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Originally Posted by strombad
If you call it 6 years, then Calgary is already in year 4 comparatively.
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Just to emphasize how wrong this point is:
Since 2006 (the draft after the lockout)
The Blues have had the following number of picks:
2006: 9 (two 1st rounders, two 4th rounders)
2007: 10 (three 1st rounders, 2 2nd rounders, 2 4th rounders)
2008: 10 (two 2nd rounders, three 3rd rounders)
2009: 6 (no 5th rounder)
2010: 7 (two 1st rounders)
2011: 8 (no 1st rounder, three 2nd rounders)
2012: 8 (two 3rd rounder)
The Flames since their rebuild began according to you four years ago:
2009: 6 (no 2nd rounder)
2010: 6 (no 1st or 2nd rounder, two 3rd and 4th rounders)
2011: 5 (two 2nd rounders)
2012: 7
2013: 8 (three 1st rounders, no 2nd rounder)
The only draft, that looks anything close to St Louis' rebuild to (successfully) build a contender is the most recent draft, the first year of Calgary's rebuild. If we want to emulate St. Louis' model then we ship guys like Cammelleri off and stock pile draft picks so that we're picking more than seven times in a draft.