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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
For example in '96 the Flames go WAY off the board and take Derek Morris who was ranked 80th or 90th something on Central Scouting. Other teams were openly laughing at the pick. Turns out the Flames were right.
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But that was still a bad pick. If you have good intel that Morris won't go until the second round or at least the end of the first you trade down. There is no point in going way off board. You are just wasting assets.
Thats why I like what the flames did with Jankowski. Of the players left we had our first pick Jankowski was the top of our list. The flames seeing that the other teams willing to take a flyer on Jankowski were down in the 20-30 range so we trade down to pick him. Using a first on Morris despite him being a good first round pick in that draft was not maximizing assets when we could have had him with a late first or second round pick.