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Originally Posted by CroFlames
This is also such crap.
If you are an owner/president/GM/coach/trainer do you honestly care one tiny bit what race a player is? Like at all? If the racism was existent, wouldn't a guy like Iggy, Kane or Subban been passed over in the draft?
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PK was picked 43rd and Iginla 11th, so in retrospect it's pretty clear both were undervalued. Of course this happens all the time with players anyway so it doesn't really mean anything, but it's clearly possible that underlying some racist attitudes could have been in play there.
Kane on the other hand was picked 4th behind Tavares, Hedman and Duchene, which seems about right to me.
As for the possibility that owners/presidents/GM's/coaches/trainers don't care about race, let's talk about NFL quarterbacks. Obviously it's unlikely that anybody would
consciously pick an inferior white QB over a black one, considering how crucial that position is and how much money is tied to an NFL teams success. But it's also pretty obvious there's no rational reason why it has traditionally been a spot for the white guy.