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Originally Posted by Robbob
I know Dallas was singled out, and Jiri touched on it, but the model really is draft well and hitting on those players later players.
Dallas did it to an extreme in that one draft, but you can point at various teams that have found elite players or very good players outside of the top 10 (Boston, TB, CHI, LA). TB with Pointe and Kucherov, to me that is the other home run scenario where those later picks altered the franchise.
The odds are really not in your favour finding that player late, which is why scouting is key, but when you do it is the equivalent of adding a top 10 pick talent to your team.
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Flames getting Gaudreau in the 4th round was a game changer for the Flames in the last rebuild but that's not something a team should count on when it comes to projecting the future. It's hard enough to get the picks right in the first round let alone later rounds. A lot of the better players that slip out of the first rounds are talented players with question marks. I just think you need to ignore the question marks after the first round and draft skill over measurables as I think a lot of organizations still over prioritize size.