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Originally Posted by Robbob

Made me smile today listening to the radio and they mentioned Gretzky was the head amateur scout for the Bruins, who with 3 picks in a row some how managed to not land Barzal, Chabot, or any of the great player picked shortly after Boston picked. That guy is responsible for replenishing the Oiler pipeline.

he also admitted to drafting a player in the 1st round who they expected to top out as a 3rd liner.

The Bruins essentially admitted that to their fans on Friday at the NHL Draft after they selected center Trent Frederic with the 29th overall pick. Frederic, who is committed to the University of Wisconsin, was ranked outside the top 50 by many scouts and draft experts. The pick was almost universally regarded as a major reach.

The problem with the pick, however, isn’t that the Bruins drafted a guy that the “experts” said was only a third-line player. It’s that they agree with them. They took a first-round pick, which should net you a player with big upside 100 percent of the time, and admitted they used it on a player destined to be a bottom-six forward. They did that, on purpose.

“[Frederic] is not going to be a top-two-line guy, we know that,” Bruins director of amateur scouting Keith Gretzky told reporters at the draft, according to Steve Conroy of the Boston Herald. “But he has some jam. He plays hard with the penalty minutes. We were fortunate to get him. We believed he was our next guy and we really liked the projection of him as a staff. Everybody raved about him, his character is outstanding. He’s an athlete.”

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/06/...-line-grinder/