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Forum: Mock-DraftAug. 27, 2020 at 8:27 a.m.
Forum: Mock-DraftJul. 29, 2020 at 4:28 p.m.
Thread: My 2020 Draft is better than experts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>tkecanuck341</b></div><div>I didn't say that the players this year were any more or less ready than other years, just that you shouldn't draft for immediate needs in any draft. Some players might be ready sooner than others, some players might take longer. By focusing on immediate needs, you're doing a disservice to the development process of each individual prospect and are preemptively rushing his development.

If the overall pipeline needs are at forward, then the Hawks would be best served by taking a forward (I admittedly don't follow the Hawks pipeline that closely). However, with guys like Kane, Toews, DeBrincat, Kubalik, and Dach likely to be mainstays in the lineup for the next 4-5 years, it hardly seems like that's an immediate concern.</div></div>

You forgot strome! Quinn is a guy the Hawks are looking at closely as well as Sanderson and Lundell according to reports out of Chicago. Look at the impact Dach made. This year is much deeper the last so the Hawks at the #9 or #10 pick take a guy that will help them in a couple years or sooner. Any goalie is way too big of a risk in the first round. First round goalies have the lowest percentage chance of reaching their predraft predictions...it's a widely known thing and a large majority of the best goalies in the league over the last 20 years were taken in late rounds. If you are a team rebuilding then Askarov makes sense a 9 or 10, if you're a team retooling on the fly, he doesn't.