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Originally Posted by Pointman
That's exactly the point. Feaster openly gambled on Weisbrod&co being smarter than seven other organizations. Nobody knows how it will turn out, but it's risky to say the least.
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The thing is, who is to say that what other teams do?
The Flames have a system in place and they have made a bunch of picks that left other teams wishing that they had decided to pick higher. Baertschi last year was a home run, and Gaudreau seemingly has been one of the better picks in the later rounds and Brossoit did alright as well.
Some teams have poor scouting. If I recall correctly Buffalo does all their scouting by video and don't actually send people out to scout. The Flames were obviously being extremely thorough by scouting a guy in a high school league. Whether they over estimated his talents is yet to be seen, but using the excuse that all these other teams skipped them means that it was a bad pick is kind of bs.
Teams have different metrics and needs. Tampa needed a goalie, and took the best one. Several D-men were taken. The forwards were either Teravainen or two way guys that are a bit tougher. You also don't know of the scouts that saw him, if any of them were from the teams between 14 and 21.
You can get quality from anywhere and on paper Jankowski has as much or better upside than most of the forwards in the draft, with the only drawback that he'll take a couple years to see whether you're getting a Joe Nieuwendyk calibre player, or a Wayne Primeau calibre player.