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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
It's actually not as even if you remove their record of incredibly inept drafting in that range trading back in the NHL rarely ever makes sense as the NHL draft is more of a crapshoot than other sports and the lower you pick the lower your odds are of getting a difference maker.
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Well yeah, but that's not what you said. It's silly to say "we don't want to pick in this range because past managers of the team have made bad picks in that range". There is zero logic.
If the Brad wants a certain guy and thinks he can get him at 20 it makes sense to do that and acquire another pick. It's a crapshoot, but more bullets in the chamber. It's not like they are throwing darts at the board. They know who they want.
I'd even go as far to argue that the odds of getting an impact player at 16 aren't all that different than getting an impact player at 20 or 21. I'm sure the data is out there somewhere.