It's too early to make declarations any which way, but I felt like since the draft that Conroy and Co were strangely bullish and set on this kid even though there were a lot of strong talents to pick from at their position.
I think they might've had some tunnel vision and while it may not come back to bite them necessarily, there's a good chance they passed up a better NHLer that was an obvious choice even then. i.e. Perreault
Time will tell. I just don't like the limited sample size of "elite" play they had to go off of in his draft year.
Hopefully this is the Flames' Gabriel Landeskog and we're eating crow in a couple years.
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