Boud
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that strategy might of worked back in the 90's when many teams did not scout/scout well any European leagues. now that is not the case (specially when the 2 players in question played in the QMJHL).
if the sens honestly traded up then drafted a guy who was not at the top of their list i'd seriously question managements drafting processes. i under stand the idea of drafting a guy you have lower if you are sure you can get the higher guy within a few spots but that was not the case here. we traded up to get Gagne and then had to wait 12 spots to get Chlapik. any of those 12 teams could of easily drafted him or traded there pick to someone who wanted him. our choice to trade up for Gagne then wait 12 spots for Chlapik shows we clearly think Gagne is a better prospect.
Chlapik might of been ranked 18th(NA skaters) but something made him fall 30(ish) spots and i doubt it was teams not know anything about him.
To be fair, pretty much every Centre that was drafted before Chlapik we're all ranked higher than him or in the same range excluding Mitchell Stephens who shot up the rankings after his impressive U18 WJC. Eriksson Ek, White, Konecny, Roslovic, Harkins we're all solid bets to go in the first and then Forsbacka-Karlsson who's on par with Chlapik IMO. If we'd have grabbed any of these guys with the 48 pick I would've been more than happy. The next centre picked after him was Trenin, same production as Chlapik in the Q and again just as good as Chlapik so really there's no surprise as to where we Chlapiked him.
You can't compare his NA ranking (18th), not only without the Euros but also without the goalies and then you take in consideration team needs and you end up with good players going a little later than ranked, which is completely normal. FC had him ranked 35th, he 39th on TSN, Mckeen didn't have him the top 30
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