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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
My point was that those players can be acquired when you are ready to compete. It's easy to find 30 goal scorers. It's easy to trade for them. It's easy to sign them as UFAs. Patrick Sharp was a 40 goal scorer recently traded as a cap dump. What do the Blackhawks have left from that trade? These goal scoring wingers are fine and dandy until you have to pay them huge. And then you realize you can't have too much money tied up in goal scoring wingers when centres and defensemen are the more important players. Which of these goal scoring wingers dragged their team to a cup?
What isn't easy to find are franchise centres, 1st line powerforwards and top 3 defensemen. So if you're drafting high you should be aiming to find that type of commodity. You might as well aim for a valuable and rare commodity. My point is that a finesse goal scoring winger like Nylander isn't necessarily a rare and valuable commodity.
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They may not be as rare but they are definitly valuable. If the concern is that someone might be so good that you will have to pay for their services later, then I am not sure what end game you are acutally after. Not drafting someone for fear of the end result of their success seems odd to me.