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Originally Posted by polak
...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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That is not exactly true. Yes, the Oilers took players who were judged to be the BPA, but there were lively debates about whether the best player in each of 2010 and 2012 between Hall or Seguin? Yakupov or Murray? The Oilers' problem was not so much a product of their draft strategy as the combination of player identification and development.
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You shouldn't leave the composition of your roster up to blind luck by just taking the BPA regardless of position.
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Picking BPA is not "blind luck." When drafting, these are your core players who should then determine the direction of the rest of a team's decisions.
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EDIT: I want the fins over Matthews.
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I think that is nuts. Mathews has the rare combination of size, speed, and skill down the middle. Like with the Team Canada roster released today that comprises mostly centres, players in this position are readily and easily converted to the wing, with rare exceptions like Markus Grandlund.