The only thing that grinds my gears about this trade is that it is yet another (over hyped?) first rounder that didn't pan out for the Flames. It is the wrong way to look at it, but it feels like we traded the 13th overall pick for a 2nd rounder. The resulting question is how much value should we really put into 1st round picks?
Year.....Player Name..........Games with the Flames
2004.....Kris Chucko...........2GP
2005.....Matt Pelech..........13GP
2006.....Leland Irving.........13GP
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2007.....Mikael Backlund.....278GP
2008.....Greg Nemisz..........15GP(Traded so not to extend him)
2009.....Tim Erixon.............0GP(Didn't want to play for CGY)
2010.....N/A
2011.....Sven Bartschi........66GP(Didn't want to play for CGY)
2012.....Mark Jankowski......0GP(Huge question marks)
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Here is where we finally struck gold
2013....Sean Monahan.......137GP
*Poirier, Klimchuk, and Bennett are looking good so far, I am just afraid to over hype our first round picks one more time.
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