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Originally Posted by polak
I don't know, I'll break the mold and suggest that depending on the situation, 1st rounders should sometimes be drafted by need. After the 1st round it should always be BPA since it's a total crapshoot.
When should 1st rounders be by need? When your first round picks start to stack up in one position after a few years. Then you end up like the Oilers who took the consensus BPA every year and now they have a bunch of soft but skilled forwards and the rest of team is utter trash.
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The problem with the Oilers is that they should have traded away those players or picks for assets that would help them. Everyone knows that is what they need to do, but the haven't done so yet. Their mistake is holding onto those players like their lives depend on it.
And for all the grief they get, they took the general consensus #1 pick each season. Who's to say the Flames wouldn't have made the same picks had they been in that position? It's easy to say they should have taken Ryan Murray instead of Yakupov. That would certainly have filled a need. But no one at the time was saying that. Same with Hall vs Seguin. Seguin now for sure, but at the time Hall was winning those polls with a >80% vote, including on CP. We have the luxury of hindsight.
The Oilers trading away either those 1st overalls for some good talent would have been the smart move. But alas, we are blessed they don't think like that.