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Originally Posted by Mickey76
I am amazed with all the scouting and tools in teams hands what a complete crapshoot the draft still is. I have always felt anything 4th round or later is nothing more than luck. Sometimes you are lucky and sometimes you are not. I am too lazy but I wonder if you could fire your whole scouting department and just draft solely on the scouting bureaus number. I bet over 20 years you wouldn’t look out of place.
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One thing that's changing quickly is teams drafting the potentially elite skilled guys with flaws as opposed to the "safe" picks who are sure bets for low end NHL'er.
Teams are realizing that with 7 picks in a draft, one or two hits on fast, high scoring forwards that need to work on something is better than 4 hits on guys with a ceiling of NHL checking forward with a higher floor.
Darryl Sutter was the master of the safe NHL'er pick, but it really doesn't get you anything you couldn't sign in August for $700k-$1.2mil.
EDIT: Jiri had already posted what I posted.
