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Originally Posted by FAN
When it comes to draft picks, it seems easy to forget the circumstances surrounding the pick.
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The biggest issues for us fans was that Maata was the consensus highest rated guy on the board at the time and Girgensons and Teravainen were the guys the Flames were bypassing by trading down. THOSE were the choices facing management at the time.
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Rightly or wrongly (and obviously some of the posters believe wrongly) the scouting staff and GM felt that the "consensus highest rated" players were not likely to have the same upside as Jankowski, whom they expected would take longer to develop than some of the choices that were available. It's still too early to say their choice has no chance of being a good one, and this is hardly the first time a scouting staff has passed over players who later turn out to be solid NHLers. However, the time to argue the merits of the Flames' decision has long passed. That flogged dead horse should have decayed to dust by now.