A team makes different decisions regarding rooster depending on whether it sees itself as a contendor or whether it is going into a rebuilding period.
A team that is a contendor and so doesn't have space for its draftees uses its contendor status to keep them happy, they get to come up and hang with the team in the playoffs etc and although there is less chance of getting in, the teams status means that the payoff for making the team is higher, playoffs etc and also the draftee knows the team is 'cutting edge' in its approach to hockey as thats why its a contendor.
A draftee on a rebuilding team gets an easier chance to make the show, but on a crappier team.
Right now the Flames are neither, they arn't a contendor and yet pick their rooster as if they are one. It is a situation that will make it harder to please their draft picks in general.
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