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Originally Posted by OzSome
Just a 6th round pick and not a lot of chance to play in the NHL? Hmmm.. tell that to Jonathan Ericsson(Detroit), Adam Burish(Chicago), Jaroslav Halak(Montreal), Matt Moulson(Pittsburgh), Mark Streit(Montreal), Pekka Rinne(Nashville), Dustin Byfuglien(Chicago) and others. Late rounds are a crap shoot and some of these players are late bloomers.
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The average age of an NHLer today is 28.66, which we will bump up to 29. That means the 02-03 draftees are the average. (Of note: Drew Miller, Marc Methot, Bruno Gervais, and Tyler Johnson (unsigned) are some notables from that draft) There have been 10, soon to be 11 drafts since then, which means there have been 300 players drafted in the 6th round. That's in the last 10 years alone. How many from he previous 10 were impact players? Not that many. Players drafted in the 6th round aren't likely to make an impact on the team they are drafted by. I'm not saying they won't, but how many times do players renter the draft because they can't, or won't, be signed? We are probably more likely to sign, or trade for, another teams 6th round draft pick.
All I'm saying is one late round draft pick isn't going to break our team. We aren't going to look back in 5 years or so (if our rebuild fails) and say "I really wish we didn't trade our 6th round draft pick in the 2014 draft for Lane MacDermid. That move really screwed us in the long run."