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Originally Posted by Yoho
Poor drafting has a negative effect on the team period, especially when you go off the board to do it.
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Yeah, you seem to have missed this part of my post:
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
...I guess my point is that so long as the team is competent, these things will tend to even themselves out in the end.
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Of course poor drafting will have a negative effect on the team. I think that is pretty obvious, but I don't see how that in any way extends to the Jankowski pick. It MIGHT be a bad pick (we don't know yet, and won't for some time), but it is surrounded by a whole lot of very good picks. The Flames seem to have drafted quite well in the past few years, which fits precisely with what I posted: if Jankowski doesn't pan out, chances are that another player unexpectedly will (Granlund? Gaudreau? Klimchuk? Reinhart? Arnold? Ferland?