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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Most you can drop is one pick. Not sure how you could be getting a good pick and get leapfrogged and still not be getting a good pick. If we finish last and get leapfrogged and get the 2nd pick, oh well! If we finish 4th and get leapfrogged and get the 5th pick, oh well!
Flames had never had a top 5 pick in their history.
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Not entirely true, the Calgary Flames have not, but Atlanta did, Jacques Richard was the #2 pick in the expansion season, and Tom Lysiak was a 2 pick the next year. Of course the Islanders got Denis Potvin with their pick in 73.
As for moving back one spot in a draft....look at 2004, and if you were one of the two worst teams and got jumped over, you got screwed. No one else in that draft was even close to Malkin or Ovechkin. Even this year it could be a big deal to get bumped down from 4 to 5.