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Originally Posted by dammage79
All I am saying is, is that they have an easy excuse to go out there. In any case, both sides of our conversation are speculative. Scouts and Gm's have been reported to go out and watch their picks. Conroy went out this year and watched Bennett in the OHL IIRC during one of his trips. It's not impossiible that what I said is right.
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Yeah, Conroy's not a scout though. Conroy has mentioned that the main brass will have seen some of the top picks and have opinions but they'll defer to the scouts mostly. The management group will make trips, check up on the top picks, check up on guys already selected etc etc but the main scouting group typically won't do go to check out a guy already drafted. They'll update on drafted players as a side to checking out the next crop, not the opposite. Mason MacDonald wasn't nearly as watched this year by the Flames scouts as he was last year.
I get your point, but scouts will do their due diligence on a guy like Svechnikov regardless of who is or isn't already in the system.
Small quibble as I realize that wasn't your main point.