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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Like centres, the best ones just aren't available. Even a young secondary prospect defenceman isn't easy to acquire. There seems to be a shortage at the moment and that's why we had to go to Europe to sign a 27 year old who we hope can fill a spot.
and luckily for us there a few defencemen right at our #15 pick, so it isn't a stretch to take one.
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I think that "
had to go to Europe to sign a 27 year old who we
hope can fill a spot" is a tad overstated. And I don't think Nakladal and who we should take In the draft are at all correlated. We added a sought-after commodity for free. Due to injury our lack of NHL-ready defencemen was exposed, but that's not who we're drafting.