Tear it down or keep the old gal rolling?

[CapitalsCupReality]

I meant they have very little value to us because of the bigger picture, which is poor asset management after you make the pick.

Even in general they don't become "serviceable NHL'ers most of the time". There was a research done recently which put odds of 2nd round pick playing 100 NHL games at ~17%. That's 83% chance of basically being a bust and in that 17% are lots of players like Leason where the team that drafted the player had him for less than 100 games before losing him to waivers for nothing. Also that included the entire 2nd round. Odds are even smaller mid-to-late 2nd round.

I know the stats on that….still doesn’t mean 2nd rounders have little value, but we can move on. Our selections past the 1st have been questionable overall for a long time.