A team has just as good a shot at turning the player with the hardest shot in the Czech league into a decent all round NHLer as they do of turning the fastest college FA into one. It's all a bit of a crap shoot, so why limit yourself?
GM to scout: "Don't show me any college FAs!"..."Oh an no goalies under 6'5" and no D-men under 6'3" and no forwards under 6'1"! All those guys'll suck!"
Old time TML fans still cry about how Ballard wouldn't consider Russian players, so they missed out on drafting Makarov, Federov, etc.
If you are going to throw spaghetti at the wall and hope some sticks, may as well be the biggest bowl of friggin spaghetti you can find.
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