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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Why would you think scouts underrate defensemen? Every team carries more forwards than defensemen so it's natural that more forwards are picked in the draft due to being part of a larger pool to which there are more spots in organizational depth charts.
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He said why they underrate them. Because scouts don't factor in how much they go for in trade and thus defencemen are highly valuable commodities that on average will be worth more than an equivalent forward.
Flames management knows this and it's why I've been theorizing for months that they may have the defencemen slightly higher than some rankings. I think after Tkachuk/Dubois there's a falloff in the forwards and thus a defenceman or two or three are likely to be ahead of the next tier of forwards