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Old 03-05-2015, 09:22 PM   #1310
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV View Post
Plus their draft picks tend to be 2nd, 3rd, 6th rounders. A lot easier to keep those humble than 13th overalls. Their last 1st rounder to make their team was Riley Sheahan, who is basically a Mark Jankowski.
My thoughts exactly. Detroit gets held up as the gold standard. They also picked Landon Ferraro ahead of Ryan O'Reilly in the 2009 draft. They took Tatar in the same round, but it proves what an inexact science draft teenagers is. The key is picks and plenty of them.
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