On HFBoards, young potential talent always trumps young established talent.
ALWAYS
Yeah, we heard a lot of those snide remarks from Burke apologists in Toronto too: "why draft and wait for a mystery box to be Evander Kane, when you can have Evander Kane himself!" said the geniuses.
Well, the thing is, there's stuff like ELC's to consider, there's the fact that Bogosian and Kane were deemed to be expendable pieces from another team's failed youth movement, that you're paying Ryan O'Reilly huge, huge dollars to play a role that may never justify his salary, lot's of things to consider.