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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The object of a draft is not to draft the player who is the best in junior, it is to draft the best NHLer.
Brayden Point is 5'9" 160. Even if - on the highly improbable odds - he turns out as good as Gaudreau, how many tiny playmakers can a team dress?
Suggesting Point is more talented than Smith today and therefore would have been a better draft pick is, frankly, grossly naïve.
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How many 6 foot 7 forwards make the NHL? To suggest that such a forward would have been a better draft pick is grossly naïve at best.