Mark Yannetti talks about the draft, past drafts and more

ATKM said:


It's also available as an audio podcast on the All The Kings Men podcast feed.

These are always my favorite conversations and this one didn't disappoint.
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Good listen, helped me get through my gym workout yesterday. Always like hearing his perspective, incredibly smart hockey mind.
 
drums4dmf said:
Great listen as usual w/ Mark. Always interesting hearing about his process, especially the tiers.. Not to mention that Holland gave him the greenlight to completely handle the draft.
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This is by far the best move by the Kings management since Kuz trade.
 
Halfwall said:
I hope to never hear "you always take the best player available" again. As we all know, that is complete bullshit.
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Yeah I’m always curious about that, especially when Yanetti says they were taking Doughty even if they had the first overall pick. Did they really believe that Drew was better than Stamkos? No knock against Drew, he’s an all time King and very likely a HOF’er, but Stamkos is a lock for first ballot HOF. Or perhaps the ‘BPA’ mantra came to fruition after those ’draft for need’ stretches the Kings made early in Lombardi’s tenure with Hickey and Teubert?
 
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DarkLeftHand said:
Yeah I’m always curious about that, especially when Yanetti says they were taking Doughty even if they had the first overall pick. Did they really believe that Drew was better than Stamkos? No knock against Drew, he’s an all time King and very likely a HOF’er, but Stamkos is a lock for first ballot HOF. Or perhaps they ‘BPA’ mantra came to fruition after that’s ’draft for need’ stretches the Kings made early in Lombardi’s tenure with Hickey and Teubert?
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Probably.

BPA seems ridiculous as you can't know who the BPA even is. But if 10/10 scouts in your house recommends player X or Y and you take Z because you like certain intangibles he has and you get eventually burned, then...well, you should've taken the player the scouts recommended to you.

But I'm not too worried. Whatever the scouting team was doing for the past 5+ years, I think they did a very good job, unless a lot of picks were Rob going against the scouts, in which case we're potentially forked.
 
DarkLeftHand said:
Yeah I’m always curious about that, especially when Yanetti says they were taking Doughty even if they had the first overall pick. Did they really believe that Drew was better than Stamkos? No knock against Drew, he’s an all time King and very likely a HOF’er, but Stamkos is a lock for first ballot HOF. Or perhaps the ‘BPA’ mantra came to fruition after those ’draft for need’ stretches the Kings made early in Lombardi’s tenure with Hickey and Teubert?
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I think that the Stamkos/Doughty thing is pretty much a wash at this point and would not change the pick given what transpired. Anchored our defense to 2 stanley cups, won a norris...I can live with that. It's the $11M contract that's killing people, especially as his level of play has diminished with age. I'm sure the Kings knew this would be a problem eventually and they were willing to live with it...I think they hoped there would be an extra cup or 2 based on the money they paid him and Kopi but they failed to bring in the supporting talent to do that. At the end of the day, I really don't play the "what if" game on something like this...very happy with our 2 cups and Dewey.
 
LAKingSteve said:
I think that the Stamkos/Doughty thing is pretty much a wash at this point and would not change the pick given what transpired. Anchored our defense to 2 stanley cups, won a norris...I can live with that. It's the $11M contract that's killing people, especially as his level of play has diminished with age. I'm sure the Kings knew this would be a problem eventually and they were willing to live with it...I think they hoped there would be an extra cup or 2 based on the money they paid him and Kopi but they failed to bring in the supporting talent to do that. At the end of the day, I really don't play the "what if" game on something like this...very happy with our 2 cups and Dewey.
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I think you’re missing the point of my statement. It’s not a debate about whether Drew or Stamkos was the better player, but about the veracity of Yannetti’s claim itself.. and whether they believed Drew to be the better player. That being said, it could’ve been a wash in their eyes, and they then reverted to draft based on need, if all else was equal to the scouts
 
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DarkLeftHand said:
Yeah I’m always curious about that, especially when Yanetti says they were taking Doughty even if they had the first overall pick. Did they really believe that Drew was better than Stamkos? No knock against Drew, he’s an all time King and very likely a HOF’er, but Stamkos is a lock for first ballot HOF. Or perhaps the ‘BPA’ mantra came to fruition after those ’draft for need’ stretches the Kings made early in Lombardi’s tenure with Hickey and Teubert?
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I don't know about either Doughty being a possible HOF'er or Stamkos being a lock for 1st ballot HOF'er .They both should gp in but Doughty seems more of a lock to me. And I believe Mark when he says that Doughty was the BPA & they would've taken him 1st. But I can't help thinking need was a factor. They already had Kopitar as a #1 center but they didn't have a #1 defenseman. And there were 4 D-men out of the top 5. They had to get one & Doughty's proved over the years that he was the best.
 
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