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Originally Posted by fotze
The 16 defencemen chosen before PK in the 2007 draft:
Thomas Hickey
Karl Alzner
Keaton Ellerby
Ryan McDonagh
Kevin Shattenkirk
Alex Plante
Ian Cole
Jonathon Blum
Brendan Smith
Nick Petrecki
Nick Ross
T.J. Brennan
Taylor Ellington
Josh Godfrey
Tommy Cross
Kevin Marshall
Every single one of them is taller than PK except Shattenkirk (the next best defencemen) and Hickey (who is the same height). Big = Good
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That's your conclusion? Good lord. Your anti-obsession with size is pretty silly. Here are the defensemen drafted before Shea Weber:
Suter
Coburn
Phaneuf
Seabrook
Burns
Stuart
Belle
Richmond
Egener
Klein
Ramholt
Smaby
Carle
10 of the 13 are smaller than Weber. If teams were in fact blindly drafting size over talent, wouldn't that apply here too? Why did they draft smaller defensemen before Weber?
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Originally Posted by fotze
Ya, I couldn't remember where he was drafted, then was shocked to see so many defencemen drafted before him. Wonder what it was that so many teams missed. Not sure if it was the eternal quest to find another Chris Pronger. But it is weird that the best defencemen out to the top 16 were the two shortest guys.
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They didn't 'miss' anything. Some guys develop more (and less) than expected. The draft is not an exact science, and defensemen are even more unpredictable. Subban was the 17th Dman taken. Weber was the 14th. Duncan Keith as 16th. And there are other examples.
The more sensible conclusion here, IMO, is that there is an element of uncertainty in drafting defensemen - a very large one.