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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Yes, they do, and it's an error 100% of the time that this is the driving factor in decision making. You act like what hockey teams do is necessarily what they should be doing. Counter-examples: see Oilers, Edmonton and Maple Leafs, Toronto. And hell, Canucks, Vancouver, given the recent awful contracts handed out to Sbisa and Dorsett.
Again, it does not matter if you have size, if you are unable to leverage that size into on-ice success. It does not matter if you are fast, if you are unable to leverage that speed into on-ice success. Tools only matter to the extent you can do something with them, which is to say they don't really matter at all.
If the Russian scoring dynamo guy (way to be subtle in your xenophobia) is more likely to lead to his team outscoring the other guys when he's on the ice, you should always take him over a two-way player who won't provide the same level of play. Or you should. In the end, there are two paths to victory: scoring goals and preventing goals. Neither matters more than the other (in spite of the bias in the NHL towards safe defensive play, which ultimately creates inefficiencies).
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/facepalm thats the problem. No one knows who will hit their potential its all speculative. We know some have a better chance than others but then you get guys in 5th round that put it all together too If we knew exactly who was the best to hit thier potential in every round than all draft orders for every team would be the same. Of course you want to take the player who will best hit his ceiling but who actually 100% knows this? This is why teams come up with different draft lists. If you have two players both are considererd equally skilled but excel in different aspects of the game, who do you prioritize? You seem to have this idea that we can just know who will have the best chance to hit their ceiling but we dont or their wouldnt be any need to pick. Players would just go in order through all rounds.......
Also im not really sure what you are going on about I never stated which player was better or if one was better, more like two sides to a coin used as examples. Xenophobic, hardly.