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Originally Posted by dustygoon
Yikes. That hurts. Always hind site but the Macdonald pick and the smith pick were picks to fill needs. Someone is going to respond with I don't know the flames draft order...maybe smith was next but it obvious to me at least that those two picks were meant to fill organizational holes.
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I'm not convinced either of those picks were made based on "need". I think they legitimately liked Smith and think he had big upside to be a massive power forward. He was definitely a project pick and it's hard to judge that one yet. As for McDonald we were entering the range in the 2nd round where goalies typically start to go quite heavily. There hadn't been a goalie taken yet. I find it quite easy to believe that both McDonald and Demko were right up next on their list. In fact after the draft it was revealed they had someone higher on their list (who obviously wasn't a goalie) that got selected near the beginning of that 2nd round. Doesn't seem like they forced a goalie at all that year, I think they just had the goalies that high.