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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Why did the Flames pass on Hunter, and take Emile? Because after all the viewings, analysis, interviews - THEIR consensus was that Emile was the better prospect. It is as simple as that. Vancouver disagrees.
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A good posting, but I'd just like to comment on this bit;
We don't even know that Vancouver disagrees. All we know is that Vancouver liked Shinkaruk better than anyone else available to them. For all we know the Canucks too might have gone for Poirier instead of Shinkaruk.
That's one of the reasons why I dislike the lengthy overanalysis of the draft after the fact: just too much guessing going on.
Same with trading down; you can never know what would have happened, because it didn't.