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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
We're talking about a potential top 3 or first overall pick here.
The difference in 5 years could be o'reilly vs. seguin/toews/landeskog/duchene/pat Kane...... Real franchise players.
That is what is one of the most damning things to me. It's a top 5 with potential to be even higher. In another year if you are picking 20-30, maybe it's a bit better gamble.
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The Flames aren't in the top 5 today. Give them O'Reilly, Kiprusoff and Backlund and there is very little reason to think they would fall into it.
Sure, if you're advocating tanking and going full on rebuild that's a philosophy difference, and while I don't quite support it there's hard denying this would be a good year to do it in.
But if we're just talking the difference between, let's say, 10-20 pick and O'Reilly I'd take O'Reilly.