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Old 06-24-2024, 07:03 PM   #4705
Jay Random
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Originally Posted by Ped View Post
Ok? All I said was if a team values a player enough, they will trade up for him. They're probably not going to give up a top prospect. No one took Skille, Setoguchi, or Lee thinking they were going to be busts. No one is going to take a player in the top-10 this year or the first round thinking they're going to be busts. Hindsight is great.
That's the point. Hindsight is great, but you don't have any hindsight on draft day. No pick in this draft has equivalent value to an Orr or a Karlsson, because the odds are against any player in the whole draft having a career like that. If a GM thinks he has a sure thing and bets accordingly, he is a sucker.


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And you got the year wrong, although the correct ones weren't all-stars, either:


7 Colin Wilson
8 Mikkel Boedker
9 Josh Bailey
10 Cody Hodgson
You said 2005, and that's the draft I quoted.

Schenn was drafted in 2008. So we both got the year wrong.
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