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Old 05-31-2014, 01:51 PM   #1
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Default Flames considering up to 8 guys for #4

didn't want this to get buried in the Combine thread:

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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire View Post
Hope this isn't a fata.

Tod Button on the Flames' fourth overall. Don't know if I should be worried or not about this:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=29795

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"It would be easy to say whoever is there at four we'll take at No. 4, but our group is bigger," Flames director of amateur scouting Tod Button said. "We have six, seven, eight guys and we're still sorting that out and this is part of the process."

Making the job harder for scouts is the unique skill sets some of the top prospects bring. Samuel Bennett, Sam Reinhart and Leon Draisaitl all are centers, but each brings something different to the table.

You've got three really good centers, but they're all different style centers," Button said. "So I think you're trying to sort out the styles as much as anything to figure out how to close that gap. If you had three like-minded or three with similar playing styles then it's a little easier, you just do it. But they're different style players so it's a little more to sort out. It's exciting. It's not easy and it's not supposed to be easy. But it's fun to do. It's a fun process to go through."
Button also says neither Burke or Treliving has directed him to rank players any differently or based on size or truclence.
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