Originally Posted by azzarish
A few questions to everyone on the board that I’m really interested to hear people’s viewpoints on:
1. The organizational need versus best player available always surfaces prior to the draft. If you’re in the BPA camp and Connor, Merkley or Konecny are all available at #15, would you draft one of them knowing that they’re all centers and we’re pretty deep down the middle for a good few years with Monahan, Bennett, Backlund, and Jankowski? Basically putting aside positional need for the BPA.
Merkley and Konecny are both players that I think are going to be RW's when all is said and done. I am unsure on Connor, I think he'd be a great center behind Monahan, but he'd also be a good second line LW as well. Probably depends on if Bennett is better at playing LW or C.
You always go for BPA, and when your team is eventually contending, you start trading for positional needs.
2. Would you still go ahead and pick Merkley and Konecny knowing what Burke has said about the team needing to get bigger, as both aren’t the biggest?
They stated that they'd draft by skill before size, so I think we'd find size a different way (via trade, later round drafting).
3. Do you think the defensive prospect pool is deep enough (Wotherspoon, Sieloff, Morrison, Kanzig, Hickey) to not draft a defenseman at #15?
It's not deep enough, but we still need secondary scoring as as defense. I personally prefer a forward in the 1st round and defensemen in the 2nd, but I wouldn't hate picking a defenseman first.
4. If you’re answer to the above is yes, then do you believe that anyone from the prospect pool has elite potential/quality that would justify you not drafting that defenseman at #15?
Hickey is actually probably the one that comes out of nowhere, much like TJ.
5. And finally, do you think it is worth moving up in this draft in order to draft Provorov or Werenski and possibly obtain an elite quality defenseman? And if so, what would you give up to make it happen?
Absolutely. If Treliving magically finds a way to move into the top 10 and picks up Provorov or Werenski, all Flames' fans should be cheering in the streets.
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