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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Klimchuk has looked okay in the AHL but he hasn't had a sniff with the Flames and I assume he's going to have to wait until he's waiver eligible before the team finally looks at him. I would say he's a bust but the rest certainly were. Monahan was kind of a no-brainer in the 2013 draft but the rest of that draft was a total disaster for the organization. They turned 8 picks (3 in the first round) into one player. That's part of the reason this team is so offensively challenged as they really needed to turn at least 2/3 those first round picks into players.
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To be fair to our scouts that draft just didn't end up being very good outside of the top 10 picks.
The only forwards that really have shown anything outside of the first round of that draft are:
Duclair
Buchnevich
Guentzel
Janmark
Bjorkstrand
Wood
The Poirier pick is the one that hurts but even then there isn't much outside of Burakovsky or Theodore that is interesting after him in the first round.
The pick that is hurting the Flames right now is Bennett. With Bennett's pick it was the right pick at the time & even then Dal Colle, Virtanen, Fleury, & Ritchie haven't been any better but Nylander or Ehlers would make this a much more dynamic forward group though.
The second rounders from that year hurt too - even just from an asset perspective. If Mason MacDonald is Thatcher Demko we easily have a blue chip goalie prospect to shop (Gillies, Demko, Parsons but arguable if we sign Rittich then so maybe a moot point). Brandon Montour would look a lot better than Hunter Smith though, and probably means we don't trade for Hamonic.
The one that I really wish we would have listened to some of the local fans and taken home town kid Brayden Point in the 2nd/3rd that year. I remember there was some chatter around our 3rd round pick of Hickey that the Flames were thinking about it - of course he had to be drafted in the year we decided to prioritize size again. (Although Mathew Phillips WHL points are shockingly similar so maybe, just maybe they redeemed themselves).