It has been a long, long time since I smoked pot.
About 30 years ago, someone sold me some "Jamaican".... but it was Columbian laced with PCP.
Messed me up so bad that all I could do was sit on the bench in the pool hall and watch the second hand on my watch ever so slowly move around the dial. And with each heartbeat, those ticks got slower and slower to the point that I thought time itself had almost stopped. And nothing I could do could speed things back up.... nothing could stop the thousands of thoughts that cascaded through my mind.
Tick.........
This draft brought back that feeling.
Start the draft already! Call your picks!
With such equally balanced high end talent in this draft, how can you waste any assets to move up? Likewise, as this is the highest Calgary has ever drafted, how can you move DOWN? Who is going to be the best player in the long run? How will they be impacted by the team that drafts and develops them?
Tick........
The safe bet is that the Flames simply take whatever remains in the Fab 4. By that thinking then you have a plethora of possibilities on who will remain, and why.
Does Florida trade their pick? Does Buffalo? Heck, even Edmonton could. Who are the new players in any of those events and what are their desires?
Could any of those possibilities THEN cause the Flames to make a move? If so how?
Tick........
All four have their strengths and weaknesses. And with every draft, you just cannot rule out that someone else might actually turn out even better.
Perhaps I should just hop in my car and try to time travel ahead 15 years or so to see how things shake out. Governor will probably kick in at 84 though....
Tick........
Start the bloody draft already... PLEASE!!!
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