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By: Thoughts on the draft » inthecheapseats.com

Thoughts on the draft » inthecheapseats.com — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:49:14 +0000

[...] so after dissing the NHL draft the other day, I went ahead an watched it on Friday night anyway. Well, not the whole [...]

By: Draft Dodger

Draft Dodger — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:30:50 +0000

*sigh* indeed…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:58:26 +0000

*sigh*

The Draft is not a dartboard. Citing examples of busts doesn’t strengthen your argument.

A good GM with a good scouting staff can make good drafting decisions. Citing examples of poor GMs making poor decisions doesn’t mean that the good GMs can’t make good decisions.

Your position is lazy and uninformed. Instead of spending five minutes with hockeydb to cherry pick examples to provide evidence for your inane argument, why don’t you spend a couple years pouring over the data and find actual trends?

If you did, you’d realize how short-sighted and misinformed you are.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:11:17 +0000

Werent The Duke, or Alex “mid” round picks? I think, honestly that it all depends on scouting, and the Avs have proven they can scout very well.

By: jibblescribbits

jibblescribbits — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:51:08 +0000

So if you were an NHL GMK, wouldn’t you trade away draft picks for useful players. What’s the chances of an bottom half 1st round pick being a servicable NHLer 50%, 40%?

So why wouldn’t the Avs trade the #14 pick to, say, Buffalo fot he rights to Zubris and sign him to a 3-year deal. Isn’t that a safer route than actually drafting?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:40:24 +0000

I’ll never miss a draft day again after the heart attack that was last year. I get home from a day with my family and I see that We’d traded Alex….I screamed, and unless Leo does some amazing stuff this year, I’ll still be unhappy about it.