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Originally Posted by RedHawk12
We have a lot of similar smallish forward prospects, especially wingers: Coronato, Phillips, Beck, Kerins, etc. And on the big club we also have Johnny, Mangiapane and Dube. The team probably felt Francis wasn't going to be better than any of those above him on the depth chart.
Also probably why we took a guy like Stromgren in the 2nd round last year, who's a big two-way winger, rather than a guy like Stankoven or Raty. I think Stankoven is going to become a better player than Stromgren, but you just can't have too much of the same type of players on a team.
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This is terrible asset management and locked in positional thinking. Instead, they should take the better player and not be afraid to then leverage the enhanced value that player creates through a trade later on.
Stromgren example is perfect. Stromgren is pretty much useless at this point. No growth curve is going to take him to the NHL in a reasonable time frame at this point. His value in a trade is probably nil. Stankoven just won CHL player of the year. He could no doubt be traded to fill a hole somewhere else on the roster.