Re: Getback. It's a fair argument. But I'd wager there's been an upper-tier centre traded once every handful of years. Johansen(2016), Seguin(2013), Carter, Dubinsky etc. I'm sure there would have been a player available besides Johansen, probably not as good as Johansen, that they still could have turned into a fair value trade. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, as much as we egg on him, would look pretty decent with Josi and Weber and Ellis and Ekholm behind him.
I contend that the most important thing is getting the best player you can. Monahan... what if they projected that he would be an 18G / 25A center? I know a lot of
us would have thought that was a realistic projection in summer 2013. And I'm sure Seth Jones projected as more of a 15G / 40A defenseman.
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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Hate to always use them as an example, but look how much trouble Edmonton is having trying to fix their imbalanced lineup.
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That's because their BPA was wrong, not because they didn't draft by position. People always point to Yakupov over the handful of dmen available at that time but they also took Yakupov over Galchenyuk or Forsberg, two forwards that were highly rated at the time and have turned out better. Add to that how much they've mismanaged their roster.
Think for a second they "could" have a defense core, right now, of:
Sekera-Ristolainen
Klefbom-Petry
Gustafsson-Davidson
Fayne
Dubnyk
All of a sudden that don't look so bad. Instead they drafted Nurse ahead of Risto, they undervalued Petry, and they didn't even sign their own stud draft pick Gustafsson, who the Blackhawks have played with positive results on their middle pair.