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Old 11-04-2010, 02:12 PM   #123
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Originally Posted by Flame4Ever View Post
While I must congratulate the flames scouting staff on finding a great diamond in the rough in Patrick Holland who is ligting it up this year, I have to seriously question why they favoured bloodlines so much in last year's draft.
The Flames focused entirely on the WHL, which is going to come back and bit them hard.
Just because they took mostly WHL players does not mean they focused entirely on the WHL to the detriment of other leagues. Switch the draft order up and we might have ended up with mostly OHLers. I'm not sure why you assume they favour bloodlines either, perhaps they just happened to like those kids quite a bit? I don't think they went into the draft trying to accumulate sons of former NHLers.

You can't read as much into scouting trends as you are trying to.
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