BPA is a vastly over-used argument.
It simply isn't that cut and dried. When you're drafting between 5th and 10th for example, your probably looking at 4 or 5 essentially equal prospects. One might be a better skater and another have a better shot or higher hockey IQ. It's a question of preferences.
Ask 5 scouts which one is the BPA and you probably get 5 different answers. So just take the one you like (and that is often influenced by position or team need).
When it becomes an issue is when a team reaches. If the next tier of players doesn't include a LW, for example, but a team really wants an LW so they reach down into the next tier. That's when they get themselves in trouble.
And I am confident Treliving would never do that.
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