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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This statement is laughably wrong. I randomly chose one year, 2003, and here is a quick list of the best defensemen that year:
49: Weber
7: Suter
14: Seabrook
9: Phaneuf
20: Burns
249: Byfuglien
So then I figured I should try another year.. 2004
nobody
2005:
62: Letang
35: Vlassic
2006 and 2007: nobody
2008:
38: Josi
2: Doughty
4: Pietrangelo
15: Karlsson
so at least we finally found a couple that went before 8th
then I got bored and stopped
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None of those guys went 8th
If anything it shows there is a low correlation to picking D at 8th to franchise altering D
You confuse “can’t find a franchise altering D in the draft past 7th” with “should draft a D eighth that isn’t BPA because you need a franchise altering D
Because the odds of a franchise altering D being avail there is basically the same as in lower picks - which you nicely demonstrated