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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
...We really need to pick one if the last four, it's just going with the safer pick that has a better chance of reaching their potential.
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Maybe it will, maybe it won't. This is an optics argument, and I am quite convinced that the Flames are not interested in making this pick based on whom the consensus deems to be the "safest" selection. The bottom line is that the Flames have their own list. They have compiled this list from their own EXHAUSTIVE investigations of EVERY player. They employ a small army of professional scouts to give their opinion precisely about who might very well be the best player in the draft, and if that player happens to fall outside of the "top four", then that is who the Flames will pick.
Quite frankly, you have no idea who has the "better chance" of reaching their potential from scouting lists and media generated projections. But I'm betting that the Flames do, and not because of who appeared on the cover of
The Hockey News.