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Originally Posted by New Era
Or is it just tempering expectations based on past events? It doesn't take a lot to reach way back into the archives and pull up clippings about how Dan Tkachuk was going to be the next Steve Yzerman or Oleg Saprykin was going to be the next Alexander Mogilny or Rico Fata was going to be the next Rico Fata (Rico is so legendary that he was comared to himself before he was drafted). Every draft these kids get compared to hall of fame players and have to live that down for the rest of their lives. I just don't think that is fair.
I think the best thing the Flames have done in years is to draft Jankowski. Completely off the board and the fans had absolutely no comparisons to hang around this kid's neck. He was just a draft pick that we had to judge based on his talent. He can develop as he needs to and no one should be disappointed because there are so little expectations on him. But now we're going to draft some poor schmuck that is going to have the weight of a hall of famer and the expectations of a franchise on his back from day one. It isn't fair to the player and it certainly isn't fair to fans. Just floating that out there.
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I'm surprised that you like the Jankowski pick, considering your favourite guy Craig Button (ran us into the ground apparently) was pushing him HARD in the weeks before the draft. I was really hoping we'd take that guy, and mostly because of the scouting reports of said Mr Button. I think it's a good pick, but there's HUGE bust potential there (especially concerning when you consider he was Button's guy).
We've been burned plenty of times with our top draft picks, so I can completely understand the need to temper expectations. It's debatable whether it's been bad scouting, bad development, bad coaching, bad luck or some perfect storm of all the above that has caused nearly all of our top picks to flop. What's funny is the Tkaczuk pick seemed to be the "safe" pick at the time! Fata and Saprykin were very off-the-board if I recall correctly.