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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
The Red Wings started scouting those leagues more aggressively a lot sooner than most teams did and likely knew they would be able to spend later round picks on Datsyuk and Zetterberg because they were likely not on any other teams/scouts radar. Then other teams caught on and you now see lots and lots of picks from those leagues with less ‘good old Canadian kid from the dub’ picks being spent in the 1 through 3 rounds. Detroit 1000000 percent deserves the credit they get for drafting those players how and when they did.
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Still don’t buy it. St.Louis also had scouts on Datsyuk, I believe,
Further, why would they have risked it? Clearly not all the scouts they had felt the same way. Go ahead and look at some of the guys they picked before each player. I think you would be lying if you said you had heard of half of them.
Makes no sense. If they knew those players would turn out to be as good as they were, Detroit takes them with their first pick whether that was in the first, or second, or whatever round.