6/10 Adequate, but needs improvement.
Getting a 10/10 would be the best draft possible. To me, this would have meant making moves to trade up and get Barkov, while keeping the 6th overall, or something else comparable to Burke landing both Sedins. 10/10 should mean "wow"ing the hockey world. As opposed to "Well, they didn't **** up completely."
9/10 would mean moving up into the top 4, or trading for a 1st liner, and picking up some sliders with the later round picks.
That is not what happened, however. With their three 1st rounders, they only got one guy projected to be a 1st round pick.
No, I don't evaluate prospects for a living. But McKenzie, Pronman, THN, Central Scouting, etc, all do. And they, along with every other person/group that I know of who does evaluate prospects, think that the Flames did not get the best players available to them.
Loads of people post the rhetorical question "Well if you're just going to follow the consensus, what's the point of having your own scouting staff?"
Well, what indeed is the point in having your own staff if they are no better than a dog-eared copy of The Hockey News?
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