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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
No they don't always say that and they certainly don't talk the kid up the way they talked up Jankowksi. I've watched the last 18 or so drafts and seen hundreds of interviews with GMs. You guys are not acknowledging the difference between what Feaster said last year and the usual speech given.
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Well the fact remains that they risked losing Jankowski too by trading down and giving several other teams a chance to pick him. If they had him so high and clearly ahead of the rest, why did they take that risk? I think the safe assumption is that they simply had several players pretty much even, whatever their exact order on their list, and therefore didn't really mind losing any specific one to other teams.