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Originally Posted by Nutterbug
I thought the whole idea of a draft was to fairly distribute the up-and-comers. They're supposed to work to impress, wherever they were placed, till they attained their free agent status.
This throws the whole point of a draft system out the window.
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My point being is this. There are many players eligible for the draft every year. You don't necessarily have to draft a player that has made it abundantly clear that they don't want to be here in this city (ala Steve Francis). Not every player is going to declare that they don't want to play in Vancouver. That's just being absurd and ridiculous.
A lot of NHL draftees don't end up playing with their respective clubs. Many of them actually have to spend a year or two, maybe even a few years in the minors for them to get seasoned to the pro game, and what life is like as a professional as well. Same idea, and same concept. We don't have to look very far to see that Cody Hodgson isn't a Steve Stamkos kind of player. He's got to develop his game down in the minors. The NBA now has a similar system in place. The Raptors, if I'm not mistaken, had just recently called up one of their younger players from their D league team. Same concept.
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