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Originally Posted by Bingo
Possibly Fox?
You pass on a future Norris winner that you can trade for another asset for a player that likely doesn't play at all?
The next ten players taken after Fox are highlighted by the Rem Pitlick. That's it.
This literally makes zero sense.
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A more difficult scenario is you’re drafting 7th OA and have two or three players your scouts like in that range. One is an American going the college route. Do you take him anyway, or go with the Canadian or Swede? It’s easy to say you can always trade him later, but unless they really explode in D+1 or D+2, even players drafted with high first round picks rarely net a high first round pick in return.
We already see this sort of risk factored into evaluations of Russians. It sucks, but Canadian teams might need to start doing the same calculation with American players.