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Originally Posted by Bingo
I've never agreed with this notion.
Take the best player.
Still better to draft a player that either won't come, or won't sign a second contract then to reduce your pool of players.
Take the Fox pick ...
Next ten players taken after Fox that year were the following ...
Matt Filipe
Cam Dineen
Cliff Pu
Will Bitten
Josh Anderson
J.D. Greenway
Joey Anderson
Hudson Elynuik
Jack LaFontaine
Rem Pitlick
Only two guys have played a game in that group and they're both American as well.
Draft the asset and manage it the best you can.
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Guess we will agree to disagree. If the best player available is Russian and has no intention of signing in North America, do you still pick him? If a player says under no circumstance will I sign with a Canadian team, do you still pick him?
Good thing is that conroy wants players who want to be here. Enough of cajoling players who don’t want to be here or pursuing players with Calgary on their ntc.
Hope the scouting team is asking that question. Again, can’t paint players of various nationalities with the same brush, but can’t end up being the Montreal expos of the NHL and develop stats for other teams. Need to develop players to build a winner here.