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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I can say that the team simply dropped the ball on drafting players that fit in this timeline. If they hit on the Poirier, Klimchuk, Witherspoon, or any other players drafted in that timeline they would have been in a predicament as Ferland and maybe another player would have had to be left unprotected. Since they whiffed on those drafts largely and a lot of their roster bottom guys are below average or overpaid they were "lucky". You can argue that unlucky teams simply have better organizational depth than the Flames and I believe there's some truth to that.
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Ok. You can argue that. But I still call it lucky when this is the exact year that the Flames are in this position. If it happened one year from now it would be very different. Also, Kulak and Wotherspoon are both waiver eligible which is partly why they are tough to take. Even if this draft happened last year there is a good chance that one of those two would have been selected.
Also, both Gillies and Jankowski are ages that would normally be available. Because of injury and long development routes, they don't fit the requirements.
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