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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
GM's don't draft, scouts do. GM's can have influence on 1st round picks if they want but a lot of them leave it up to their scouting department.
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Yeah, I'm sure it varies from team-to-team on how much influence a GM has. We've seen Feaster talk about his time in Tampa Bay saying he wanted beef at one point and really messed up the drafting there. We've heard Tod Button speak how the Flames shifted towards players with skill and smarts above all in more recent years as well,
Scouts do the scouting, but GM's form how that draft list will shape up ultimately.
During his drafts in Calgary Feaster seemed to set the focus on smart hockey players above all and then let the scouts develop a list off that focus for example.