VanJack
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- Jul 11, 2014
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Yup. In the small picture, it isn't that big of a deal. Wasted 7th rounder and a wasted contract slot.
But as a scouting failure, it's almost beyond belief. Literally everyone who follows the WHL saw this coming a mile away, and anyone who follows draft trends in any way could have predicted this as well. It was just so bloody obvious that this would happen, and it would be comical right now if it wasn't so sad.
And people who make these sorts of comically stupid errors on one hand don't make great moves to build championship teams on the other. If your local auto mechanic can't figure out how to change a tire or do an oil change, he probably isn't going to be able to rebuild an engine with any degree of ability.
When your GM is dumber than your casual fans, you have a problem.
And you really do have to feel a bit sorry for Stewart. Making the WHL with his background should have been a nice success story and that should have been the end of it, but instead he's going to be the butt of jokes for years.
Agree wholeheartedly....kid was a nice story even making the Dub....but, barring a miracle, he'll be right up there with Morgan Clark, Sawyer Hannay and Evan Fuller in Canucks draft folklore....too bad, it's not as if he was a second-rounder like Yann Sauve, Taylor Ellington or Marc Andre Bernier...those picks are really far worse than a draft flyer like Stewart in the seventh round.