Quick Weekend Notes

I don’t disagree with you on any of those points, but the fact remains you should NOT use the location of a players birth as a measuring stick for their value (other intangibles like a KHL jump threat are individual, for every Radulov there is a Malkin).
I want the BEST players on my team, its that simple. Maybe I am coming off like I am only counting skill in my definition of best. I am not. Best all around, most tallented, most heart, most drive. All together.
amazing all around players come from all over the world, not just Canada, Modano, Malkin, Roenick, Ovechkin, Hasek, Leetch I could go on forever and I would take them over lesser Canadian players any day

using 5th round draft picks is a bit of a stretch because it takes the crap shoot that is the draft and turns it onto throwing darts in the dark, you have a good idea where the board is and where you want to hit, but the chance of a bulls eye is astronomical.
Bourque is looking like a great sleeper pick, but he lasted to the 132nd pick for a reason.
Knodel is a project and a half, he is also more than half a foot taller than Borque and almost 70lbs heavier.

@Diggler
I’m not saying it was the right choice, I’m just saying at the draft, especially in the later rounds drafting an over sized player is a safer bet than drafting an undersized one. You cant teach height.