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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
There is no consensus at the draft except at the very top end. Would you be surprised to learn that sometimes teams take players in the 1st round that another team doesn't even have on their entire draft list? It happens. Flames liked Jankowski and they weren't the only team. To pretend that they were alone and somehow idiots because of that is a tired and silly narrative.
You said something stupid. I called you out on it. I was not mocking you but certainly the statement you made was deserving of being mocked.
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There is no consensus, but there is logic. If you think I said something stupid, fine. Disagree with me, but jumping directly into insults is not a good method to create discussion. It creates only contempt.
If the Flames are picking 5th or 6th or 7th or whatever and players like Dubois, Tkachuk, Juolevi, Chychrun, etc., are still on the board, and the Flames pick Brown, I will be angry, because that's an unnecessary risk to be taking with all the talent still available. There's a reason why Brown is ranked in the middle of the first round in almost every publication.
I don't think Jankowski is a bad prospect. He's a good prospect. But he was not a wise selection, considering both the position the team was in and the other talent available. The Flames deserve flack for that because they thought they were smarter than everyone else and had tunnel vision for one player. That's what I'm afraid of. I don't think anything I've written here is stupid or worthy of derision.
I said the same thing regarding Bennett and Ritchie in 2014, and took a lot of heat for my position on that as well.