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Originally Posted by azzarish
A few questions to everyone on the board that I’m really interested to hear people’s viewpoints on:
1. The organizational need versus best player available always surfaces prior to the draft. If you’re in the BPA camp and Connor, Merkley or Konecny are all available at #15, would you draft one of them knowing that they’re all centers and we’re pretty deep down the middle for a good few years with Monahan, Bennett, Backlund, and Jankowski? Basically putting aside positional need for the BPA.
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IMO the farther you get down the draft the less relevant BPA is because it becomes so murky as to who exactly that is, and you will have a bunch of guys who are tied in that respect. Even within the scouting staff there will be differences as to who it is.
In your example, as much as I want to avoid a Jankowski debate, I doubt he's any kind of lock for the roster, plus a guy like Backlund may well be traded one day for say, a defenceman, so I wouldn't let their presence stop a really good centre from being drafted.