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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
This is a poor way to look at it.
If the Flames had kept the pick their record and place in the standings would almost for sure be different. Therefore the lottery results will be different.
If the ball spits out the Flames with a top pick one should not look at it as that the GM traded that specific pick.
Moreover, I can't grasp how this would be "franchise altering" given they still have the player they traded the pick for.
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I don't agree. The GM traded the pick, full stop. He has to be judged on that, if it ends up as a 1 or 2 pick as a result of the Flames falling that far down the standings then that could be a miss on a potential franchise player, and similar to the Kurvers-Neidermayer scenario. Yes, thats a worst case scenario but it could happen:
https://sports.yahoo.com/toronto-map...174106085.html
"The trade was a horrible miscalculation by Smith, who was fired ahead of the draft, and would haunt the Leafs for more than a decade."