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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
It's less that Point was "local" and more that we literally drafted Hunter Smith that year when Point had a much better draft year and wasn't an overager.
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I don't mind the overager element. There's been a lot of good value picks over the years by drafting overagers: guys like TJ Oshie, David Perron, Tanner Pearson, Jason Demers, etc. I'm sure I'm missing some. But Hunter had a great junior year because of his size that he used to overpower his undersized opponents. It was a pick based on old school big=good mentality.
But a lot of teams made the mistake with Point. Even the lighting passed on him early in the 2nd taking Dominik Masin at 35 then the did it again at 57 taking Jonathan Macleod. Combined 0 NHL games between them.
The point (pun intended) is that the mistake is not unique to Calgary in any way, shape or form.