With the understanding that I believe you have put me on your ignore list at this point so I'm just using this as a jumping off point for a broader discussion, this is really oversimplifying things in my opinion. It's all about trade-offs, if you can find a great skater in the 7th round it's likely because they have hands of stone or are 5'6. Every prospect has strengths and weaknesses, and it's not as if prospects have never improved their skating either. If you applied this hard and fast rule of never picking a weak skater, you would have passed up on Brayden Point, while Tampa drafted him and immediately went to work fixing that issue and got themselves a star 1st line centre for their trouble.
And that's a player who's developed into a good skater, which isn't even necessary to be successful in the NHL either. Mark Stone, Brendan Gallagher, Jason Robertson, and Joe Pavelski, are some examples off the top of my head of average to mediocre skaters who are very effective players. Those players do lots of things well that makes up for their mediocre skating. There's lots of players who are great skaters with no other NHL level talents. I don't see any reason to just immediately discard any prospect who isn't at least an average skater, if they have other skills and qualities it can easily be worth the trade-off, and skating is a teachable skill.
