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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
And Pastrnak.
A top line right shot RW taken 21 spots after Bennett.
Not saying the Flames should have taken him over Bennett at 4th overall, just saying that it's pretty messed up because Pastrnak would go a long ways towards fixing the scoring woes this Flames team has, and that's where Bennett has failed us unfortunate as it may be.
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Yeah, I agree.
It's about bullets in the chamber. Luck is luck, but look at the Flames 2016 draft:
9 Picks in 7 rounds, 3 picks in the first 2 rounds, 5 picks in the first 4 rounds.
Tkachuk, Parsons, Dube, Fox.
Can't keep shipping out draft picks to get the roster above the water line. Have to bite the bullet at some point, sell for 2 or 3 years, develop quantity of prospects, picks and then make trades to capitalize on value.
Now is not the time, but I would say it might be in arguably as little as 3 years time from now.
The constant through the entire mediocre history of the Flames has been a lack of draft picks.
Not getting more than Phaneuf from the 2003 draft is what killed the roster's chances of being a contender with Iginla and probably whiffing on the Bennett draft will be what stalls out winning with Gaudreau.
Anaheim walked out of the bennett draft with Montour and Ritchie and Kase ("kasha?"). Boston grabbed Pastrnak and their 4th highest scorer this year Heinen. Nashville made out like bandits with Arvidsson and Fiala. Tampa with Point and probably Anthony DeAngelo.
Some of the league's best teams walked out of that draft with key contributors.
It's just a shame.