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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
As a side, there was a time that the Flames were one of the more innovative drafting teams (drafting Makarov as an older European before it was popular, success at drafting from the U.S. college and university circuits while other teams overlooked them - often with late round picks). Now we seem to focus mostly on mainstream sources (CHL, with a few Europeans from Sweden and Finland, the occasion US university players). With late round picks, I'd love to see the Flames take a chance on some players from central and eastern europe (Russia, Czech Rep. and Slovakia) for a change. Countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway and Slovenia are starting to progress... do the Flames even send scouts to places like that?
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You don't see very many picks from central europe because as a whole, drafting out of central europe has dropped big time. There aren't even that many Russian players in the league right now.