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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.
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".
Now why would Button really want Weisbrod to see Jankowski, if Button, our Head Scout, was not really high on Jankowski
Please show me the quote from a Flames executive that says this.
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.
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I cannot believe I'm wasting more time giving you sources...
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/bu...052648549.html
An exec (weisbrod) saying what I said:
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We knew he was playing in a league where people would undervalue him, playing weaker competition, playing in obscure places."
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Here's weisbrod pumping up Jankowski to Flames scouts..
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Like I've been saying to our scouts all week long, 'He's Joe Nieuwendyk.'
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Weisbrod saying he didn't think Janko would make it past the first round:
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“I don’t want to share anyone’s business,” said Weisbrod, “but I know he wouldn’t have made it through [the first round]. I know at least two teams that would have taken him. We knew we had to take him [Friday] — it was just a matter of where.”
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Now please drop it..