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Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Does anyone know who was responsible for first noticing Gaudreau? Was it Weisbrod? One of the scouts? Feaster? I've always been curious to who really noticed him and pushed the envelope to take a chance and draft him.

Todd Button and Feaster:

“That was a very, very difficult draft for us in many ways,” said Feaster, a former Tampa Bay Lightning GM who now holds the title executive director of community hockey development with the club.

The most excruciating call, it would seem, came in the fourth round when the team started giving some real thought to drafting Gaudreau with the 104th overall pick. The pressure was really on because the Flames did not hold a fifth-round pick, making it a now-or-never situation.

“The guy who was very much in (Gaudreau’s) corner and felt we just had to take him was (director of amateur scouting) Tod Button,” Feaster said. “Tod felt very, very strongly about it. He kept saying, ‘I know he’s not very big, but I’m telling you this kid can play and he’s the most exciting player we’ve seen.’

“I said, ‘If you feel that strongly about him as a player, let’s do it right now.’”

- source http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/t...hnny-gaudreau/