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Further evidence that Kyle Dubas is a liar and no one should ever believe a word that comes out of his baby face. That was the most obvious of Dubas picks and there was no way he was going to fall below the Leafs despite what he said in his presser barring someone dumb falling.
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Drunk Canuck posted:A quick, nimble defenceman. Finnish. Leafs having a great blogger draft while making guys like Burke’s head explode is great. Three guys listed at 168, 164 and 163 lbs after his press conference is a tremendous troll job by Dubas.
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Oct 7, 2020 19:37
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Twin Cinema posted:Is there any value in reading how a writer grades a team's draft? Like, it's interesting as a fan of the team to see what kind of player the team drafted, but the overall score just seems so useless. I think the ratings are more useful as a tool to “lock in” someone’s evaluations so they can go back 3-5 and see how their ratings stack up and what they got right/wrong. But yeah, I don’t think they really mean anything right now and I read them more just to figure out which 18 year old I should irrationally root for.
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Oct 8, 2020 16:50
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ThinkTank posted:If there's one thing in sports that decidedly overrated it's in person scouting. Teams could save a boat load by during firing the guys they have all over the world and just letting the stats guys run prospects through their programs. The success rate is at worst a wash but likely far higher. You could probably get decent results from the CHL where at least everyone is playing against comperable peers but I think you’d miss a lot in Europe and even NCAA where physical maturity is makes a much bigger difference. Like I don’t know how instructive the stats of a 17 year old boys playing against 28 year old men in the KHL are going to be other than for extreme outliers. Like I think in person pro scouting is pretty much useless but at 18 I think you still need some in person viewings. There’s also all the smaller leagues where the stats just aren’t there or reliable yet.
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