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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames

I'm not going to keep debating this because all the facts are already on the table.

What facts?

The only facts you've shown are that Weisbrod (but not Weisbrod exclusively) was publically very high on Jankowski. That's it. That does not mean Wiesbrod overrode Button during the draft with an off-the-Flames-board pick.

Please explain why Weisbrod was hired as Assistant GM if not to give advice to feaster? When I say he's 'a hockey guy' that means he knows how to evaluate players (or at least should).

Weisbrod was hired as an Assistant GM. Last I checked, an assistant GM is not the Head of Amateur Scouting. If Weisbrod had any particular say into Jankowski, then he did equally so for Poirier, Klimchuk, Sieloff, Kulak, Culkin, Monahan, Kanzig, Gilmour, Gillies. Especially the 2013 Trio of first rounders. Weisbrod had input. Of course he did. That does not mean he undercut Tod Button. No source has confirmed anything of the sort. Jankowski as a pick is very much like the Gaudreau pick, a reach on a high risk high reward player.

Drafting is a full process, it wasn't just "Wiesbrod decided to draft Jankowksi, so we did".

Button really wanted Weisbrod to see Jankowski because this was a high school program that was out of the way, meaning lots of scouts wouldn't be interested to go view the team.

Now why would Button really want Weisbrod to see Jankowski, if Button, our Head Scout, was not really high on Jankowski?

It was an off-the-board selection in their eyes,

Please show me the quote from a Flames executive that says this.

but according to this very reliable source, all signs point to Weisbrod who was at the table and got Feaster to draft him.

Please show me the quote that says this. because "all signs" don't point to anything other than fan speculation.

Conroy was very high on Sam Bennett, too. I'm sure if you look up enough "sources" you can twist it so that "all signs" point to Conroy deciding we take Bennett even if it was a no-brainer pick.

"All signs" only point to Jankowski being heavily scouted by many different people in the Flames organization, and them coming to a collective consensus that he was the BPA on Tod Button's draft board.