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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The idea of drafting by position drives me nuts. Trying to predict what an organizational need is 2 or more years in advance is difficult to the point that it is rarely accurate.
Having said that, if your scouts have some guys on par with each other, I can see going for position. At 19th, there could be a few players that they have ranked the same, therefore drafting by position could come into play.
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Jankowski is the perfect example of this, we targeted him because he was a C, but then in 2013 and 2014 we ended up taking both Monahan and Bennett in the top 10 in their drafts and Backlund came into his own, as he never hit 0.5ppg until the season after Jankowski was drafted.