MXD
Original #4
- Oct 27, 2005
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Let me get this straight, MXD: you're telling me that the only guy, Clapper, who can play in any role in the draft (any forward line, any defence pairing) is a bad second round pick? Yikes.
Clapper can be a scoring line winger. He can be a two-way line winger. He can be a physical line winger. He can be an offensive defenceman, a defensive defenceman, a physical defenceman. He can log mbig minutes on top special teams units. He's one of the best leaders in the draft.
He's far from the worst pick in the second round.
It's just that any team that would use Clapper as a regular winger would be completely nuts, so the fact he is a legit scoring line 2-way winger is pretty much irrelevant (I'd rank his career as a forward inferior to Cecil Dillon).
As for defense, I know Clapper is all that. The problem is -- you have a guy like Sprague Cleghorn can do the exact same thing (and, in all honestly, was better offensively) that was still on the board when Clapper was picked. I guess Clapper COULD, in theory, play on the PK at F, but would you REALLY use Clapper that way??