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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I'm not as convinced that we're a shoe in the next few years to get guys as good as MacKinnon/Barkov. Didn't this year show us how hard it is to get into the bottom 3? Our goaltending was absolutely abysmal and we still finished 6th last. I don't think we can count on a bottom 3 pick in either of the next two years. Any year we can trade up to take a guy that we think is a true franchise player I think you have to do it. The future holds no guarantees of franchise players.
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Well, we did go on a winning streak on the back of having a bunch of rookies making their NHL debuts after Iginla/Bouwmeester left. Usually, rookies play good for their first couple of games and then trail off. Unfortunately, in terms of our current draft pick, we kept putting new guys in that kept the spark going. If the season was 82 games, we likely would have been 5-10 points worse than everyone else.
Unless we somehow rip off several other teams for legit stars or #6 + Baertschi put up huge numbers, I don't see how we'll be able to get enough points in the standings to be better than other teams. We have no starting goalie, only 3 legit nhl D-men (Gio, Wideman, and Brodie), and 4 second liners in Tanguay, Cammalleri, Glencross and Baertschi. Other than the maybe Panthers, I don't think anyone is worse than the Flames over an 82 game season. Luck can sway a team a bit, but usually a team that's as bad overall as the Flames usually falls in the bottom 5 give or take.
Our team is currently worse than the Oilers teams that kept getting #1.