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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Calgary has done a much better job in drafting of late
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People always say it. Every year it seems like drafting has improved lately.
And how exactly did it improve?
2007 — Backlund made NHL. Keith Aulie turned into bubble NHLer.
2008 — Brodie made NHL. Nemisz played 15 NHL games.Bouma has had 23.
2009 — Tim Erixon is the only player Flames drafted who at least had some NHL games.
2010 — picks have combined for 0 NHL games this far (we had no 1st mind you)
2011 — Baertschi has played some games and looks promising. Lower ranks are too early to tell.
What we have for last 5 drafts (2012 exluded) is just Backlund, Brodie and Baertchi. I don't see how it is much better than say 2004 draft when we got Prust, Boyd and Pardy at the very same draft. Or 2003 when we got Phaneuf. Or 2002 when we got Lombardi, Nystrom and McElhinney. I don't see how drafting had improved much "lately".