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Originally Posted by MarkGio
I believe a 2nd in the 2015 draft could easily pan out to being a better player than Hayes. Chicago will likely need that pick and better player 4 years from now over the current Kevin Hayes. They came out ahead IMO.
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I'm not sold on Hayes but a late 2nd round pick will never "easily pan out" to be better than anyone. For every Backes or Dubinsky there's about 5 guys who will go on to do nothing of note. The fact that Hayes NHL potential isn't completely 0 at this point would put him in the upper echelon of 2nd round draft picks.
Of course picking Duncan Keith with the 54th pick worked out okay for the Hawks though. I would say very confidently that the Hawks would have rather signed Hayes than grab this compensation pick, in any case they wont see it as the end of the world though.