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The Athletic's new two-round mock draft is in. Pronman, Wheeler, and Bultman have the Wings taking: 9. Gabe Perrault (Wheeler's pick) 17. Colby Barlow (Bultman's pick) 41. Felix Nilsson (Bultman's pick) 42. Jayden Perron (Wheeler's pick) 43. Eteinne Morin (Pronman's pick)

I do too. You're better off filling your amateur scouting department with guys who have A) good judgement, and B) a track record of successful talent evaluation and then let them do what they're good at (finding players). Aggregated scoring tends to put different variables on equal footing with one another. And when you do this you get bad results. Across almost every single variable a guy like Joe Pavelski is worse than a guy like Alex Semin, but one of them is good and one isn't? Why? Because all characteristics aren't created equal. Why is Patrice Bergeron better than Tyler Seguin? He shouldn't be if you go through the list of traits that scouts evaluate. He's really only better in two ways, he's smarter and more competitive. But that makes him better overall. Modern hockey analytics does this same thing (treats all skills equally) and over the years I've become very skeptical of analytics for this reason. Look at possession metrics (which are based on shot attempts). You might have two guys on a line that backcheck, win board battles, fight through checks in transition, and gain the offensive zone. Another guy does none of that but shoots any chance he get (Think Brett Hull or low rent versions like Mikael Samuelsson or Teemu Pullkkinen). At the end of the shift they all get the same possession score, but the cumulative effort it took to generate that shot isn't shared equally. The first two guys did A LOT to contribute to the success of that shift. The latter guy did one thing. Who's better? Now, who should you draft? Depends on what you need.

No, they total them, and give players overall scores. Which also then gets averaged on a department level. Which determines which players are more talented than others... And because it's so hard to project how a player will develop, the overall score is often taken in higher regard than "is this player a passer or a shooter, what do we really need" You're so far off on this you have no idea.

It's decided then! Yzerman should bring back 'Chiasson The Laughed At' for another year as a last-resort PP guy if things go real bad but hopefully we never really talk about him again though.

>Trump lost >Trump did nothing for 4 years. Didn't even build his promised wall

You didn't really need an analogy to illustrate your point. You could have made the same point by simply just saying the bolded part. You shoehorned Trump into the conversation and then make an odd accusation that other people can't get over the guy. This despite the fact that you're the only person who mentioned him. Edit: I also think your whole "why don't people stop talking about two guys who are currently in the news" is an odd position to take as well. One just got hired by an NHL team and the other is running for President. Who should we talk about? Grover Cleveland and Al Arbour?

But you bringing it up is a case of "not letting it go". You could have just said "Commodore is pathetic and Babcock lives rent free in his head". Instead you used an analogy centered on Trump that illustrated the exact opposite point you were trying to make. "People can't get over Babcock in the same way they can't get over Trump" said the only guy on this board talking about Donald Trump.

5 games thats it? How do we stop this unhinged psycho?