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Originally Posted by transplant99
Right...thank you.
even then, it has nothing to do with the reality of what each individual team has on their own "board" so its impossible to go "off the board" when its that teams board that had them making the selection in the first pace!!
Its proven over and over again each and every year.
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It absolutely is possible to go "off the board". Just ask a Columbus or Vancouver fan about yesterdays picks.
The expression, and yes it is an expression, loosely translated, means that the scouts for your team think they see something different than most people, many of which are highly paid to watch young hockey players as a full time job. This occurrence usually results in immediate disappointment among fans, because their expactations were different from what transpired. We need a shorter expression for this occurrence, so some of us call it "going off the board". Please don't get caught up in some absurd argument that for there to be a "board", everyone must have exactly the same opinion of every player. We all know that is not how it works. The board is not literal. It is a figure of speech.
People who dislike the term "board" remind me of an annoying college professor who used to rant about "woods" not having a "neck".