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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
It's not obtuse at all. Anyone claiming the Flames made a mistake / went off the board before the book is written on the player (and it isn't), is claiming they'd have known better than those amateur scouts who actually watch these prospects for a living. There are overreactions every year by fanbases when a draft doesn't follow the CSS rankings (and it never does). Words used are "reach" and "steal". But drafts shake out the way they do for reasons that people on a forum are not privy to. Scouts make mistakes all the time, whether their draft picks resemble the "rankings" doesn't matter because the rankings themselves are made by scouts who make mistakes all the time.
It's as arrogant to think you've got a better read on not only Jankowski, but Teravainen/Maatta/Hertl etc than the staff of Tod Button, and yes, everyone's favorite "I don't even know what he does" John Weisbrod. These guys watch every player live multiple times, and they watch things that aren't seen on camera, they watch the bad as much as they watch the good, and their job is to project long term, not short-term. We don't usually do any of that.
Personally I don't even think the book on Sven Baertschi is written, and this is a project player from a more recent draft.
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This exact same logic is being used when everyone declare Kylington a steal and the team's top prospect because he was ranked way above where the Flames ended up getting him.
I'm fine with disagreeing with it, but need to be consistent in applying it to players picked above where they were slotted and also players picked later than expected.