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Originally Posted by Vulcan
To my way of looking at it, the Flames have been gambling and making poor draft choices for years
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I disagree. Apart from Jankowski I don't think they've made any particular "gambles" at least not more then any draft pick is a gamble. The essense of a gamble is that you're exchanging risk for reward... I don't think Sutter was doing that. I actually think Sutter was drafting what he thought was safely... avoiding smaller players, avoiding Russians, making niche longterm "replacement" picks... I don't know what you want to call Sutter's drafting strategy (other then bad) but whatever you want to call it he certainly wasn't trading risk for reward.