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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
You must love Pronman eh? Similar biases to your own.
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I don't love any single scout's opinion. They all have something useful to reveal.
I do think it's unsurprising Pronman has Keller at 4th, because Pronman values skill and IQ, like I do.
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why I value Skill and IQ? Because the more the Flames have progressed towards valuing skill and IQ, the better-and-better our drafting has gotten. This is what Tod Button had to say in 2012:
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Originally Posted by Tod Button
“We began to change what we were looking for even before that,” said Button, the club’s amateur scouting director. “I know a lot of people give (former GM) Darryl (Sutter) a lot of grief but not for his hockey sense, for the way he treated people. But he recognized after 2006 the game was changing. From when we took Mikael Backlund, it’s been progressing.”
“You can’t always take the same type of player,” Button said. “But it’s more of a priority than taking a big guy who can skate.”
“We’ve embraced the strategy and how we’re doing things, and there’s a thread around hockey sense and character and skill, moreso than skating and size.”
“Hockey sense allows a guy with less of a skill-set in a different area to still succeed,”
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I would be very, very disapointed if our Amateur Scouting under Burkleving suddenly decided to take a step backwards when finally it was starting to takie the gradual step forward that have been missing.
Doesn't mean I can't live with Tkachuk or Brown or anybody else, but only if their skill / hockey sense / character are line with the philosophies they've been cultivating since the Backlund draft that Button constantly points to. I don't think they should weigh size ahead of hockey sense and skill, only use it as a relative tiebreaker. Personally I see Dubois' size as a relative tiebreaker over Keller, but I don't see Tkachuk's skill/IQ at the same level as the other two, and apparently neither does Pronman. I do see Tkachuk's size as a tiebreaker over Nylander though. As Pronman appears to. I also think the margin between 4 thru 14 in this draft is razor thin, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are teams that have Dubois way down at 14. How the order should go is not full of easy choices.