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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
That just sounds so EDM doesn't it? I mean they did draft Klefbom and Nurse in the 1st round, how many 1st rounders can they afford to waste on defensemen while trying to assemble the best forward cast since the 80's Oilers?
They've found out painfully that drafting pure offensive skill every time regardless of their size and grit isn't the answer. Now it seems they've brought in Chiarelli who has the grand vision of supplementing their soft, skilled forwards with some grit and size. From that perspective how can they not draft Tkachuk or Dubois? Power and skill?!? It's everything they lack right?
I think it'll be super funny if we take a d-man that ends out turning into a top pairing guy and the Oilers and Canucks have to face that player for years instead of having him.
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Not only getting dazzled by the flashy junior point producers every draft, but often wingers, the least valuable position out there, to boot. Everyone mindlessly parrots the BPA line but when players are close upside wise, take the centre or defenceman every time unless you are already set there for a long long time.
I think it's hilarious that they're talking about taking Tkachuk or Dubois with 3 defenceman considered to be roughly equivalent in that next tier of 6 or 7 players. And even if you think the marginal gap is there, trade down and take the asset when you literally have one decent NHL blueliner.
Every year they draft based on goal highlight reels. Just too bad they got McDavid or they'd be even more hilarious... team building is a totally foreign concept