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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
Believe it was hyping him up. If you listen to Todd Button's interview at the draft with the wrap-up, he gets asked that very question. He actually refuted it, saying something like: "Well, there were some other guys we really liked like Finn, ..."
If I remember correctly, it almost sounded like the Flames preferred Finn over Sieloff. One thing I really disliked a lot about Feaster was him feeling like he has to 'hype up' the draft picks, and it seemed it flowed into Weisbrod as well. Button's interviews offer way much more insight I found.
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Yeah Tod Button for some reason gets crisism when drafts go bad, but not enough credit when drafts go well. I'm not a draft expert, but I've read some in depth interviews from Tod Button and there is a good reason Button has survived 4 regime changes here.
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I think you need to hype up your recently selected prospects at the draft, and say good things about them when warranted. They just went so over the top trying to sell hope. Every organization hypes up their picks, but this was way too much. Embarrassing to the team I thought, and could have been detrimental to a guy like Jankowski especially with so much unnecessary pressure being heaped on him (not to mention that backlash of ridicule I am sure he became keenly aware of after the fact).
It also made the organization have reek of "we are so much smarter than everyone else" rather than just letting your body of work speak for itself. If you really are smarter than everyone else, the other people unaffiliated with your organization will be the ones that should be declaring that... especially if you win the cup with a core that you drafted and developed yourself.
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Yeah you see a lot of GM's who really know and understand the upbringing of a prospect, and how they play the media.... don't want to dig into this again, but hard for a non-hockey guy to understand if they didn't really understand the culture or have a upbringing of hockey.