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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
lol
All the other positions are much easier to fill. Finding #1 Cs is next to impossible, other than drafting top 3. The Flames, with no top C for the past 20 years, know this better than any team - as do the fans, as per all the conversations about it over the last several years and at the time f the Janko pick.
They took a shot and it was an intelligently calculated gamble. We'll see if it pays off. But this new hind-sight, flavor-of-the-day view that the Flames were in no position to gamble is laughable.
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Evidently Brian Burke would disagree with you.
When asked why he let Feaster and Weisbrod go he mentioned poor trading value and drafting. Using the powers of deduction what could he have meant? He said that the Flames did the best in 2013 and certainly likes both Monahan and Klimchuk at least. 2011 looks like a great draft but that's on Todd Button almost entirely. So what we're left with is the 2012 draft that Weisbrod stated he had more or less control over. To the point that he scouted Jankowski personally.
If Burke thinks that drafting was a problem there's really only one culprit and that's the first round pick in 2012 (and likely the trade down as well which has Weisbrod all over it).
So if Burke citing the 2012 draft as a reason for letting Feaster go clearly he disagrees with almost all of the above. That the Flames weren't in a position to take a gamble like that and it wasn't intelligent. Now sure, you can disagree with Burke all you like but it seams that it wasn't just Burke that disagreed with it. Burke arrived to this conclusion by polling other NHL execs to get their thoughts. Evidently they must not have been too supportive either.
To wrap it up, it was a gamble yes, certainly, a stupid gamble that is only looking stupider as Jankowski treads water and other prospects we could have easily picked with a Mckeen's draft guide bought the day of the draft are in the NHL playing games or captaining the Team Canada Junior squad.