him sure ... but them leave him alone until he's 23 and then assess the draft.
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Defensemen always seem to take a couple more years too develop. Which is exactly why we should be loading up on them early in this rebuild.