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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
The scouting has been one issue, no doubt, but I wonder how much of it is also the fact that Sutter has traded away so many picks, seconds and thirds and so forth.
There's a bit of an optical illusion in there: you can always argue that trading away a pick for an established NHLer is good because there's only such and such chance that the pick will amount to anything, but the problem is that if you don't have those picks, you're guaranteed never to get any good young player for them. You get an NHLer (who may be gone in a couple of years), but you get zero chance of getting a good prospect. That accumulates as you keep trading away your picks.
It's about having enough picks just as much as it is about the scouting.
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This.
In another thread we compared success in drafting to having high amounts of picks and there is a very strong correlation.
The Flames have had both low draft position and a low number of picks. Can't expect to have the best prospects in the league with both of those factors.