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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I believe you said the same thing about picking Phaneuf over Getzlaf. Yes, there is a benefit of hindsight. But no, this was absolutely the wrong call at the time, because they have got it all wrong. They probably had their reasons for making these calls/choices, but those reasons (even if valid) were also obviously wrong, because they had led them to make the wrong selections.
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The word consensus can be a slippery slope, as I'm not sure there is one. Media has lists, central scouting has lists but I doubt teams agree there is a consensus.
Having said that there are different types of "wrong".
Taking a player well before most see him going is a gamble that can prove to be a mistake.
Taking a player at a spot that most media/CSB/predictions have him going certainly isn't "right", but it's less "wrong" then gambling that you know better than everyone else.
The Flames did the gamble on Jankowski and Morris, but Kidd wasn't considered a gamble at the time.