RAFI BOMB
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- May 11, 2016
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The Sens shouldn't make any adjustments to their drafting philosophy. They are drafting in order to win the Stanley Cup not the President's Trophy. Fans will be skeptical and doubt the drafting philosophy until they see the results in the playoffs where this strategy will have the ability to demonstrate its effectiveness. The Sens are doing an excellent job building this team from a drafting and development standpoint. They also don't lack skill in their prospect pool. It won't take very long before the Sens are a very good regular season team and an excellent playoff team.Pretty sure that's a troll post there. Doubt it's serious. However, there is a grain of truth in that PD and current scout team don't focus enough on high end talent and skill, and value grit and safe picks too much. There needs to be an adjustment in the drafting philosophy to go after high risk, high reward players with potentially high offensive ceiling if they pan out of us. We have enough depth and hard-nosed middle of the pack type prospects in the system to take those gambles. I was advocating they do that starting with this recent draft, but they went completely in the opposite direction unfortunately. This would have been the perfect year to take some ch