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Originally Posted by Ottomatic
I compare Bateman more to Grant Webermin or even Jesse Blacker. Both kids seemingly could never please the Spit coaching for whatever reason and were traded away. Webermin has 9 points already this year, would be tops among all Spit defencemen in scoring.
It's like the Spits draft a smallish offensive defenceman and if he's not Ryan Ellis he's in the dog house.
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My buddy and I were talking about this on the way to Sarnia on Thurs. That's exactly the point I brought up; we draft smaller guys in hopes they become Ellis 2.0, but it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do that. Instead of making an Ellis 2.0, they need to make a (insert future star) 1.0.