Corby78
65 - 10 - 20
Listen man, everything about your statement was inaccurate. You hyperbolically stated that no one had the kid slotted anywhere near where we picked, I immediately showed you a guy working for a major service that had him ranked exactly where we picked him, I found two other services that had him ranked in the teens (one of which was TSN iirc), and a third site that had him ranked 20th.
The second part of your statement was somehow more logically fallacious than what I previously addressed though when you claimed because the ranking services had him slotted differently, it meant that the Caps were wrong in how they evaluated the player. Beyond the fact that there's a prominent fallacy named after that line of reasoning, we know that history is littered with players drafted higher than they were evaluated by media scouting services in every professional sport in this country that turned into absolute stars. Bob Mac alluded to multiple examples of that type of situation in yesterday's broadcast. Simply going slightly off the board, or completely off the board on occasion, doesn't mean that the team has the player pegged incorrectly. It's a part of scouting, an inherently subjective process.
First off, you knew exactly what I was saying with my statement. Having one guy rank a player at or lower then where you drafted him means nothing, as you have already stated. So who cares if one guy ranked him @13. My statement was obviously pointed at the fact that I couldn't find one expert who agreed with our staff in their assessment. You found a couple guys who thought it wasn't a much of a stretch, so that's terrific, most still disagree with our assessment. That point stands.
Second, I can live with taking a stretch every once in while if its surrounded with solid picks, but in this case it was followed by what the majority of experts see as another stretch where we also traded up to do so. So excuse me if I shake my head with the 95% of the hockey world at our draft. I hope I'm wrong and you and the 5% are correct. But I would rather see this franchise make sound decisions rather then go all in on long shots.