Larger forwards...in particular power forwards...and goalies seem to take a little longer to develop. Tough to judge those picks now.
I think Smith was a reasonable risk/reward pick where they got him. If he gets to a point where he can play and have kind of a Tom Wilson style of game, they got their money's worth.
As for the goalie, the only issue I had with taking macdonald was that they seemed to want to draft a goalie no matter what with that pick once Lemieux was off the board rather than BPA approach. I guess BPA > BGA methodology.
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