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Old 06-22-2012, 08:23 PM   #135
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Originally Posted by JayP View Post
I really hate statements like these.

When your assistant GM is making the call on who they're drafting after one viewing it's not a good thing. Pretty much a slap in the face to all the scouts who watch hundreds of games all year. You can't accurately scout a guy in that short a time period. I'm sure the Flames did their due diligence afterwards, but when the assistant GM is making statements like that it's going to be pretty tough to override that first impression.
I don't think that's how it went down at all. Much more likely Button and his scouts did their due diligence on Jankowski and then called out the AGM to take a peak. Either way I like the pick, we need high risk/high reward types IMO.

The really interesting thing I'd like to know more about (and really wish Miller had asked about when he had the chance) is the potential trading of the 1st round pick. The way Feaster phrased his conversation with Weisbrod it sounded like trading the pick was basically in the bag until Weisbrod viewed Jankowski. Would love to know who and/or what Feaster had planned to trade it for.
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