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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Are you sure these are "anomalies"? Based on what? This is why I have asked you to prove it.
Because I am not a scout or a professional observer who watches these players for hours every day, all I have to go on is the word of those who do. So here's the rub: because I am not making these decisions, I can happily concede that my own feelings about who is the better pick are likely to be quite often wrong or poorly informed. The Flames extensively scouted Jankowski and determined through multiple viewings and by virtue of a number of important contributing factors that he was the player with the highest long-term potential in the draft. That sounds to me like the right way to go about this, and I don't believe we should expect from them anything different.
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You're ridiculous, you're asking me to prove that higher ranked players are better than lower players or is it NHL players are better than minor league players? Sure there are some anomalies and failures from year to year and things change but I'll put my money on the NHL player and after that, the higher ranked or drafted player.
You're not a scout and I'm not a scout but I take an interest, have played team sports and coached, and form opinions and over the years have collected some history on how teams function and how players turn out. As for trusting in Feaster's management to guide the Flames, he didn't have a better handle on grading players than you have, that's why he delegated the duties. Still as GM he was the one to set the guidelines for the scouts. They would work within the framework that he and his Asst. set. That framework was leading us on a downward path and the whole team became too small and so were his draft picks. As Burke said, it was one of the reasons he got fired, so I wouldn't put my faith in the Flames when they picked Janko. To hear the snowstorm story told, Weisbrod had already decided to take Janko after he first saw him so, having other scouts look at him became a case of confirmation bias. As far as I'm concerned the Janko pick was another case of Feaster and friend trying to show how smart they were.
As GM, delegating the hockey duties may be fine if Feaster excelled at the business side but this is where his biggest failure was. It was freakin amateur hour while Feaster was in charge and I don't have any trust in what he did.
As for Janko, yeah he's on track for what was expected of him, it's just that what is expected of him isn't as good as others drafted near him, so IMO he wasn't worth our first round pick. Now if we would have gotten him in the second round, he'd probably be a fine pick. I sincerely hope he makes it but he's on a long track developmental curve and the longer the track the more potential for derailment.