le_sean
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You just said it’s a team decision. Clearly Lapointe was very involved with Trevor. It was always him #2 to Trevor. You can tell how involved he was just by draft videos. Unless you think the Director of Player Development and Director of Player Personnel isn’t at all involved in those types of decisions…It's a group decision, so when you change the scouting groups you'll change the results so yes it's dubious to look at their entire scouting careers, especially given that you don't know how they actually ranked players year to year. There could be plenty of times smaller players were ranked highly by either Bobrov or Lapointe but we don't know because their team didn't have a high pick or the consensus went against them. Not to mention it's the GM who would set the importance of things like size, skating, character.
But ok I'll bite, show me the examples of Lapointe drafting for size with high picks prior to the last 2 drafts? Because before MTL he wasn't involved as an amateur scout, and with Montreal before Hughes took over Timmins was in charge of the draft. So I'm not sure how looking at his entire scouting career is supposed to show something when he's never even been in charge before.
“We are going to put you in charge of developing our prospects but we don’t want any input on which ones to draft” is quite far-fetched.