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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Nothing that you posted shows a single thing about Wiesbrod power-tripping. At most it implies he was very high on the player, which was never denied.
In your own quotes, look how many times the word "we" pops up.
Of course if Weisbrod is the person being interviewed, a story is going to be slanted from his perspective.
Does it say at any point "some scouts disagreed with me, but I went ahead and did it"?
Does it even say "We had a few guys we were considering, but I liked Jankowski best?
Your "sources" are articles everyone has read before. They simply do not say John Weisbrod selected Mark Jankowski. They only prove that Weisbrod was one of the people who liked the player in the organaztion. Are you really trying to argue that because the player the organization selected was a player that a person within the organization liked, that one person selected the player overriding an entire scouting staff including the Head of Amateur Scouting?
And yes, Weisbrod didn't think the player would make it past the first round, because Weisbrod was privy to discussions within the Flames organization. How does that prove your UNFOUNDED implication that the rest of the scouting staff i.e. Tod Button thought the player would have been there at #42 or that there was a better player available according to Tod Button and his staff?
You are being absolutely ridiculous in singling out Weisbrod as the guy who drafted Jankowski. He scouted the player and he liked the player a lot. So did a LOT of other people in the organization, including Todd Button and a few other guys.
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Along with being asst. GM, Weisbrod was the Director of Scouting.
Watch this, it's evident that Weisbrod made the choice. "At the end of the day, it was up to me to make the call."
http://video.flames.nhl.com/videocen...sole?id=182588