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Originally Posted by Bingo
What are you using to determine the development system is piss poor? They've graduated a lot of players in the past several years.
Have they graduated more or less than the average team with the same amount of selections in the last five years? I think that's the study.
Graduate rate based on pick tiers or something?
But I think the bigger culprit is the amount of picks moved, not the ability to develop once they're selected.
Off the top of my head guys that have come up and played a role ...
Mangiapane
Dube
Andersson
Kylington
Valimaki
Mackey
Gawdin
Rittich
Hathaway
Kulak
I wouldn't put Tkachuk on the list as he came in "developed"
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Isn't this a problem though?
No top 2 D (We can hope Andersson or Val gets there), No top line forward. A 2nd line forward and a 3rd line forward.
While it is better then the historically pathetic drafting and developing this team is use too, we arent exactly pumping out NHLers.
The fact we are constantly overpaying for 4th liners or using vets on tryouts to fill out the roster demostrates part of the issue.