Charlie Stramel is what happens when you draft for need in the NHL. Who cares if a team has a glut of any one or two particular positions in their line-up or prospect pool. You should always draft BPA. If, for some reason, you don't have any room in your line-up for a good to great prospect, they still can be of value in the trade market.
You’re right, he’s what happens. We also don’t yet know what he will be, but I suspect you disagree with that and have already decided.
BPA is actually not as plausible as most here state. The NHL isn’t a video game. If you want to shift assets, it’s always possible, but not always for the type of value you want. And other teams aren’t going to throw you a life line when they know what you are trying to do. That often will cause you to move assets when their value is low because teams don’t usually trade the ones whose value is high.
BPA makes sense in some cases, but not when you are picking in the first round and have a bunch of established pieces at a position, unless the value is so much greater of the player type you have too many of. Might make sense when you are rebuilding and have more room to try things. Not the situation the Wild were in. Then again, Stramel might have been BPA at the draft and might in the future. Too early to say how it will work out.