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Originally Posted by Ashasx

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.

So if the Flames are picking 5th, 6th, or 7th and the Flames take the player that they've spent an entire year determining is the 5th, 6th, or 7th best player available, you will be angry.

There's a reason why Brown is ranked in the middle of the first round in almost every publication.

And? You know where Ryan Johansen was ranked in 2010?

https://www.nhl.com/news/seguin-tops...econd/c-524284

Tenth. He was drafted 4th, and he's probably the 4th or 5th best player in that draft, with two of the other four best players being Russians.

Know where Mark Scheifele was ranked by in 2011? 16th. He was drafted 7th. As of now he's probably becoming the second, third, at worst fourth best player from that draft, and the best player from that draft is Gaudreau himself.

I guess someone needs to go back in time and tell those teams about the talent of Brett Conolly and Sean Couturier.

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.

1) The position of the team has zero bearing on drafting. You draft the eventual best player not the most ready player.
2) What other talent available? Let's work our way down Hertl a 3C, Girgensens a 3/4C, Ceci a defenseman, Wilson a 4th liner, Teravainen an undersized 3C, Vasilevsky a goalie in the first round, Laughton a 3C, Matheson a bottom pair D, Subban a goalie in the first round, and Maata, a defenseman.

That's one player, Maatta, who has established himself as anything to lose sleep over (a lost nap at best) - and he's not even a forward which is what we desperately needed (and still need) in our system at the time with an old Iginla entering the final year of his contract. I guess you'd have preferred we stick to the CSS rankings and draft sixth ranked Codi Ceci instead of Mark Jankowski because Ceci is more talented than Jankowski?