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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Well, when you get an elite left winger, and a high end puck moving D each in the 4th round, you can afford to fill out other parts of your roster in other ways.
Not all picks are going to hit - the fact that we haven't had a real dud outside of...Hunter Smith and Mason McDonald? in recent years speaks to just how well we have been drafting. Plenty of 2nd round picks fail to ever become every day NHL'ers, so in my eyes moving a 2nd round pick in a "weaker" draft for an every day NHLer who is only 21/22...that's a decent value proposition. Especially when you take into consideration that our management has praised his off-ice abilities already as a 21/22 year old.
...also, I feel like "Hockey IQ" is so over-used on this forum that the term is effectively meaningless.
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No kidding.
Player X had a bad shift, or didn't finish, or got a penalty, or whatever => low hockey IQ!