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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Do you not think that the coaches who are scrutinising the players on a daily basis can see this in training camp?
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Really ?? You are going to say that the NHL brain thrust.... many former players... are infallible judges of NHL potential from observing practices and scrimmages and non-NHL games?
That is why the best longer term NHL player is always selected 1st in the draft and the NHL success rate is closely correlated to the draft?? NOT
Next you are going to tell me that coaches watching Giordano an a daily basis for years could tell he was not as good a hockey player as Bouwmeester and even if he was given the opportunity he would never ever be a #1 Defenseman.
You never really know how players will react in a game situation until you actually put them in game situations.
At the end of last season with Knight/Hankowski/Agostino/Van Brabant/Reinhart/Granlund rotating in the line-up replacing Stajan and Stempniak and Glencross the team did far better than the team did with the proven NHL players.
Is there some sort of artistic impression points that devalues these wins that I don't know about?