Nanabijou
Booooooooooone
I’ll add that doesn’t mean they are infallible or will be right. But seeing as I’ve been too busy to watch video on this year’s later picks, I’m going to defer to their ranking of those guys.
I haven’t watched Richard play, and I have no problem with anyone voting for whoever they want.
But, I think your statement is false, based on what I’ve been told by low level people who have been in the room and what we’ve seen in the first few rounds.
They make their list at the top and then separate later rounds into tiers. But they don’t try to outguess the other teams, they take the highest rated guy on their list in each round, occasionally debating guys on same tier on positional need.
So, they (jackets scouts) clearly thought Richard was a better prospect than the other D picked after.
Are you saying that you know the Jackets in particular don't try to outguess? I could believe that, though plenty of teams do in the early rounds. By round 4 though I think everyone is just going through their lists, no one knows who teams are going to pick at that point.