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What I was responding to before shut down for post count.
The point however it should be made, at the time of those drafts, the Pens D-corps were not a put first need.
You can justify their status as BPA, but the Pens were in a BPONA (best player of need available). Shero put value of trade chips over the value of teams actual needs.
Letang
Martin
Michalek
Orpik
Goligoski = Neal/Niskanen
Lovejoy
Engelland
Niskanen
Despres
Bortuzzo
Minus Goligoski and the addition of Morrow that list doesn't change much the fallowing year, and this is just abuse of the Pens needs. At the time, mind you.
What I was responding to before shut down for post count.
The Forsberg pick was inexcusable, it's as simple as that. I'm not even going to bother arguing that one. I'm happy with Pouliot, but there was no excuse to pick him over Forsberg. Forsberg was rated higher was was a consensus top-3 pick almost everywhere.
At the time of the draft, Saad was rated lower than Morrow. I really don't understand how you can be upset with us taking Morrow over Saad. If Saad weren't from Pittsburgh, people wouldn't be so pissed about it. The Forsberg pick was much worse than the Saad pick at the time.
The point however it should be made, at the time of those drafts, the Pens D-corps were not a put first need.
You can justify their status as BPA, but the Pens were in a BPONA (best player of need available). Shero put value of trade chips over the value of teams actual needs.
Letang
Martin
Michalek
Orpik
Goligoski = Neal/Niskanen
Lovejoy
Engelland
Niskanen
Despres
Bortuzzo
Minus Goligoski and the addition of Morrow that list doesn't change much the fallowing year, and this is just abuse of the Pens needs. At the time, mind you.