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Originally Posted by Bingo
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.
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I agree with the word "gamble". My very first post on this forum was about the draft being a crapshoot (coming from one of the top scouts for the Flames). Which, again, speaks to the right vs. wrong. There are right calls and wrong calls. In these particular two examples, the calls made were wrong. They might have been more or less justifiable or explainable at the time. But that didn't make them right.