FromOyVey2Matvei
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It has nothing to do with 17 year old kids. It’s about the shit organization selecting the kids. They have done NOTHING to earn the benefit of the doubt. Their drafting and developing have been bad. And that might be putting it mildly.I always enjoy the absolute certainty in people's convictions about 17 year old kids. You would swear that the draft is dead easy and you just follow the consensus.
So when the Flyers eschew the obvious pick and reach for a position of need or go off the board or act like the smartest team in the room, they’re going to get criticized and deservedly so.
If you need an example of just how disastrous having a bad process can be, just look at the Bonk pick. By all accounts, Bonk had a great year and has improved a lot as a prospect. I’ve seen him in a lot of peoples top 50 midseason / after season prospect rankings. He’s a success story. I like him and I’m rooting for him. So what’s the problem? Well, the guy we passed up to take him, the no-brainer pick Gabe Perreault, is currently a top 10 prospect (top 5 according to some). Could Bonk still be better? Sure. Could Jett be a stud 1C? Maybe that’s a 1% outcome for him, it’s theoretically possible. But in the meantime, we’ve lost value.
If we decide we want to make a big trade for an established superstar, we have less assets to make said trade right now than we would’ve if we had taken Buium and Perreault.