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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Well if the comparison is Toews, he did fall to #3 because Jordan Staal went ahead of him. Looking back you'd have to think the Pens would have rather gotten Toews than Staal. In the future either Buffalo or EDM may have similar regrets about passing on Bennett and letting him fall to us if their guy doesn't measure up.
To some he did fall. Both CSS and Redline had him as the best player in the entire draft and we got him at 4. Falling is falling, doesn't have to be a huge fall IMO for it to be a fall.
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When I look back on drafts and how players develop, I often wonder if players would have turned out the way they did regardless of the team they were developed by or if team development enabled it.
Had Toews ended up in Pittsburgh and Staal in Chicago, would their careers have unfolded the same or would they have each others' careers, or somewhere in between.
I think back to the draft where the Flames traded down to get Kidd and NJ took Brodeur with the Flames pick. Had that trade not happened and Kidd went to NJ and Brodeur to the Flames, would the Flames have ruined Brodeur's development?
Anyway, I guess I'm always curious as to whether a player would have determined his own career or if it would have changed based on different development paths in different organizations.