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Originally Posted by Robbob
I don't know if the flames would have been worse then Edmonton, Florida, and Colorado. Would they be much farther ahead with Strome or the players drafted after the three really bad teams? That draft year and the one after were pretty poor drafts. I don't know if the Flames would be much farther ahead if they blew things up that year.
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Firstly the 2011 draft is looking like one of the deepest drafts in recent memory. The top half of that draft with Nuge, Landeskog, Huberdeau, Brodin, Couturier all looking very good. Players like Sven, Zibenijad, Schiefele, Hamilton, Larsson are all very promising. It is looking strong in the late rounds as well. Saad was a 2nd rounder, Gaudreau was a 4th rounder.
The Flames would have likely tanked in the 2nd half instead of surged and likely could have landed a top 5 pick that year + had Schenn/Simmonds etc who they would have got for trading their key pieces then.
Iggy, Tangs, Olli, Glencross, Bourque, Regehr all would have held decent trade value then. Maybe only Glencross and Bouw would have had worse value that year than they do today.