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Old 04-12-2014, 05:28 PM   #644
J epworth
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Originally Posted by Tbull8 View Post
Amazing draft by the Flames

Baertschi, Granlund, Wotherspoon, Gaudreau, and Brossoit
We flip Brossoit for Smid so every player from that draft essentially will have suited up for us this year.
And even Brossoit, though it was just to be a body on the bench, has already been called up with the Oilers once this season, so now every one will have had a taste of the NHL in some form now. That's some pretty astronomical odds to go 5 for 5 in a draft.

EDIT: just looking back, probably our second best draft for efficiency, especially if Brossoit ends up playing a game at some point. We've had a few drafts with 6 players and 2 with 7 players going on to play games in the NHL, but in those years we still had quite of few misses.

Best one probably 1992, 7 out of 11 players drafted ended up playing NHL games, Stillman ended up with over 1000, and Svehla and Hoglund both ended up with over 500.

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